B.S. in Business Admin VS. Bachelors in Business Admin ?
Please explain the difference in the two degrees:
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
and
Bachelor of Business Administration
The Online College I am considering only offers the Bachelor of
Business Administration. If this is not a legitimate or worthwhile
degree, I will reconsider and go with another college.
This is the response from the Dean of the school:
"This particular degree is a
Bachelor of Business Administration. This is different than a BA or BS
in that it focuses totally on business. A Bachelor of Arts (BA) would
have more general education in it, and a Bachelor of Science (BS) would
have more of a science base--i.e. math, lab sciences, etc. Since our
degree is not designed to give you an overall general
education, it is called a BBA since business administration,
and what supports business administration is the main focus.
This does not mean the degree is any less than a BA or BS,
it just has a very specific focus. If you need to have the Bachelor of
Science, then you would need to look at our
computer information degrees, since they are classified as
BS degrees."
A BBA is not a common American degree but would be found in Canada.
The general education requirements would be less.
A BS in BA would be the common American degree. Many states and
accreditors have general education requirements, regardless of the
degree title.
The BA/BS distinction you mention is not a common American distinction.
In Canada the distiction between a BS and BA is much greater. A BS
would require a preponderence of natual science courses.
Well, if the distinction between a BBA, BSBA, and BABA is anything like
the distinction between the MBA, MSBA, and MABA, here goes. The MBA
(let us assume a quarter system) presupposes a non-thesis degree
composed of 45 quarter-credits (15 classes), with ten of those classes
being a general smearing of classes, like three credits each of
managerial accounting, managerial communications, managerial economics,
business ethics, principles of finance, human resources, business law,
marketing management, organization & mannagement, and applied
statistical processes, with five classes left for your major, like
maybe human resources. Your MSBA would be an academic degree,
presupposing a thesis, which might have one-third of the program (five
classes) being a general smearing of business classes and two-thirds of
the program (seven classes and a thesis) devoted to your major. If you
could find a MABA - rare in a culturally illiterate country like the
good old USA - you would actually study business as a liberal art, for
example, there would be a heavier emphasis on business history,
learning the good old classic literature of business theories with
maybe even some good old nineteenth century success manuals thrown in.