BJJ players with advanced degrees

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hey all im working on an assignment for school and wanted to ask, how many of you have advanced degrees/in the process of obtaining an advanced degree or degrees beyond a bachelors degree things like MD degrees lawyers, PAs, physical therapists, MBAs etc im conducting a study and my hypothesis is that many people who train BJJ have an advanced education, my reasoning is that BJJ requires time, dedication, and commitment I believe that these characteristics will show up in other areas of BJJ players lives. I'll go first im currently finishing my bachelors in psychology, minoring in human biology, and have plans to attend medical school. (I just thought id post on here to get a feel for how this study will run, thanks all in advance)
 
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I am in the process of finishing my MBA (full time). I have two undergrad degrees in business and psychology.
 
It'll be interesting to see how your hypothesis holds up. There will be several people listing their degrees but I wonder how many really do compared to the amount of jiu jitsu practitioners as a whole and if it differs from the average for the population.

But for the record I have a masters in biotechnology and am working on a phd in microbiology.
 
I'm a lawyer and occasional law professor. (Saulo was a lawyer and a judge at one time).
 
I'm confident a web-based poll will skew your results towards the college educated crowd and most likely college graduates as well.

As for me, I'm an EE undergrad.

I think gi BJJ, and Judo for that matter, are slow paced enough where they can become a thinking man's sport. An intelligent man should be somewhat successful in bjj as long as he's of average physical talent.

A more interesting study, IMO, would be of the average education of the world's top Bjj players. This might not be as accurate a picture of the Bjj community as you might expect, however, with a major population of bjj players is located in Brazil where it's much rougher to attend university than in the USA. You'd have to take into account the ease of some degree programs as well.

I.E. A psychology degree from a state university shouldn't be held in the same regard as a physics degree from MIT.

Maybe taking a survey of the top 5 players in each weight class nationally would better serve your purpose.
 
thanks for the input IgnorantBloke i may very well do that, im certainly not going to base the results of my study off of sherdog as it is far from scientific and will as you said almost certainly be skewed I just kinda wanted to get a feel for the type of people that train BJJ i couldn't agree more that Judo/BJJ are def a thinking man's game which is why i love the sport, there is always something more to learn and i think that most people who train BJJ enjoy learning on a very fundamental level. Perhaps i will tweak my hypothesis based on your suggestion, thank you very much.
 
more people in wrestling have degrees than in bjj and judo seeing as how high level american wrestling is at university
 
ubbu said:
more people in wrestling have degrees than in bjj and judo seeing as how high level american wrestling is at university
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Going outright and saying "more people in wrestling have degrees" isn't necessarily true, but it is a very valid point that MANY people in wrestling have degrees.

My last instructor has a law degree. Also from Brazil and speaks broken english... I was SO surprised when he told me, haha.
 
C.Beeby said:
Going outright and saying "more people in wrestling have degrees" isn't necessarily true, but it is a very valid point that MANY people in wrestling have degrees.

My last instructor has a law degree. Also from Brazil and speaks broken english... I was SO surprised when he told me, haha.
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I'm studying to be a Control Engineer. Hopefully i'll be, in something like 3 years more.
 
snowolf17 said:
hey all im working on an assignment for school and wanted to ask, how many of you have advanced degrees/in the process of obtaining an advanced degree or degrees beyond a bachelors degree things like MD degrees lawyers, PAs, physical therapists, MBAs etc im conducting a study and my hypothesis is that many people who train BJJ have an advanced education, my reasoning is that BJJ requires time, dedication, and commitment I believe that these characteristics will show up in other areas of BJJ players lives. I'll go first im currently finishing my bachelors in psychology, minoring in human biology, and have plans to attend medical school. (I just thought id post on here to get a feel for how this study will run, thanks all in advance)
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You're conducting a study by posting this question on Sherdog? Are you just curious or is this really a school assignment?
 
this might be a bit too easy since i'm in a university program, but between three hours of Judo and Hapkido last night, we had in attendance:

- a PhD in electrical engineering
- a PhD in Physics (he's an associate with projects at CERN)
- a PhD in mathematics
- a PhD in Aerospace engineering
- a PhD in English
- two grad students in Kinesiology
- two PhD students in Physics

and that's just off the top of my head. we've got club members on internships at places like IBM and Rolls Royce too.
 
RJ Green said:
this might be a bit too easy since i'm in a university program, but between three hours of Judo and Hapkido last night, we had in attendance:

- a PhD in electrical engineering
- a PhD in Physics (he's an associate with projects at CERN)
- a PhD in mathematics
- a PhD in Aerospace engineering
- a PhD in English
- two grad students in Kinesiology
- two PhD students in Physics

and that's just off the top of my head. we've got club members on internships at places like IBM and Rolls Royce too.
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Holy Midgets! If this thread becomes a contest, you win by default.
 
I have a law degree and a Master's degree.

As far as clubs go, I think the record for PhD's and other advanced degrees might be held by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Judo club.
 
I have a AS, a BS, an MBA and just finished applying for another graduate program... In my gym, of the guys I know their backgrounds, one has a Masters in Psych, and 2 others both have Masters degrees in Accounting...
Higher education is pretty common amongst BJJ'rs I guess... ;)
 
jiujitsunoob, no im not conducting the study by posting on sherdog, i just wanted to get an idea of how it will go when i actually run the study, i also want to see if there are any common trends as far as what BJJ players choose to study etc
 
AFAIK of the people at my BJJ academy
1 J.D., 1 D.D.S, and a masters in history (separate people) There are probably more, I live in a fairly affluent area.
 
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