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Re:Mauna Loa eruption underway; lava currently contained to ... by pacaro on Monday November 28, 2022 @04:08PM (#33779664)
That depends a lot on the issuing university. At some of the medieval university, e.g. Cambridge, the only undergraduate degree is a BA, regardless of subject. Likely because the naming of the degree predates the modern usage of the word science.

Few would argue that a BA in physics (which would actually be in Natural Sciences) from Cambridge is "less rigorous"

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Re:Mauna Loa eruption underway; lava currently contained to ... by dcminter on Monday November 28, 2022 @04:25PM (#33779936)
Cambridge and Oxford and a few others also then grant students an MA more or less automatically¹ a handful of years after graduation², a process sometimes referred to jocularly as the "MA for FA"!

¹ There's a fee...

² https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Arts_(Oxford,_Camb...

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Re:Mauna Loa eruption underway; lava currently contained to ... by mmmpop on Monday November 28, 2022 @04:41PM (#33780188)
Sir you owe me a new pince nez because mine just shot across the room.
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Re:Mauna Loa eruption underway; lava currently contained to ... by mmmpop on Monday November 28, 2022 @04:15PM (#33779800)
Sure, that's "old-fashioned" as a friend once told me (who was a Rhodes scholar.) At the two universities I've attended, the B.S. in physics required more rigor and the B.A. offered more breadth and didn't require as many courses starting in "PHY". I'm guessing it's an American thing too.
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