Bachelor of Science and Related Topics

Walsh School of Foreign Service

School of international relations at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. It is considered to be one of the world's leading international affairs schools, granting degrees at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

Healy Hall in Georgetown's Main Campus in Washington, D.C.

Bill Clinton, class of 1968, ran for student council president his senior year.

It offers an undergraduate program based in the liberal arts, which leads to the Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service (BSFS) degree, as well as eight interdisciplinary graduate programs.

London School of Economics

Public research university located in London, England, and a constituent college of the federal University of London.

Friedrich Hayek, who taught at LSE during the 1930s and 1940s

The World Turned Upside Down. The island of Taiwan is coloured differently from mainland China

32 Lincoln's Inn Fields houses the Department of Economics and the International Growth Centre

The New Academic Building houses the LSE Law School

The 16th-century Old Curiosity Shop is now owned (freehold) and managed by the LSE

LSE Campus as viewed from the terrace of the New Academic Building in January 2018, showing the Centre Building's redevelopment and the demolition of 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields

John Watkins Plaza at the London School of Economics

Houghton Street is the centre of the LSE campus

The interior of the main LSE library, designed by Norman Foster

Nelson Mandela arriving at LSE in 2000 to deliver a public lecture

LSE students revising in Lincoln's Inn Fields

Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1945–1951)

Jomo Kenyatta, President of Kenya (1964–1978)

Mwai Kibaki, 3rd President of Kenya (2002–2013)

Romano Prodi, Prime Minister of Italy (1996–1998; 2006–2008) and President of the European Commission (1999–2004)

B. R. Ambedkar, Member of the Constituent Assembly of India (1946–1950) and Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Constitution of India (1947–1950)

Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada (1968–1979; 1980–1984)

Lee Kuan Yew{{NoteTag|Attended; did not graduate.}}, Prime Minister of Singapore (1959–1990)

Queen Margrethe II of Denmark (1972–present)

Kim Campbell, Prime Minister of Canada (1993)

Heinrich Brüning, Chancellor of Germany (1930–1932)

Karl Popper, reader in logic and scientific method at the LSE

George Soros, billionaire investor, philanthropist and political activist

Tsai Ing-wen, President of Taiwan (2016–present)

Tony Fernandes, chief executive officer of the low-cost carrier, AirAsia

Carlo Cottarelli, Director of the Financial Bureau of the International Monetary Fund (2008–2013)

Kamisese Mara, founding father and Prime Minister of Fiji (1970–1987; 1987–1992)

Sher Bahadur Deuba, Prime Minister of Nepal (1995–1997; 2001–2002; 2004–2005; 2017–2018; 2021–present)

Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (2019–present)

Anthony Kennedy, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1988–2018), spent a year at the LSE.

Leonid Hurwicz – Nobel laureate in Economics – studied at LSE with Nicholas Kaldor and Hayek

Ronald Coase – awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1991

Christopher A. Pissarides – awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2010 – currently Regius Professor of Economics at LSE

Amartya Sen, Indian economist, former professor and Nobel laureate

Juan Manuel Santos, former president of Colombia and recipient of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize

The University of London degrees of BSc (Econ) and DSc (Econ) were established in 1901, the first university degrees dedicated to the social sciences.

Haas School of Business

Business school of the University of California, Berkeley.

The eastern entrance, across from the California Memorial Stadium

The Haas School of Business, in conjunction with the main UC Berkeley campus, offers an undergraduate Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration (BSBA).

Bachelor's degree

Undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six years (depending on institution and academic discipline).

The two most common bachelor's degrees are the Bachelor of Arts (BA) and the Bachelor of Science (BS or BSc).

Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines.

The internet and online space have also moved away from the liberal arts focus on Bachelor of arts programs towards the types of disciplines found and focused in the Bachelor of Science.

University of Michigan

Public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

University of Michigan (1855) Jasper Francis Cropsey

Alexander J. Davis's original University of Michigan designs featured the Gothic Revival style. Davis himself is generally credited with coining the term "Collegiate Gothic."

Andrew Dickson White, founder and first president of Cornell University and among the earliest benefactors of Michigan, joined the Michigan faculty in 1858. He made his lasting mark on the grounds of the university by enrolling students to plant elms along the walkways on The Diag, resembling the "glorious elms" of Yale.

Physicists George Uhlenbeck, Hendrik Kramers, and Samuel Goudsmit circa 1928 at Michigan.

John Dewey, founder of the University of Chicago Laboratory School

University of Michigan Golf Course was designed by Scottish golf course architect Alister MacKenzie and opened in 1931.

Samuel Trask Dana Building (West Medical Building) houses the School for Environment and Sustainability

The Thomas Henry Simpson Memorial Institute for Medical Research was constructed in 1924 as the result of a donation from the widow of iron magnate Thomas H. Simpson, in memory of her late husband, who had died of pernicious anemia

West Hall at the Southeast corner of the Diag

Law Quadrangle, constructed during the decade of 1923–33, was designed by York and Sawyer in the Tudor style recalled the quadrangles of the two English ancient universities Oxford and Cambridge

Statue of Portia, above the front entrance to the Martha Cook Residence Hall

Betsy Barbour Residence Hall, one of three all-female residence halls on campus, was designed by Albert Kahn in the English Georgian style.

Michigan Union, an Art Deco building constructed on land wholly owned by the student society in 1917, was designed by Michigan alumni Irving Kane Pond and Allen Bartlit Pond.

Delta Sigma Delta, the first dental fraternity in the world

Phi Delta Phi, the oldest legal organization in continuous existence in the United States.

Newberry Hall (Kelsey Museum of Archeology)

Alice Freeman Palmer (A.B. 1876, Ph.D. Hon 1882)

14th President of Yale University James Rowland Angell, an early proponent of eugenics, graduated from Michigan in 1890. His father, James Burrill Angell, was president of Michigan from 1871 to 1909.

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States William Rufus Day (B.S.)

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States George Alexander Sutherland

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States William Francis Murphy (J.D. 1914)

United States Secretary of Agriculture Julius Sterling Morton (B.A.)

Puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada David Mills (LAW: LLB 1867)

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines Maria Lourdes Sereno (LLM)

38th President of the United States Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (B. A. 1935, HLLD 1974)

British politician George Mark Malloch Brown, Baron Malloch-Brown (MA)

British politician Howard Emerson Flight, Baron Flight (BUS: MBA)

33rd Governor of Michigan William Alfred Comstock

Edward Wood (HLLD 1944), 1st Earl of Halifax

Haile Selassie I (HDCL 1954), Emperor of Ethiopia

Sukarno (HDCL 1956), First President of Indonesia

Queen Juliana (HDCL 1965), Queen of the Netherlands

Nelson Mandela (HLLD 1987), Father of the Nation for South Africa

Elie Wiesel (HDHL 1992), Recipient of Nobel Peace Prize in 1986

The University of Michigan conferred the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1855, four years after the Lawrence Scientific School at Cambridge conferred the degree in 1851, for the first time in the United States, making Michigan the second institution in the country to confer the degree.

University of Oxford

Collegiate research university in Oxford, England.

Balliol College, one of the university's oldest constituent colleges

Aerial view of Merton College's Mob Quad, the oldest quadrangle of the university, constructed in the years from 1288 to 1378

In 1605 Oxford was still a walled city, but several colleges had been built outside the city walls (north is at the bottom on this map).

An engraving of Christ Church, Oxford, 1742

Atrium of the Chemistry Research Laboratory, where the university has invested heavily in new facilities in recent years

The Sheldonian Theatre, built by Sir Christopher Wren between 1664 and 1668, hosts the university's Congregation, as well as concerts and degree ceremonies.

Wellington Square, the name of which has become synonymous with the university's central administration

Dining hall at Christ Church. The hall is an important feature of the typical Oxford college, providing a place to both dine and socialise.

Percentage of state-school students at Oxford and Cambridge

Rhodes House – home to the awarding body for the Rhodes Scholarships, often considered to be the world's most prestigious scholarship

The Clarendon Building is home to many senior Bodleian Library staff and previously housed the university's own central administration.

Duke Humfrey's Library in the Bodleian Library

An undergraduate student at the University of Oxford in subfusc for matriculation

Rowing at Summer Eights, an annual intercollegiate bumps race

This concept of a Bachelor of Science had been adopted at other European universities (London University had implemented it in 1860) but an 1880 proposal at Oxford to replace the classical requirement with a modern language (like German or French) was unsuccessful.

UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science

Largest of the 14 colleges at the University of California, Berkeley and encompasses the liberal arts.

The College of Letters and Science awards only Bachelor of Arts degrees at the undergraduate level, in contrast to the other schools and colleges of UC Berkeley which award only Bachelor of Science degrees at the undergraduate level.

The original College of Agriculture consisted of the Hilgard, Wellman, and Giannini halls. Today, Rausser has expanded to occupy the Koshland, Morgan, and Mulford buildings.

Rausser College of Natural Resources

Oldest college in the University of California system (UC) and home to several internationally top-ranked programs.

1) Agricultural and Resource Economics (ARE) researches global food production, nutrition and health, development economics, climate change, environmental economics, applied econometrics, policy evaluation, energy economics, natural resource economics, and international trade. Admissions to ARE's graduate program are highly competitive, with an acceptance rate of 8.8%. ARE offers one undergraduate major, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Environmental Economics and Policy (EEP). Admissions to EEP are capped. ARE is chaired by David Sunding.

China

Country in East Asia.

China (today's Guangdong), Mangi (inland of Xanton), and Cataio (inland of China and Chequan, and including the capital Cambalu, Xandu, and a marble bridge) are all shown as separate regions on this 1570 map by Abraham Ortelius

10,000 years old pottery, Xianren Cave culture (18000–7000 BCE)

Yinxu, the ruins of the capital of the late Shang dynasty (14th century BCE)

China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, is famed for having united the Warring States' walls to form the Great Wall of China. Most of the present structure, however, dates to the Ming dynasty.

Map showing the expansion of Han dynasty in the 2nd century BC

The Qing conquest of the Ming and expansion of the empire

The Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China to defeat the anti-foreign Boxers and their Qing backers. The image shows a celebration ceremony inside the Chinese imperial palace, the Forbidden City after the signing of the Boxer Protocol in 1901.

Sun Yat-sen, the founding father of Republic of China, one of the first republics in Asia.

Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong toasting together in 1945 following the end of World War II

Mao Zedong proclaiming the establishment of the PRC in 1949.

The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests was ended by a military-led massacre which brought condemnations and sanctions against the Chinese government from various foreign countries.

Satellite image of China from NASA WorldWind

Köppen-Geiger climate classification map for mainland China.

A giant panda, China's most famous endangered and endemic species, at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Sichuan

The Three Gorges Dam is the largest hydroelectric dam in the world.

Earliest known written formula for gunpowder, from the Wujing Zongyao of 1044 CE

Huawei headquarters in Shenzhen. Huawei is the world's largest telecoms-equipment-maker and the second-largest manufacturer of smartphones in the world.

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, one of the first Chinese spaceports

Internet penetration rates in China in the context of East Asia and Southeast Asia, 1995–2012

The Duge Bridge is the highest bridge in the world.

The Beijing Daxing International Airport features the world's largest single-building airport terminal.

The Port of Shanghai's deep water harbor on Yangshan Island in the Hangzhou Bay is the world's busiest container port since 2010.

A 2009 population density map of the People's Republic of China and Taiwan. The eastern coastal provinces are much more densely populated than the western interior.

A trilingual sign in Sibsongbanna, with Tai Lü language on the top

Map of the ten largest cities in China (2010)

Beijing's Peking University, one of the top-ranked universities in China

Chart showing the rise of China's Human Development Index from 1970 to 2010

Geographic distribution of religions in China.
Chinese folk religion (including Confucianism, Taoism, and groups of Chinese Buddhism)
Buddhism tout court
Islam
Ethnic minorities' indigenous religions
Mongolian folk religion
Northeast China folk religion influenced by Tungus and Manchu shamanism; widespread Shanrendao

Fenghuang County, an ancient town that harbors many architectural remains of Ming and Qing styles.

The stories in Journey to the West are common themes in Peking opera.

Map showing major regional cuisines of China

Go is an abstract strategy board game for two players, in which the aim is to surround more territory than the opponent and was invented in China more than 2,500 years ago.

Long March 2F launching Shenzhou spacecraft. China is one of the only three countries with independent human spaceflight capability.

Lihaozhai High School in Jianshui, Yunnan. The sign is in Hani (Latin alphabet), Nisu (Yi script), and Chinese.

China is developing its education system with an emphasis on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM); in 2009, China graduated over 10,000 PhD engineers, and as many as 500,000 BSc graduates, more than any other country.