<p>I feel like there’s gotta be at least some prestige advantage to the BS over BA. Otherwise…what is the purpose of doing a BS? If the BA just means less restrictive course requirements… why would you subject yourself to that if it doesn’t matter? Unless you just so happened to want to take whatever extra course/courses are required…in which case… you can do that with a BA as well… so essentially… if this is the true situation… and both are viewed as equally rigorous… they wouldn’t need to differentiate the two degrees and only a BS or only a BA would exist. </p>