<p>I recently took up a second major so I am going for a BS and a BA (graduating May 2013). I was starting to fill out my grad plans and where it asked what degrees I was getting there was a box that said if you were getting two different degrees like I am then 30 more credits are required. So instead of 120 credits I am supposed to get 150. I talked to people at the records office and they had no idea about it and I am going to try set up a meeting with someone higher up to get some clarification. None of my professors have heard of the requirement either.</p>
<p>I guess my biggest confusion is that I can get all of my major and minor requirements within the required 120, so why 30 unrelated credits (besides the extra cash for the university)? If this ends up being the case I will probably drop a major because I am not going to pay for another year. </p>
<p>Does anyone know if this is a common requirement at your school?</p>
<p>Well I have never heard of 30 units my school does require something around 18 units but it depends on the major/minor. Yeah I would try to get a meeting with an academic adviser and see what they suggest. Good luck</p>
<p>Because it’s 30 degrees for the extra degree. </p>
<p>If you’re double majoring, it’s generally the same amount of credits. Double degrees is something different. I don’t know why, but it seems pretty standard. </p>
<p>I’m getting a BA and a BS, too. Yes, it’s 150 credits. Why don’t you just double major? Why do you need the other degree?</p>
<p>It just seems like something that shouldn’t be REQUIRED since I can get it done within the 120. Seems like a waste of time and money to take a bunch of unrelated courses.</p>
<p>But that’s your school’s policy. Again, I ask, if you just want to do 120 credits, why don’t you just double major? A double degree is a 2nd bachelor’s degree and it has different requirements. 120 is for the FIRST degree and the extra 30 credits is a SECOND degree.</p>
<p>It’s the same as if you were to graduate and come back for a 2nd bachelor’s. Most schools require that you do 30 credits there before getting a 2nd degree.</p>
<p>Double degree just has that. I’m also double degree, and for the two majors and general education requirements that I have, it’s 196 semester hours (49 units: 26 units/104 semester hours for my music major, 10 units/40 semester hours for the history major, 13 units/52 semester hours of gen eds…although I had some of those gen eds done by AP credits and a language placement exam). Plus, I’m taking some extra ones on top of that too…some extra lessons and a few classes, so I think I’ll have about another extra 50-60 semester hours when I’m done (I’m doing this in 5 years by the way, because 4 would be impossible to take extra classes!). I’m considering doing one gen ed class this summer too.</p>
<p>I would guess you go to a private school – a public school would not have such a requirement because public schools want students to graduate as soon as they can (each extra semester for an in-state student = more in-state subsidy spent or less space for other students).</p>
<p>Thanks romanigypsyeyes by the way for the clarifications before. I am still going to look into it more and try to decide if it is worth it. Both majors are art related and I think that is part of the reason I am annoyed, because one just happens to be a bs.</p>
<p>Skyline, I’d be very surprised if you couldn’t just double major somehow rather than going for both degrees (thus sticking to the 120 credits). Make sure you talk to someone who actually knows what they’re doing before anyone tries to make you get both a BA and a BS.</p>
<p>I almost transferred there too! I got intimidated by the size though. I originally wanted to go to school in the cities. Are you from a more southern part?</p>
<p>The first link/pdf yes. That’s the one. At the bottom of the first page.
And I haven’t seen the second form but I was excited when they stopped using papyrus font on the first form but I see it is still alive and well on some of their paperwork. Haha</p>
<p>Well on Tuesday I will check to see if I can double major without the double degree because that would be really nice. I will look over the grad plans sheet and see if that is an option I can select.</p>
<p>Brown required the exact same thing. Unless you really wanted to be able to say you had an ScB in X and an AB in Y (don’t know why you would though), you got the ScB in “X and Y” which allowed you to do it in 4 years. No one outside of the registrar will view these two things differently so just do a double major with one degree in 4 years.</p>
<p>The reason they did this was because, to take my course load for example, my ScB in bio was 20 courses and my AB in Classics was 8. That left me with only 4 courses my entire time at Brown (or 1 per year) that weren’t part of my majors. I didn’t care, which is why I did it in 4 years and technically only have an ScB, but if I spent 5 years I would have had 12 courses outside of my major, or at least 1 every semester, which Brown would have preferred.</p>