A curious graduation requirement

<p>Why would Brown care about you taking extra courses outside your majors (other than you paying extra tuition), since Brown has no breadth requirements?</p>

<p>I think it’s an accreditation issue. A second bachelor’s degree must be, at minimum, 30 semester hours beyond the first.</p>

<p>Well, I am certainly much more at ease about all this now. Thanks everyone!</p>

<p>Also Brown doesn’t like the idea that your majors could require 28/32 courses you take in 4 years and would rather you use the open curriculum to explore more so making you take a 5th year means you can take at least one course every semester that doesn’t count towards either of your majors instead of one course every year.</p>

<p>It can’t JUST be an accreditation issue since two ABs in 4 years is allowed.</p>

<p>2 BAs or a double major? What would be the purpose of two BAs?</p>

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<p>Berkeley is regionally accredited but does not require 30 extra credits for simultaneous degrees (two majors in different divisions, resulting in, for example, a BA in one major and a BS in another major):</p>

<p>[Office</a> of Undergraduate Advising: Double Majors and Simultaneous Degrees](<a href=“http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/major/double.html]Office”>http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/major/double.html)</p>

<p>Those with more than one major may be allowed to take slightly more credits or an extra semester, but are not required to do so.</p>

<p>I should have gone to Berkeley! Haha
And I am submitting my grad plans today so I will let folks know how that goes once I hear back.</p>