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In the United States, there is also another class of degrees called "First Professional degree." These height programs are mediated for professional practice in individual fields rather than academic scholarship. Most professional height programs cause a prior bachelor's degree for admission (a notable exception being the PharmD program), and so Law Enforcement Degree represent at least about five total years of study and as innumerable as seven or eight.

Some fields such as fine art, architecture, or divinity have chosen to denomination their first professional degree after the bachelor's a "master's degree" (e.g., M.F.A., M.Div.) because most of these degrees require at least the completion of a bachelor's extent while the professional degrees in medicine (the M.D.) and command (the J.D.) are doctorates. There is currently some debate in the architectural community to rename the limit to a "doctorate" in the manner that was done for the bylaw degree decades ago. It is important to recognize that first-professional degrees in these fields are contradistinct than research-oriented degrees and comparisons to the Ph.D. are problematic.