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40 unusual facts about bachelor of arts


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)

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

Amiruddaula Islamia Degree College

According to their website, this college was "initially started as an Arabic Madrassah around 1894, became a High School in the year 1916 and an Intermediate College in the year 1942, was elevated in 1991-92, status of Degree College in 1991, started with B.A. classes in 1991-92. setup B.Com classes in 1993-94 and B.Sc. Course with three groups CPM, PCM and ZBC in 1996-97."

Axel Wallengren

At first he studied diligently and received a degree as Bachelor of Arts in 1886.

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.

Edward N. Ney

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

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.

Green Party of Manitoba candidates, 2007 Manitoba provincial election

She has also completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Athabasca University, and at the time of the election was working toward a Master of Arts degree in Adult Education from the University of Calgary and a diploma in Adult Education from St. Francis Xavier University.

Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores

On April 18, 1997, the Group formally changed its trading name from Administraciones Bancarias S.A. to Sociedad A.B. S.A. On January 8, 1998, the Group once again changed its name to Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores S.A. Later that year, Grupo Aval introduced an Online banking platform, which was integrated within the Group's major banking subsidiaries, Banco de Bogotá, Banco de Occidente, Banco Popular and Banco AV Villas.

Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff

Matthews was educated at the University of Paris, graduating in 1844, before going on to study at the University of London, from which he graduated successively BA and LLB.

Herbert O'Conor

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

Hilda Mary Lazarus

Hilda Mary Lazarus B.A., MBBS, FRCS (b: 1890 - d: 1978) was Christian missionary and popular Gynecologist and Obstetrician in India.

James A. Hamilton

He attended Public School No. 32 in Manhattan, and graduated from New York Evening High School in 1892, and B.A. from University of Rochester in 1898.

James Edwin Horton

After a year Horton decided that medicine was not for him and transferred to Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee and gained his B.A. in 1897.

Jeanette I. Sustad

She graduated from Stadium High School in Tacoma, and earned a B.A. degree in sociology at the University of Washington in Seattle in 1943.

Jeff Hooker

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

Johan Jørgen Holst

Holst was educated at Columbia College of Columbia University, where he obtained his A.B. in 1960, and which honored him with its John Jay Award for Distinguished Professional Achievement shortly after his death—the first time the prize had been given posthumously.

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).

Katrina Carlson

Carlson attended college at Brown University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors in International Relations, Foreign Policy and Diplomacy with a focus in Nuclear Arms Control.

Mahadev Govind Ranade

He belonged to Bombay University, one of the three new British universities, and was part of the first batches for both the B.A. (1862) and the LL.B. (Government Law School, 1866) where he graduated at the top of his class.

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.

Quadrivium

At many medieval universities, this would have been the course leading to the degree of Master of Arts (after the BA).

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.

Sree Narayana Guru College of Legal Studies

It offers integrated five-year courses Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Commerce with Bachelor of Laws that is law courses linked with general subjects.

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.

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 O. Seaver

He left Norwich without a degree in 1858, completing his studies at Union College and receiving a B.A. in 1859.

Thomas Phoenix

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

University of Jos

The first students were admitted in January 1972 as pre-degree students with the first Bachelor of Arts degree program begun in October 1973.

Veer Wajekar College

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

Walter Driskill

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

Walter Wyman

He obtained his A.B. degree from Amherst College in Massachusetts in 1870 and then graduated in 1873 from the St. Louis Medical College (now Washington University School of Medicine)

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.


A. F. K. Organski

After World War II, he settled in New York City, where he became an American citizen in 1944 and earned his B.A. (1947), M.A. (1948), and Ph.D. (1951) degrees from New York University.

Abdul Qadir Patel

In 1991 he obtained his B.A. degree from Federal Urdu University where he served as president of Sindh People's Youth, a student wing of Pakistan Peoples Party.

Abel J. Brown

His academic studies, preparatory to entering college, were prosecuted principally in the Male Academy, at Lincolnton, N.C., and his collegiate course was taken in Emory and Henry College, Virginia, from which he was graduated with the degree of A. B., and which afterward conferred up on him the degree of A.M., not merely "in course," but because of his higher attainments in literature.

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.

American Society of Dental Surgeons

Six years later, at a meeting at the home of Solyman Brown B.A., M.A., M.D., D.D.S. at 17 Park Place in New York City, on August 10, 1840, Chapin A. Harris in a motion that "resolved that a National Society be formed." was instrumental in its creation.

Andrew Moravcsik

Moravcsik received a BA in history from Stanford University in 1980 and, after a period working in the US and Asia, spent the next year and a half as a Fulbright Fellow at the Universities of Bielefeld, Hamburg, and Marburg in West Germany.

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.

Arthur Torres

He holds a Bachelor's degree from UC Santa Cruz and a Juris Doctor from University of California, Davis School of Law (King Hall).

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.

Carl Raymond Davis

Born in Krugersdorp, Transvaal in South Africa to American parents, Davis was educated in England at Sherborne School, and Trinity College, Cambridge (Bachelor of Arts) and at McGill University, Montreal (Bachelor of Arts qualifying as a mining engineer).

Claudio Lotito

Lotito earned his High School Diploma in Classics at Ugo Foscolo Classical Lyceum in Albano Laziale and a Bachelor of Arts in Pedagogy cum laude from University of Rome I "La Sapienza".

Deborah Mash

After obtaining her B.A. from Florida State University, she received her Ph.D from the University of Miami School of Medicine in Miami.

Dugald Steer

He completed a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in English literature and philosophy at Bristol University, then completed a TEFL course and lived in Spain for five years.

Education in the Republic of Ireland

Dublin City University's de facto omnibus entry arts degree is offered by St. Patrick's College of Education (a college of DCU) and is titled "BA in Humanities", All Hallows College (a college of DCU) offer BA in Humanities, Theology Pastoral Care, and English.

Emanuel Mac Troutman

Born in Greenwood Township, Pennsylvania, Troutman received an A.B. from Dickinson College in 1934 and an LL.B. from Dickinson School of Law in 1936.

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.

Esther Hall

Born in Manchester in 1970 and brought up in Cheshire, she took A levels in Manchester before training in theatre arts for three years at the University of Leeds's Bretton Hall College where she gained a Bachelor of Arts.

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.

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).

Gregory F. Casagrande

He received a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Finance and Marketing from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, a MS in Accounting from New York University Stern School of Business as well as a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Economics with high distinction from Colgate University.

James M. McPherson

Born in Valley City, North Dakota, he graduated from St. Peter High School, and he received his Bachelor of Arts at Gustavus Adolphus College (St. Peter, Minnesota) in 1958 (from which he graduated magna cum laude), and his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in 1963.

Jenna Stern

Stern graduated from the U.C. Berkeley with a B.A. and received her M.F.A. from NYU Graduate School.

John E. Steele

He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Detroit in 1971 and his J.D. from the University of Detroit College of Law in 1973.

John Ruggie

Ruggie has a BA in politics and history from McMaster University in Canada; a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley; a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) from McMaster; and a Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) from University of Waterloo.

Kora Jahanabad

Dilip Smarak Degree college, about 4 Kilometer far from jahanabad, is mostly known for graduation courses like Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science.

L. Z. Sova

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

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.

Peer Hultberg

He continued his studies of Slavic languages at the University of London and achieved a B.A. in 1963.

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.

Robert Carswell, Baron Carswell

The son of Alan and Nance Carswell was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and Pembroke College, Oxford, where he received a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in classics and law in 1956.

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.

Sybil Mulcahy

Born in Ballsbridge, Dublin, Mulcahy was educated locally before being conferred with a Bachelor of Arts from University College Dublin.

Thomas Ewing Sherman

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

Thomas W. Greelish

He decided to return to school, attending night classes and graduating from Rutgers–Newark in 1967 with a B.A. degree.

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.

Todd Blackledge

Blackledge earned a Bachelor of Arts in speech communication from Penn State in 1983, graduating Phi Beta Kappa with a 3.8 grade point average.

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.