Bachelor of Applied Arts?

[dondondodo]

Hi everyone! I was wondering if a Bachelor of Applied Arts will count as the Bachelor's degree needed to apply for JET

[danicoro]

I am no expert on this program, however based on the information at their website, the primary thing you need to participate in the JET Programme is a Bachelor's Degree. I took that to mean that a Bachelor's degree in anything (i.e. Engineering, Science, Art, Education, etc) should qualify you for the program.

Again, I am no expert, but as long as it is a Bachelor's degree, I would imagine that you should be fine

[merkypie]

Any type of bachelor's degree count. Even a Bachelors in Anime counts as long as it's an accredited degree.

[dondondodo]

Ooops, guys, maybe I should have clarified and this is my fault but a BAA is a Bachelor's from a college and I am not sure if the Bachelor has to be specifically from a University D:
But thanks for answering! !

[Patryn]

not sure what the difference is between a college and a university. I always thought the USA called them colleges, and the rest called them Universities or something. xD
Without knowing what you mean, we can't really answer properly, but if you received a nice certificate from a registered tertiary educational institution that says Bachelors' degree in one form or another, than it's probably fine. Contact your local embassy to verify though.

[Lianwen]

I don't really think it matters....

For clarification, at least in America, colleges are usually stand alone schools (usually no grad programs are directly associated with them), while universities can be a family of colleges, usually with a bunch of different graduate programs.

Ex. Cornell College vs Cornell University. The former is a college, with no affiliation with the ivy league, located in Kentucky (or maybe Kansas - can't recall), while the latter is made of a college of science, college of hospitality, college of agricultural sciences (It's actually made of 7 different colleges, where 3 are private and 4 are public NYS colleges) and so on to form Cornell University, which also has it's own graduate schools. <--feel free to correct me on this, but I remember my HS guidance counselor telling me this.

As long as you hold a BS/BA or anything higher, you should be fine. I'm wondering if your BAA is just a BA? Because I'm only familiar with Associate and Bachelors.

[merkypie]

Well, it doesn't matter how many colleges there are. At the state college level there's a " school of medicine ", " school of art and design ", " school of business ", etc. The separate schools/colleges doesn't determine if a school is a university.

I was under the impression that in order for an institution to be a "university" they needed to offer graduate programs. For instance, my school "changed" to a university once they received the accreditation to offer Master/Ph.D degrees.

[miami_coordinator]

as long as it's a Bachelor's degree it's fine.

Edit: a Bachelor's degree from a university whose accreditation is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

[Eigen]

Colleges in Canada are different from Universities, so I see where concern would be, but if it's an accredited school and they call it a Bachelor's it's ok. If they offered a program less than 3 years and one that didn't satisfy the Bachelor's requirements, they'd call it a diploma, certificate, etc

Our colleges here offer many diploma programs and Bachelor's. Good luck!