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23 unusual facts about Bachelor of Arts


1964 NHL Amateur Draft

Dryden made it known to the Bruins that he would elect to play at Cornell University, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree, instead of turning professional.

American Indian College

AIC offers three degree programs: Christian Ministry, in which students may earn either a Bachelor of Arts Degree or an Associate of Arts Degree; Elementary Education, in which students may earn a Bachelor of Arts Degree; and

Cheryl Byron

Byron then obtained a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in English from City College (CUNY) while maintaining her professional life, including becoming in 1976 the first woman to perform her own original brand of poetry in a calypso tent in Trinidad, for which she is recognised as "the mother of Rapso".

Chris Lewington

During his time playing non-league football, Lewington studied at University achieving a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physical Education and Sport.

Clement Pearson Simpson

He received his Bachelor of Arts in 1891, and in 1896 was admitted as a solicitor.

Elisabeth Scott Bocock

In 1969, VCU’s first degree-granting year, Elisabeth Scott Bocock received the first diploma handed out at the commencement ceremony, a Bachelor of Arts in English.

Elizabeth Ho

Ho first studied business at the University of Southern California, but left for a year and returned to enroll in the school's theater program, earning a Bachelor of Arts in theater.

Frank N. Ikard

He earned an Bachelor of Arts in 1936 at the University of Texas in Austin, where he was a member of the honorary men's service organization known as the Texas Cowboys.

Harriet Doerr

She enrolled once again at Stanford, and in 1977, took her BA degree in European history.

Herbert O'Conor

He received his B.A. degree from Loyola College and graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1920.

Jeff Hooker

In 1987 he played his last season for UCLA, but did not complete his bachelor’s degree until 1992.

Jerry Estrin

Estrin received a B.A. in Russian History and Sociology from UCLA in the sixties, an M.A. in English from San Francisco State University in the seventies and an M.A. in Literacy Education from UC Berkeley in 1992.

John Cottisford

He was educated at Lincoln College, taking the degrees of B.A. in 1505, M.A. in 1510, and D.D. in 1525 (3 July).

Miodrag Perišić

He received a BA degree in philosophy at Belgrade University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Philosophy.

Nathan Gregory Silvermaster

He emigrated to the United States and earned his B.A. from the University of Washington in Seattle (where he was “stated to be a known Communist”) and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, where his thesis was entitled Lenin’s Economic Thought Prior to the October Revolution.

New Democratic Party of Manitoba candidates, 2003 Manitoba provincial election

McDonald has a Bachelor of Arts degree in early years' education (1991), a Master of Arts degree in curriculum development (1994) and an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in education from the University of Manitoba (2003).

Preston E. Peden

Following his public school education, he attended the University of Oklahoma at Norman, Oklahoma, receiving his A.B. in 1936, and from the law school of the same university, his LL.B. in 1939.

Richard Harison

He graduated A.B. from King's College in 1764.

Sarah Anne Curzon

Sarah Anne Curzon's daughter was one of the first females to receive a B.A. from the University of Toronto.

Theodore Marcus Hansen

By applying credits he earned at Dana, Trinity, and Maywood, Hansen was able to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in one year from Saint Olaf College.

University Centre Peterborough

All courses offered by the university centre are validated by Anglia Ruskin University and include HNCs, HNDs and BA honours degrees.

Veer Wajekar College

Veer Wajekar College offers graduation courses in Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Science.

William Loren Katz

A graduate of both Syracuse University (1950, with a BA in history) and New York University (1952, with an MA in Secondary Education), Katz taught in the New York City and State secondary education systems for 14 years.


ABRS Management and Technology Institute

University of Greenwich: BSc (Hons) in Computing (since 2000), BA (Hons) Accounting and Finance (since 2004), BA (Hons) in Business Administration (since 2007), Master in Information Systems Management (since 2005), MSc in Finance and Investment Analysis (since 2009)

Alfred Bailey

Born in Quebec City, Quebec, the son of Professor Loring Woart Bailey and Ernestine Valiant (Gale) Bailey, he received his BA degree in 1927 from the University of New Brunswick (UNB).

Allen Sharp

Born in Washington, D.C., Sharp received a B.A. from Indiana State University in 1953, a J.D. from Indiana University School of Law in 1957, and later received a M.A. from Butler University in 1986.

Arthur Stephen Lane

Born in Arlington, Massachusetts, Lane received a B.A. from Princeton University in 1934, where he received the Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, Princeton's highest undergraduate honor.

Benson Everett Legg

After receiving his education at the preparatory school Gilman School in Baltimore, graduating in the class of 1966, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University in 1970.

Doric de Souza

Born to Goan ournalist Armand de Souza, who was the editor of the Morning Leader and a founding member of the Ceylon National Congress, Doric was educated at as a young child at St Bridgets Convent, and then at St. Joseph's College, Colombo as well the University College, Colombo where he graduated with a BA honours in English.

Edward N. Ney

After the war, he returned to Amherst and received his B.A. in 1946.

Ernesto Nieto

Nieto later transferred to Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Education in 1964 with a specialization in special education.

Francis Alexander Anglin

Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, one of 9 children of Parliamentarian Timothy Anglin, and elder brother to the renowned stage actress, Margaret Anglin, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Ottawa in 1887.

G. Warren Nutter

After serving in U.S. Army Intelligence after the fall of Nazi Germany, he returned to finish his studies at the University of Chicago where he earned his B.A. (1946), M.A. (1948), and Ph.D. (1949) in economics, which he studied with Milton Friedman and Frank Knight.

George Hugh Bourne

Bourne was the son of the Revd R. B. Bourne and was educated at Eton College and at Christ Church, Oxford (BA 1863, BCL 1866, DCL 1871).

John Merlin Powis Smith

While attending college in Iowa, Smith also taught introductory Greek, and after earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1893, taught Greek at Cedar Valley Seminary in Osage, Iowa.

Kenneth Zebrowski, Jr.

Zebrowski graduated from Clarkstown Schools before receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree (Magna cum Laude) in political science from the State University of New York at Albany and his Juris Doctor degree from the Seton Hall University School of Law.

L. Z. Sova

BA in English language from the Kharkov State Courses for Foreign Languages (1958)

Lee Roy West

Born in Clayton, Oklahoma, West received a B.A. from the University of Oklahoma in 1952, and was a Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean War, from 1952 to 1956 (in active service from 1952 to 1954).

Malmömässan

In the early 1990s MalmöMässan AB, earlier based in Stadionområdet ("The stadium area", where Malmö Stadion and Malmö Isstadion are located), relocated there.

Marsha Petrie Sue

Marsha Petrie Sue holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Home Economics from the California State University at Long Beach, as well as a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Phoenix from which she graduated magna cum laude.

Mary Koga

She concentrated on social work, however, and received a BA in 1942 from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master's degree in 1947 from the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration.

Mlađan Dinkić

He graduated from the First Economy highschool in Belgrade in 1983 and obtained his B.A. at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Economics in 1988 and his M.Sc. in 1993.

Neil L. Rudenstine

He studied the humanities at Princeton University (A.B. 1956) and participated in Army R.O.T.C. After serving in the U.S. Army as an artillery officer he attended New College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar, where he received another B.A. and an M.A. In 1964, he received a Ph.D. in English literature from Harvard for thesis titled Sir Philip Sidney: The Styles of Love.

Paul Sprenger

Sprenger earned a B.A. from the University of Michigan School of Business Administration in 1962 and his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1965.

Petrus Apianus

When the plague broke out in Vienna in 1521, he completed his studies with a B.A. and moved to Regensburg and then to Landshut.

Richard Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 4th Baron Acton

The oldest son of John Lyon-Dalberg-Acton and Daphne Strutt, daughter of Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, he was educated at St George's College, Harare in Zimbabwe and at Trinity College, Oxford, from which he emerged with a Bachelor of Arts in 1963 (later, he would receive a Master of Arts from the same institution).

Robert Ackman

Born in Dorchester, New Brunswick, his education included a Bachelor of Arts in organic chemistry from the University of Toronto received in 1950, a Master of Science in organic chemistry from Dalhousie University received in 1952, a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of London received in 1956, and a D.I.C. in organic chemistry from Imperial College London.

Robin Janvrin, Baron Janvrin

He was educated at Marlborough College, Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and Brasenose College, Oxford from which he received a first class bachelor's degree in 1969, and of which he was made an Honorary Fellow in 1999.

Rupert Taylor

He was educated at the progressive independent Dartington Hall School in Devon and completed a BA degree in Politics and Government at the University of Kent in 1980, followed by an MSc at the London School of Economics in 1981 and a PhD in Sociology at Kent, completed in 1986.

Sandy D'Alemberte

In 1955, he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science with honors from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee and also attended summer school at Florida State University and the University of Virginia.

Sarah MacKenzie

Mac received her Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Minnesota and her Juris Doctor degree from Duke University, and was subsequently stationed in Bosnia during the war there.

Sarah Myerscough

She then gained a BTEC Foundation National Diploma in Art and Design at Blackpool and The Fylde College in 1999 and spent the next three years at Lancaster University where, in 2002, she gained a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Fine art: Practice and Theory.

Simon Hornblower

Born in 1949, he was educated at Eton College, where he was a scholar, at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in 1969, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took first-class honours in Literae Humaniores in 1971 (BA and hence subsequently MA) and a DPhil in 1978 with a thesis entitled Maussollos of Karia.

Thomas Baily

-- Catholic Encyclopedia had "Glare Hall", probably typo, though Clare Hall didn't exist until 1966 -->, Cambridge, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1546.

Thomas Ewing Sherman

Tom attended the preparatory department of Georgetown College and graduated with a B.A. degree from that institution in 1874.

Thomas Phoenix

Phoenix graduated A.B. from Columbia College in 1795.

Tim Atkin

Atkin holds a BA from Durham University in Modern Languages and a Masters degree from the London School of Economics in European Studies.

Tonman Mosley, 1st Baron Anslow

He was educated at Repton School, Repton, Derbyshire, between 1862 and 1868, and at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, between 1868 and 1971 and graduated from the University of Oxford in 1872 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Tony Shipley

Born in Blountville, Tennessee, Shipley is a graduate of Sullivan Central High School and also a 1976 graduate of the University of Tennessee with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

U. Narayan Bhat

He received a B.A. in mathematics (1953) and B.T. in education (1954) from the University of Madras, an M.A. in statistics (1958) from Karnatak University in Dharwar and Ph.D. in Mathematical statistics from the University of Western Australia on the dissertation Some Simple and Bulk Queueing Systems: A Study of Their Transient Behavior (1965).

Wahid Baksh Sial Rabbani

He completed his B.A. and then joined the Bahwalpur State Forces and qualified at the Indian Military Academy Dehra Dun (India) in 1933.

Walter Driskill

Driskill earned his Bachelor's in history from the University of Colorado in 1936 and his Master's in history in 1940.

William C. Bilo

Bilo completed a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History from Cameron University, and a Master's Degree in Business and Public Administration from Southeastern University.