Editing Bachelor of Arts (section)

== Degrees in other countries ==

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In colleges and universities in Australia, Nepal, New Zealand, India and South Africa, the BA degree can be taken over three years of full-time study.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bachelor of Arts degrees |publisher=[[Australian National University]] |url=http://cass.anu.edu.au/node/144 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100401072859/http://cass.anu.edu.au/node/144 |archive-date=2010-04-01}}</ref> Students must pursue at least one [[academic major|major]] area of study and units from that subject are usually studied in each year, though sometimes students may choose to complete upper-level classes in the same year and as a result, can leave space for elective subjects from a different field. At some universities, students may choose to pursue a second major; alternatively, the remainder of the degree is taken up with a minor area of study (in the first two years) and other individual or stream-based subjects.
In Pakistan the Bachelor of Arts (BA) program used to be regular 2-year degree program in which students were offered with a combination of any two of areas from the available electives: Business, Journalism, Psychology, Computer Science and Education. However, now all bachelor's degree courses are 4-year program. 2 years degree is now called associate degree.