What's ba in economics mean

Answer 1

"B.A. in Economics" means "bachelor of Arts degree in the field of economics".

In English-speaking countries The Bachelor's degree is the qualification issued at the end of undergraduate studies, usually after three or four years of study at a university or (in the USA) a college. (A person with a bachelor's degree may go on to higher studies leading to a master's degree or to a doctorate.)

In some countries (such as Australia) if you get a bachelor's in economics that is called a "bachelor of economics" degree, abbreviated to "B.Ec.". In other countries, for historical and traditional reasons, degrees are categorised into one of the faculties of the 19th-century university: Arts, Medicine, Law, or Science. (The arts in question are the "liberal arts", not Art, which is "fine arts".) Someone who studies economics as an undergraduate in such as country is usually awarded a degree of "Bachelor of Arts in Economics".

(Note: American universities have stopped awarding bachelors' degrees in law or medicine. Nowadays you need an BSc in "pre-medicine" to get into an American medical school, and a BA to get into an American law school. But Yale awarded LLB (bachelor of laws) degrees until 1971, and medical training is still available in some Commonwealth countries as a double bachelor's degree (bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery).

A B.A. undergraduate degree generally has more liberal arts courses such as a foreign language or Social Sciences while a B.S. degree generally has more mathematics courses. For example, a B.A. in Economics may have more social science courses while the B.S. in Economics degree would have math requirements such as calculus and other higher level math courses instead.