Bachelor's degree

A bachelor's degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts three or four years. (Note that some postgraduate degrees are entitled Bachelor of ..., e.g. the University of Oxford's Bachelor of Civil Law and Bachelor of Philosophy.)

New bachelors' degrees

The Universities of Oxford and Cambridge are perhaps unique today in awarding the B.A. for all undergraduate degrees. However, in many universities over the last hundred years the range of bachelors' degrees has expanded enormously, especially in Australia and New Zealand, where the B.A. degree is increasingly uncommon.

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Australia - New Zealand

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Some of these new degrees and their abbreviations include:

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• A.L.B. — Bachelor of Liberal Arts
• B.A.Sc. — Bachelor of Applied Science
• B.A.S. — Bachelor of Architectural Studies
• B.Arch. — Bachelor of Architecture
• B.B.A. — Bachelor of Business Administration
• B.Ch. — Bachelor of Surgery (also the name of a postgraduate degree in some universities)
• B.Comm. or B.Com. — Bachelor of Commerce
• B.Comp. — Bachelor of Computing
• B.CompSc. or B.CS. — Bachelor of Computer Science
• B.D. — Bachelor of Divinity (also the name of a postgraduate degree in some universities)
• B.Des. — Bachelor of Design (Visual design discipline)
• B.Ec. — Bachelor of Economics
• B.Ed. — Bachelor of Education
• B.E.S. — Bachelor of Environmental Studies
• B.Eng. or B.E. — Bachelor of Engineering
• B.F.A. — Bachelor of Fine Arts
• B.G.S. — Bachelor of General Studies
• B.InfTech. — Bachelor of Information Technology
• B.J. — Bachelor of Journalism (see the University of Missouri-Columbia)
• B.M. or M.B. — Bachelor of Medicine (also the name of a postgraduate degree in some universities)
• B.Math. — Bachelor of Mathematics (also the name of a postgraduate degree in some universities)
• B.Mus. — Bachelor of Music (also the name of a postgraduate degree in some universities)
• B.P.Ed. or B.P.E. — Bachelor of Physical Education
• B.Pharm. — Bachelor of Pharmacy
• B.Phil. — Bachelor of Philosophy (originally a postgraduate degree, but now sometimes used for the name of undergraduate degrees)
• B.R.E. — Bachelor of Religious Education
• B.Tech. — Bachelor of Technology
• B.S. — Bachelor of Surgery (Commonwealth usage, usually as part of a MB BS)
• B.S.E. — Bachelor of Science in Engineering
• B.S.B. — Bachelor of Science in Business
• B.S.E.E. — Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
• B.S.F. — Bachelor of Science in Forestry
• LL.B. (or Ll.B.) — Bachelor of Laws (also the name of a postgraduate degree in some universities)

A full list of British degree abbreviations is also available.

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