<p>"The Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree offers a broad-based program, with less major hours and more elective hours. </p>
<p>The Bachelor of Science (BS) degree is designed to give the student a stronger technical background with more math and science hours and less elective hours which results in a more concentrated major. It gives a firm foundation for highly technical graduate programs.<br>
The BA degree permits the maximum flexibility within a program, while the BS degree is more focused in its requirements.<br>
Some students prefer the BA degree, as it allows a sampling of a variety of fields and the opportunity to design a unique combination of courses. Other students choose the BS degree because it is more specialized. There is no one rule or standard opinion as to which degree program is better. "</p>
<p>just get your degree in whatever you want. apply to grad school if it is in your plans. don’t worry about something as trivial as the difference between a BA and a BS. it isn’t going to be qualification that gets you in or gets you rejected from the school you’re applying to. and yes, this is trivial. a degree is a degree. in the end you have to show the grad school your transcript, right? they’ll know the courses you took, and they’ll have a good idea of how rigorous your school is. like i said, don’t worry about this stuff.</p>
<p>It’s really just symantecs by the school. At my college all degrees awarded by Arts and Sciences are BAs. All degrees from business are BS and almost all degrees from engineering are BS (you can get a BA in a few subjects, but its seen as engineering lite). At some schools I looked at the difference between a BA and a BS for most science degrees is some extra math and science required for a BS. If you are getting a degree, it doesn’t matter if it’s a BA or a BS (though for jumping into the workforce for science it probably looks better to have a BS). For most people it just boils down to whether you choose to take an extra year of physics or an extra year of history.</p>
<p>An undergraduate Literature degree at MIT will be a Bachelor of Sciences.
An undergraduate Mech Engr degree at many LACs will be a Bachelor of Arts.</p>
<p>A large company will not care, because they know the distinction depends only on the school that awards it.
A graduate school will not care, because they want to see your transcript, and their members will probably have friends familiar with your school.
The people who care are not professionally concerned with this, and they account for many posts in this thread.</p>