What is a baccalaureate college?

b_r_um
Mon, 25 May 2009 13:16:41 +0000

what is the difference between baccalaureate degree and Bachelor’s degree?

They are the same - just one word is closer to the Latin root than the other. The word “baccalaureate degree” is usually used to refer to the class of all 4-year undergraduate degrees to distinguish that degree from a PhD or a high school diploma (e.g. one could say that a graduate fellowship requires a baccalaureate degree), and the word “Bachelor’s degree” is used both for the type of degree and one specific instance of it (a “Bachelor of Science in Microbiology” from the University of Minnesota).

But they are actually the same. A few college try to be fancy and call their degrees AB instead of BA, because they use the Latin version and the word order is different in Latin. But really, it’s all the same.