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29 unusual facts about Bachelor of Arts


1964 NHL Amateur Draft

Dryden made it known to the Bruins that he would elect to play at Cornell University, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree, instead of turning professional.

American Indian College

AIC offers three degree programs: Christian Ministry, in which students may earn either a Bachelor of Arts Degree or an Associate of Arts Degree; Elementary Education, in which students may earn a Bachelor of Arts Degree; and

American Society of Dental Surgeons

Six years later, at a meeting at the home of Solyman Brown B.A., M.A., M.D., D.D.S. at 17 Park Place in New York City, on August 10, 1840, Chapin A. Harris in a motion that "resolved that a National Society be formed." was instrumental in its creation.

Cheryl Byron

Byron then obtained a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in English from City College (CUNY) while maintaining her professional life, including becoming in 1976 the first woman to perform her own original brand of poetry in a calypso tent in Trinidad, for which she is recognised as "the mother of Rapso".

Chris Lewington

During his time playing non-league football, Lewington studied at University achieving a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physical Education and Sport.

Clement Pearson Simpson

He received his Bachelor of Arts in 1891, and in 1896 was admitted as a solicitor.

Elisabeth Scott Bocock

In 1969, VCU’s first degree-granting year, Elisabeth Scott Bocock received the first diploma handed out at the commencement ceremony, a Bachelor of Arts in English.

Frank N. Ikard

He earned an Bachelor of Arts in 1936 at the University of Texas in Austin, where he was a member of the honorary men's service organization known as the Texas Cowboys.

Green Party of Manitoba candidates, 2007 Manitoba provincial election

She has also completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Athabasca University, and at the time of the election was working toward a Master of Arts degree in Adult Education from the University of Calgary and a diploma in Adult Education from St. Francis Xavier University.

Harriet Doerr

She enrolled once again at Stanford, and in 1977, took her BA degree in European history.

Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff

Matthews was educated at the University of Paris, graduating in 1844, before going on to study at the University of London, from which he graduated successively BA and LLB.

Herbert O'Conor

He received his B.A. degree from Loyola College and graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1920.

Hilda Mary Lazarus

Hilda Mary Lazarus B.A., MBBS, FRCS (b: 1890 - d: 1978) was Christian missionary and popular Gynecologist and Obstetrician in India.

Jerry Estrin

Estrin received a B.A. in Russian History and Sociology from UCLA in the sixties, an M.A. in English from San Francisco State University in the seventies and an M.A. in Literacy Education from UC Berkeley in 1992.

Johan Jørgen Holst

Holst was educated at Columbia College of Columbia University, where he obtained his A.B. in 1960, and which honored him with its John Jay Award for Distinguished Professional Achievement shortly after his death—the first time the prize had been given posthumously.

Kathi Goertzen

Kathi Goertzen graduated in 1980 from WSU with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications from the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication.

Kora Jahanabad

Dilip Smarak Degree college, about 4 Kilometer far from jahanabad, is mostly known for graduation courses like Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science.

Leslie Orgel

Born in London, England, Orgel received his Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry with first class honours from the University of Oxford in 1949.

Mahadev Govind Ranade

He belonged to Bombay University, one of the three new British universities, and was part of the first batches for both the B.A. (1862) and the LL.B. (Government Law School, 1866) where he graduated at the top of his class.

Nicholas Quemerford

He was born in the city of Waterford in Ireland about 1544, and took the degree of BA at Oxford in 1562, after he had spent at least four years in that university in pecking and hewing at logic and philosophy.

Richard Harison

He graduated A.B. from King's College in 1764.

Samuel Frederick Hildebrand

In 1910 he received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Indiana State Normal School and became a research associate at the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries in Washington, D.C., where he remained until 1914.

Sree Narayana Guru College of Legal Studies

It offers integrated five-year courses Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Commerce with Bachelor of Laws that is law courses linked with general subjects.

Taunggyi University

Taunggyi University's main offerings are Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees although it reportedly also offers some master's and doctorate level degrees.

Theodore Marcus Hansen

By applying credits he earned at Dana, Trinity, and Maywood, Hansen was able to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in one year from Saint Olaf College.

Thomas Ewing Sherman

Tom attended the preparatory department of Georgetown College and graduated with a B.A. degree from that institution in 1874.

Veer Wajekar College

Veer Wajekar College offers graduation courses in Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Science.

Wahid Baksh Sial Rabbani

He completed his B.A. and then joined the Bahwalpur State Forces and qualified at the Indian Military Academy Dehra Dun (India) in 1933.

Walter Wyman

He obtained his A.B. degree from Amherst College in Massachusetts in 1870 and then graduated in 1873 from the St. Louis Medical College (now Washington University School of Medicine)


Abdul Qadir Patel

In 1991 he obtained his B.A. degree from Federal Urdu University where he served as president of Sindh People's Youth, a student wing of Pakistan Peoples Party.

Andrew Moravcsik

Moravcsik received a BA in history from Stanford University in 1980 and, after a period working in the US and Asia, spent the next year and a half as a Fulbright Fellow at the Universities of Bielefeld, Hamburg, and Marburg in West Germany.

Anton Buttigieg

He was educated at the Government Primary School, Qala (from 1916 to 1922), the Gozo Seminary (from 1923 to 1927), St Aloysius' College Malta (from 1928 to 1930) and the University of Malta, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1934, and Doctor of Laws in 1940.

Arthur Stephen Lane

Born in Arlington, Massachusetts, Lane received a B.A. from Princeton University in 1934, where he received the Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, Princeton's highest undergraduate honor.

Axel Wallengren

At first he studied diligently and received a degree as Bachelor of Arts in 1886.

Billy Timmins

He was educated at Patrician College, Ballyfin, County Laois; and University College Galway where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Legal Science, and at the Military College, Curragh.

C. Fred Bergsten

Bergsten received a BA from Central Methodist University, during which time he was valedictorian of his class and a championship debater, and then earned MA, MALD, and PhD degrees from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Chris Korwin-Kuczynski

He was born Chris Korwin-Kuczynski in Toronto, and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from York University.

Ciro Rodriguez

He graduated with his entering class from Harlandale High School and then briefly attended San Antonio College, but subsequently graduated from St. Mary’s University with a B.A. in Political Science.

Claudio Lotito

Lotito earned his High School Diploma in Classics at Ugo Foscolo Classical Lyceum in Albano Laziale and a Bachelor of Arts in Pedagogy cum laude from University of Rome I "La Sapienza".

Connie Bernardy

She later attended the University of Minnesota, graduating with a B.A. in communication studies, and also the University of St. Thomas, graduating with an M.B.A. certification in government acquisitions and contract management.

Debra Ann Livingston

Livingston was born in Waycross, Georgia, and received a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1980 and a Juris doctor from Harvard Law School in 1984, where she served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Donald E. Wilkes Jr.

A graduate of the University of Florida (B.A., 1965; J.D., 1969) Wilkes became Professor of Law at the University of Georgia in 1971, a post he has held ever since.

Ernesto Nieto

Nieto later transferred to Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Education in 1964 with a specialization in special education.

Esther Hall

Born in Manchester in 1970 and brought up in Cheshire, she took A levels in Manchester before training in theatre arts for three years at the University of Leeds's Bretton Hall College where she gained a Bachelor of Arts.

Francis Alexander Anglin

Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, one of 9 children of Parliamentarian Timothy Anglin, and elder brother to the renowned stage actress, Margaret Anglin, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Ottawa in 1887.

G. L. S. Shackle

Later becoming a teacher, he studied in his own time for a University of London B.A. degree which he took in 1931.

George Hugh Bourne

Bourne was the son of the Revd R. B. Bourne and was educated at Eton College and at Christ Church, Oxford (BA 1863, BCL 1866, DCL 1871).

George P. Schiavelli

Born in Miami Beach, Florida, Schiavelli received an A.B. from Stanford University in 1970 and a J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law in 1974.

Imperial Federation League

; The Imperial Federation League in Victoria after Australian Federation (B.A. Hons thesis, Monash University, 1979)

James A. Hamilton

He attended Public School No. 32 in Manhattan, and graduated from New York Evening High School in 1892, and B.A. from University of Rochester in 1898.

James M. McPherson

Born in Valley City, North Dakota, he graduated from St. Peter High School, and he received his Bachelor of Arts at Gustavus Adolphus College (St. Peter, Minnesota) in 1958 (from which he graduated magna cum laude), and his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in 1963.

Jean Lambert

Lambert gained a BA in Modern Languages in 1971 from University College, Cardiff, before taking a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) from St Pauls' College (Francis Close Hall), Cheltenham (now the University of Gloucestershire) and gaining an ADB (Ed.) in 1975.

Jeanette I. Sustad

She graduated from Stadium High School in Tacoma, and earned a B.A. degree in sociology at the University of Washington in Seattle in 1943.

Jenna Stern

Stern graduated from the U.C. Berkeley with a B.A. and received her M.F.A. from NYU Graduate School.

John Merlin Powis Smith

While attending college in Iowa, Smith also taught introductory Greek, and after earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1893, taught Greek at Cedar Valley Seminary in Osage, Iowa.

L. Z. Sova

BA in English language from the Kharkov State Courses for Foreign Languages (1958)

Mlađan Dinkić

He graduated from the First Economy highschool in Belgrade in 1983 and obtained his B.A. at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Economics in 1988 and his M.Sc. in 1993.

Neil L. Rudenstine

He studied the humanities at Princeton University (A.B. 1956) and participated in Army R.O.T.C. After serving in the U.S. Army as an artillery officer he attended New College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar, where he received another B.A. and an M.A. In 1964, he received a Ph.D. in English literature from Harvard for thesis titled Sir Philip Sidney: The Styles of Love.

Petrus Apianus

When the plague broke out in Vienna in 1521, he completed his studies with a B.A. and moved to Regensburg and then to Landshut.

Pir Ilahi Bux

Deeply moved by the Khilafat Movement, led by Maulana Mohammad Ali Jouhar, he soon left Aligarh Muslim University and joined Jamia Millia Islamia headed by Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar and did his B.A. from there.

Preston E. Peden

Following his public school education, he attended the University of Oklahoma at Norman, Oklahoma, receiving his A.B. in 1936, and from the law school of the same university, his LL.B. in 1939.

Richard Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 4th Baron Acton

The oldest son of John Lyon-Dalberg-Acton and Daphne Strutt, daughter of Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, he was educated at St George's College, Harare in Zimbabwe and at Trinity College, Oxford, from which he emerged with a Bachelor of Arts in 1963 (later, he would receive a Master of Arts from the same institution).

Robin Janvrin, Baron Janvrin

He was educated at Marlborough College, Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and Brasenose College, Oxford from which he received a first class bachelor's degree in 1969, and of which he was made an Honorary Fellow in 1999.

Ron Dart

Ronald Samuel Dart (born 1950, Toronto), BA (Lethbridge); DCS, MCS (Regent College), MA (UBC), PhD studies at McMaster University, is a university professor, author, and ACC mountaineer.

Sandy D'Alemberte

In 1955, he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science with honors from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee and also attended summer school at Florida State University and the University of Virginia.

Sarah MacKenzie

Mac received her Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Minnesota and her Juris Doctor degree from Duke University, and was subsequently stationed in Bosnia during the war there.

Thomas Baily

-- Catholic Encyclopedia had "Glare Hall", probably typo, though Clare Hall didn't exist until 1966 -->, Cambridge, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1546.

Thomas O. Seaver

He left Norwich without a degree in 1858, completing his studies at Union College and receiving a B.A. in 1859.

Tonman Mosley, 1st Baron Anslow

He was educated at Repton School, Repton, Derbyshire, between 1862 and 1868, and at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, between 1868 and 1971 and graduated from the University of Oxford in 1872 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

University Centre Peterborough

All courses offered by the university centre are validated by Anglia Ruskin University and include HNCs, HNDs and BA honours degrees.

Walter Driskill

Driskill earned his Bachelor's in history from the University of Colorado in 1936 and his Master's in history in 1940.

Winston Saunders

Having attended the Bahamas Teachers’ College, Saunders obtained a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Classics from the University of London in 1964.