<p>Let’s review some rhetoric (sorry to choose your post out of hundreds to redo this :P).</p>
<p>Emory was founded in Oxford, GA as Emory College (it was preceded by something a little different, but that’s a different story). After many years, most of the university moved to Atlanta, despite the original intent to keep all undergraduate education at Oxford. In keeping with that history, that’s why we have Emory College of Arts and Sciences (where Emory would otherwise be redundant) and Oxford College of Emory University. Unfortunately, these get abbreviated to Emory College and Oxford College, which quickly becomes Emory vs. Oxford–implying that one is Emory and the other is not (or, at least, something else). I’d recommend CAS vs. Oxford instead.</p>
<p>You receive an en route Associate of Arts degree (I’m sort of responsible for the current spelling on Emory transcripts, though I’ve pushed for them to consider different names). It will not cause you to melt, catch on fire, get rejected from medical school, or have community college branded on your forehead (or worse yet, date a person of a race your parents find highly objectionable) despite this. In fact, you only have one Emory transcript, which includes both your enrollment at Oxford and at CAS, or the Business School, or the Nursing school, or anything other Emory division you enroll in.</p>
<p>If you transferred after two years to school other than Emory (because Oxford students continuee, not transfer to the College–you wouldn’t say a PhD student who receives an MA en route “transferred” to the PhD program. That’d be silly), you’d still have an Emory degree. In fact, when you arrive at the Atlanta campus, you are already an alumnus or alumna of the university. In fact, I’m an Oxford continuee in the College and I’m in alumni leadership. This definitely has its perks.</p>
<p>When you receive your bachelor’s degree from a division at the Atlanta campus (e.g., College, Business School, Nursing School), it looks exactly the same as everyone else’s who started as freshman in CAS/continued from CAS to that division. Except it looks even better beside the Emory degree you already have from attending Oxford.</p>
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Associate of Arts degree. Associates of Arts is a very common misspelling (even some departments incorrectly list their degrees like this at other schools). My best guess is that it comes from a spoken style of something like “Hey, I got my bachelor’s in math.” The word “degree” is omitted after “bachelor’s” because it is understood. However, this has quickly devolved into nonsensical combinations like, “Masters of Social Work.” Really? There’s more than one of you? Do you use the royal “We” also? :P</p>
<p>One of my favorites is a guy a know who misinterpreted his MS in Psychology as a “Masters in the Science of Psychology.” My other favorite is small, crappy private colleges that grant the AB (Abbreviation for Artium Baccalaureus, Latin for Bachelor of Arts) and then aren’t intelligent enough to realize that their first master’s degree program (that they start in education to try to change from a college to a university) should be AM (Artium Magister. Latin for Master of Arts) and not MA–if they’re going to have parallelism among their degrees. </p>