A four-year undergraduate program in an American university. After graduating from high school and obtaining a diploma, American students can get a bachelor's degree after successfully completing four years of study in a college or university. The bachelor of arts degree course is usually four years, with two semesters per academic year.

The credit system is implemented in American university teaching; In institutions with two semesters a year, if you have 15 weeks of lectures or 2-3 hours of practical work every semester, it will be counted as one credit, and you can only award a bachelor's degree if you complete 1 20 credits within four years. Students usually take 4-5 courses at the same time each semester.

Students generally attend four courses of different academic levels in American undergraduate and graduate education at the same time each semester. Because associate degree is only the qualification certificate of junior college or community college two years later, it is not a necessary stage to pursue a bachelor's degree, so the degree system in the United States is basically a three-tier structure.

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The first two years of a bachelor's degree course are usually a wide range of basic subjects, including some compulsory subjects, such as English writing, foreign languages, literature, social sciences and science. In the last two years, students mainly study specialized courses, and students should choose one main subject and two minor subjects.

There are many kinds of disciplines and majors in American universities, and emerging disciplines and marginal disciplines emerge one after another. So there are about 2000 degrees in the United States, but according to the nature of degrees, there are only two kinds: academic (research) degrees and professional (specialist) degrees.

In addition, American universities also award honorary degrees, which do not reflect academic achievements, but commend people who have made outstanding contributions to society; In the United States, the degree level between colleges and universities is very inconsistent.

Some colleges allow students to enter professional colleges in the third and fourth years of college, which is especially common in law schools, medical schools and engineering schools. It may take more than five years for these students to get a bachelor's degree, but some of their undergraduate education and postgraduate education overlap in time.

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