<p>Hi,
I'm a community college student in California, and I want to study Molecular Biology. The only problem is that the University that I intend on transferring to gives a B.A. in Molecular Biology. Now I was intending to get a B.S. degree...Now what difference would it make if I got a B.A. and not a B.S. in a science major?</p>
<p>does anyone have any idea about this???
THanks</p>
<p>It probably doesn’t make any difference. Many top colleges and universities offer only the BA in that field.</p>
<p>In the case of schools that offer both a BA and a BS in a particular science major, the differences between these degrees usually come down to either requiring a somewhat greater number of courses in the major for the BS or requiring additional courses in supporting departments, e.g., requiring additional terms of organic chemistry or a course in physical cemistry or additional terms of math. Sometimes, the distinction is between whether or not a major completes a undergrad thesis.</p>
<p>At schools that offer both degrees for a particular science major, the BA option often gives more flexibility (since it may require fewer courses) for a student who does not plan grad study in that field or who wishes to combine it with another major, or simply to have more leeway to take unrelated courses of interest, etc. At the undergrad level, students complete a particular major for a variety of different reasons and a department often designs the structure and requirements for a particular major with this in mind.</p>
<p>You can always elect additional courses in the major or in supporting fields, whether or not the major requires these. </p>
<p>Getting a BA instead of a BS doesn’t necessarily make your major less “sciencey”, just because the title of the degree doesn’t include the word, “science”.</p>