<p>^That’s sometimes right. Normally though, if a single school offers both a BA and a BS in econ then the BS will be the more rigorous one.</p>
<p>The United States and Canada are the only two countries I can think of where it’s common for economics degrees to be classified as BA rather than BS or BSc. Still, the North American BA Econ degrees are generally less quantitative than European BSc Econ degrees. North Americans with BA degrees in economics who want to go on to graduate school for economics typically need to supplement their major with extra math courses and econometrics courses in order to give their grad school application a reasonable chance of success.</p>