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Carl Gombrich, ex-Programme Director, was the Principal of UCL's international preparatory certificates before being appointed Programme Director, Arts and Sciences (BASc) in September 2010, a role he held until March 2019. He has degrees in mathematics, physics and philosophy and was also an opera singer before joining UCL in 2002.
In 2010, Gombrich was appointed Programme Director of UCL Arts and Sciences, leading the design, development and implementation of the degree, which began accepting students in 2012. [12] [2] This program was one of the first of its kind in the United Kingdom to offer a liberal arts degree. [14] [15] He directed the program until 2019. [4]
A Bachelor of Arts and Science(s) (BASc), sometimes as Bachelor of Science and Arts (BScA), [1] is an undergraduate bachelor's degree conferred by a small number of universities from countries including the United States, Canada, [2] the United Kingdom, [3] New Zealand, [4] Australia, and France. [5]
UCL was granted its own taught and research degree awarding powers in 2005, [80] and all UCL students registered from 2007/08 qualified with UCL degrees. [81] The same year, UCL adopted a new corporate branding under which the name University College London was replaced by the initialism UCL in all external communications. [82]
Degree abbreviations are used as an alternative way to specify an academic degree instead of spelling out the title in full, such as in reference books such as Who's Who and on business cards. Many degree titles have more than one possible abbreviation, with the abbreviation used varying between different universities.
In the United States, it is also considered a highly specialized professional technical degree; the Bachelor of Applied Science (BAS) is an applied baccalaureate, typically containing advanced technical education in sciences combined with liberal arts education that traditional degrees do not have. Yet, an earned BAS degree includes the same ...
An order by the Office for Students, the UK's regulator of higher education, in 2020 gave LIS the power to award the specific taught degree of BASc (Hons) in Interdisciplinary Problems and Methods from 27 September 2021 to 31 December 2024. [11] This regulatory approval also allowed students to pay fees using the national student loan scheme. [12]
In the 2013 QS World University Rankings, UCL was ranked 8th in the world (and 3rd in Europe) for Arts and Humanities. [7] In the 2014 QS World University Rankings by Subject, UCL was ranked 15th in the world (and 4th in Europe) for English Language and Literature, [8] 8th in the world (and 3rd in Europe) for Modern Languages [9] and joint 51st-100th in the world (and joint 16th in Europe) for ...