BA or BSc?

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It doesn't matter diddly-squat.

I have a BA in Systems Analysis. Which is a BA because of the level of social and other "softer" skills required to be an effective business/systems analyst. But also involves other skills (final-year modules were: HCI, Temporal Databases (they were all the rage), OO design, Mathematics, Knowledge Elictation, Systems Design, Accounting and Economics).

Since then I've worked as a consultant (on Y2K projects), a business analyst, an analyst programmer, a programmer (C++, Java), and now I'm doing various complex things in a quants department.

The subject, the grade, where it was obtained, what your final year dissertation was on, the final year modules, and any other skills you have come above what type of degree it is (which in some cases, as mine, seems purely arbitrary and could well be either).

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I wouldn't worry about it Nix. Employers will only be interested in the classification and subject of your degree and the university you obtained it from.

Just look through what you have studied and if the balance tips in favour of social sciences, plump for a BA and likewise a BSc if you think you spent more time on the physical sciences.
 
Going back to what I said earlier, BSc might be sector specific but at the end of the day in terms of knowledge and understanding it is all on the same level.
 
I've got a Bronze swimming certificate as my degree certainly wasn't art related. My gf has a degree in Geography, awarded a BA. She told me that the University she stuided at was a religious University and that they didn't award science degrees. That was Lampeter, University of Wales back in 1998.
 
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