Scottish degrees

[Beth Shuster]

On 23 Feb 1996 17:18:48 GMT, Hilary Bates <hbates at amgen.com> wrote:

>All first degrees at Oxford (and Cambridge) are BA, regardless of
>subject. (Even engineering!) It's for historic reasons, dating from
>the days when only arts subjects were studied.

This is also true at some U.S. liberal arts colleges.  My undergraduate
degree in Biochemistry was a B.A. (actually, since the diploma was in
Latin, it's officially an A.B.!).

Beth



Beth Shuster
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