Bachelor’s Degree (BA/BS/BAS): normally takes four years of full-time study to earn – roughly 40 courses. Like the Associate degree, this undergraduate degree (also known as a baccalaureate degree) is further divided into arts, sciences, and applied sciences, so you could earn a BA (Bachelor of Arts), AS (Bachelor of Science) or BAS (Bachelor of Applied Sciences).
Careers Requiring Bachelor’s Degrees
- Accountants and auditors
- Administrative services managers
- Adult literacy, remedial education, and GED teachers and instructors
- Advertising and promotions managers
- Advertising sales agents
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks
- Broadcast news analysts
- Budget analysts
- Camera operators, television, video, and motion picture
- Chefs and Head Cooks
- Chief executives
- Chief Sustainability Officers
- Child, family, and school social workers
- Civil Engineering Technicians
- Civil engineers
- Clergy
- Clinical, counseling, and school psychologists
- Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists
- Computer and information systems managers
- Computer programmers
- Computer software engineers, applications
- Computer software engineers, systems software
- Computer support specialists
- Computer systems analysts
- Construction managers
- Copy Writers
- Correctional officers and jailers
- Database administrators
- Dental Hygienists
- Detectives and criminal investigators
- Dietitians and Nutritionists
- Editors
- Education administrators
- Education teachers, postsecondary
- Educational, vocational, and school counselors
- Electrical engineers
- Engineering managers
- English language and literature teachers, postsecondary
- Fashion designers
- Financial analysts
- Financial managers
- Food service managers
- Forensic science technicians
- Gaming surveillance officers and gaming investigators
- General and operations managers
- Graphic designers
- Human Resources Managers
- Industrial-organizational psychologists
- Insurance sales agents
- Interior designers
- Legal secretaries
- Loan officers
- Lodging managers
- Management analysts
- Marketing managers
- Medical and health services managers
- Medical and public health social workers
- Mental health counselors
- Network and computer systems administrators
- Network systems and data communications analysts
- Paralegals and legal assistants
- Personal and home care aides
- Personal financial advisors
- Police and sheriff's patrol officers
- Private detectives and investigators
- Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists
- Public relations specialists
- Registered Nurses
- Reporters and correspondents
- Sales engineers
- Sales managers
- Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents
- Security guards
- Self-enrichment education teachers
- Social and human service assistants
- Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school
- Sustainability Specialists
- Tax examiners, collectors, and revenue agents
- Training and development managers
- Transportation security officers
- Video Game Designers
- Vocational education teachers, postsecondary
- Web Developers