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Liberal arts colleges such as Pomona College (pictured) generally offer exclusively undergraduate education.

Undergraduate education is education conducted after secondary education and

before postgraduate education. It typically includes all postsecondary programs up to
the level of a bachelor's degree. For example, in the United States, an entry-level
university student is known as an undergraduate, while students of higher degrees are
known as graduate students. Upon completion of a number of required and
elective courses as part of an undergraduate program, the student would earn the
corresponding degree. (In some regions, individual "courses" and the "program"
collection are given other terms, such as "units" and "course", respectively.) In some
other educational systems, undergraduate education is postsecondary education up to
 the level of a master's degree; this is the case for some science courses in Britain and
some medicine courses in Europe.

Contents

 1Programs
o 1.1Africa
 1.1.1Nigerian system
 1.1.2South African system
o 1.2Americas
 1.2.1Brazilian system
 1.2.2United States system
o 1.3Asia
 1.3.1Bangladeshi system
 1.3.2Hong Kong system
 1.3.3Indian system
 1.3.4Japanese system
 1.3.5Pakistani system
o 1.4Europe
 1.4.1English, Welsh, and Northern Irish system
 1.4.2European Bologna process systems
 1.4.3Scottish system
 1.4.4Other European systems
 2See also
 3References

Programs[edit]
Africa[edit]
Nigerian system[edit]
In Nigeria, undergraduate degrees (excluding Medicine, Medical Laboratory Science,
Nursing, Engineering, Law and Architecture) are four-year-based courses. Medicine
(MBBS) and Architecture normally take six years to complete studies while Medical
Laboratory Science, Nursing, Law and Engineering courses take five years to complete
studies, usually, all six years are taken to improve their chances. Undergraduate
nursing degrees or diplomas usually take two to four years and sometimes 5 years to
complete, whereas graduate degrees are an additional two years or more.
South African system[edit]
The South African system usually has a three-year undergraduate bachelor's degree,
with two or three majors. (There are exceptions, such as the medical qualification
(MBChB), which is six years, and Engineering which is four.) A fourth year, known as an
Honours year, is considered a post-graduate degree. It is usually course-driven,
although may include a project or thesis.
Americas[edit]
Brazilian system[edit]
See also: Universities and Higher Education in Brazil

Federal University of Ceará

Brazil follows the major traits of the continental European system; free public schools
are available from kindergarten up to postgraduation, both as a right established in
Article 6, caput of the Brazilian Constitution and as a duty of the State in Article 208,
Items I, IV and V, of the Brazilian Constitution.[1] Students choose their specific course of
studies before joining the university. Admission to university is obtained by means of a
competitive entrance exam known as Vestibular (a concept somewhat similar to
the Baccalauréat in France). A later system introduced in 2009, adopted by most federal
universities, uses the high school national examination (ENEM) result as part or a
replacement of the Vestibular grade.[2] Depending on the chosen course, upon
graduating the student is granted: a technologist diploma, 3 years to complete,
a bachelor's degree's diploma, which usually takes 4 or, in the case
of Law, Veterinary, Geology and Engineering, 5 years to complete; or a professional
diploma, which normally require 5 or, in the case of medicine, 6 years to complete.
United States system[edit]

The University of Virginia

In the United States, undergraduate refers to a student who is studying for a bachelor's

degree.[3] The most common bachelor's degrees are Bachelor of Arts (BA or AB) and
Bachelor of Science (BS or SB), but other degrees such as Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA),
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Bachelor of Music (BM), Bachelor of Social
Work (BSW), Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), and
Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) are also possible. Most commonly these degrees
require four years of full-time study after high school.
Unlike in the British model, degrees in law and medicine are not offered at the
undergraduate level and instead are completed at a graduate level, after earning a
bachelor's degree. Neither field specifies or prefers any undergraduate major, [citation
needed]
 though medical schools require a set of courses that must be taken before
enrollment.[4]
Students can also choose to attend a two-year community college before further study
at a four-year college or university. In most states, community colleges are operated
either by a division of the state university or by local special districts subject to guidance
from a state agency. Community colleges award associate degrees of different types,
some intended to prepare students to transfer to four-year institutions (e.g. Associate of
Arts (AA), Associate of Science (AS)), and others intended to provide vocational skills
and training for students wishing to enter into or advance in a profession. In some states
considerable attention has been given to make sure that community college courses in
fact prepare the students for the continuation courses they will encounter at the local
college; this process of bringing courses into sequence is called articulation. Some
community colleges have automatic enrollment agreements with a local college or
university, where the community college provides the first two years of study and the
university provides the remaining years of study, sometimes all on one campus. The
community colleges award associate degrees, while universities and colleges award the
bachelor's. However, some community colleges, such as Brazosport College in Lake
Jackson, Texas offer bachelor's degrees along with associate degrees. [5] Conversely,
some universities such as the University of Delaware also award associate degrees.[6]
In the United States, "college" and "university" are terms used differently in different
states; New York's terminology is especially confusing (see University of the State of
New York). A university is usually larger than a college, and has programs at the
graduate level, but the distinction is not clear-cut. Some colleges (like Smith College)
award graduate degrees, for example, and some colleges are larger than some
universities. Some states have requirements a college must meet before it is allowed to
call itself a university. Institutions seeking to grow have pursued various steps to turn
two-year junior colleges into community colleges, community colleges into four-year
colleges, awarding baccalaureate degrees, sometimes while still a community college,
and colleges into universities, with graduate (post-baccalaureate) programs.