[haldujai]

Interesting, I didn't know that either. If I was hiring I would have assumed the candidate completed additional studies especially if the date of graduation was what appears to be 3 years after graduation (btw matriculation is start date not graduation).

@emadm the wikipedia article you link to explains why it's misleading.

[emadm]

Not really I always used MA (Oxon) as appropriate in my resumes and similar. You don't call it a BA.

I think the thing here is also intention given this is a weird thing, it would make 0 difference in anything I do for me to have tried to mislead folk that I did a masters degree.

I worked as an enterprise dev in my gap year for Metaswitch doing low level programming <= this for example is far more relevant experience.

For the role of an AI CEO typical qualification is actually dropping out tbh

[haldujai]

Apologies, I didn't notice the commenter I replied to used "deliberate". I don't think you're being deliberately misleading or have ill intentions given that this is in fact how it works at Oxford/Cambridge.

My comment was meant to convey that I think this convention is misleading in general. If I was reviewing a stack of resumes from not otherwise noteworthy or qualified individuals I would have assumed the MA candidate had graduate level education as I'm unfamiliar with this convention, the Wikipedia article has some survey data regarding this.

I also agree it's irrelevant in your specific case, I honestly didn't even know if you had graduated or from where before this post and this detail doesn't change my opinion of your qualifications.