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United Kingdom
See also: British undergraduate degree classification
The bachelor’s degree is the standard undergraduate degree in the United Kingdom, with the most common degrees being the Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Bachelor of Science (BSc). Most bachelor’s degree courses (apart from the very rare postgraduate awards, and those in medicine, dentistry and veterinary science) lead to honours degrees, with ordinary degrees generally only being awarded to those who do not meet the required pass mark for an honours degree. With the exception of the postgraduate bachelor’s degrees and bachelor’s degrees in medicine, dentistry and veterinary science, UK bachelor’s degrees (whether honours or non-honours) are first cycle (end of cycle) qualifications under the Bologna Process. Postgraduate bachelor’s degrees and bachelor’s degrees in medicine, dentistry and veterinary science are second cycle (end of cycle) qualifications. Some bachelor’s degrees in medicine, dentistry and veterinary science offer intercalated degrees en route to the final qualification.
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Bachelor’s degrees should not be confused with baccalaureate qualifications, which derive their name from the same root. In the UK, baccalaureate qualifications, e.g. International Baccalaureate, Welsh Baccalaureate, English Baccalaureate, are gained at secondary schools rather than being degree-level qualifications.
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Until the 19th century, a bachelor’s degree represented the first degree in a particular faculty, with Arts representing undergraduate study, thus the Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) at Oxford and the Bachelor of Laws (LLB) at Cambridge, for example, were postgraduate degrees. Vestiges of this system still remain in the ancient universities, with Oxford and Cambridge awarding BAs for undergraduate degrees in both arts and sciences (although both award undergraduate BTh degrees through associated theological colleges, and Oxford awards BFA degrees in addition to the BA) and defining other bachelor’s degrees (e.g., BPhil, BCL) as postgraduate awards equivalent to master’s degrees,although many postgraduate bachelor’s degrees have now been replaced by equivalent master’s degrees (e.g., LLM for the LLB at Cambridge and MSc for the BSc at Oxford). The same historical usage of indicating an undergraduate degree by it being in the faculty of arts rather than being a bachelor’s degree gives rise to the Oxbridge MA and the Scottish MA). # ISO certification in India
Common bachelor’s degrees and abbreviations:
- Bachelor of Arts: BA
- Bachelor of Science: BSc
- Bachelor of Laws: LLB
- Bachelor of Civil Law: BCL
- Bachelor of Engineering: BEng
- Bachelor of Education: BEd
- Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery: MBBS, MBBCh, BMBS, BMBCh
- Bachelor of Dental Surgery: BDS
See also: British degree abbreviations
