B.A. in Maths

I got one. Makes no difference, people treat it the same as a BSc. Can affect the additional modules you get to take, maybe (which is why I did it, so I could take some music classes too), but yeah, once you're finished, nobody minds either way.

what is the difference between a BSc and a BA in Maths?

i'm getting a BS in "maths". i guess you have to take more application-y things or something. i might be wrong but i think BA is for pure math. i would like a BA more because i like arts but my school doesn't offer it.

I started to do a MSc in Maths and Philosophy, but switched to the Arts faculty after a year as I'd taken sociology as my additional subject in first year and would have had to have dropped it after a year and done a sciencey subject (social sciences not being science). I ended up dropping the maths and doing an MA in Philosophy, having regretted both dropping the maths and carrying on the sociology.

Youn, BA is graduating from the Arts faculty (a Bachelor of Arts), BSc is graduating from the Science faculty (a Bachelor of Science). As JimD said, it depends on what additional subjects you want to study.

Yep, I think caitlin might be right about BAs being only for pure maths, at least in some colleges. Mine was pure.

Oh, and if you're doing this at a Scottish university, there's a weird loophole. If I'd studied pure maths in the science faculty at St Andrews, then at the end of my four years I'd have got a BSc. But because I did it in the arts faculty, they gave me an MA, for what was basically the exact same course.

...which is where my confusing post comes from (I graduated from Glasgow University).

I was going to stick on a disclaimer about maybe this was just the Glasgow Uni/Scottish way of doing things, having not looked too deeply into anywhere else, but I thought these things were reasonably universal across the UK. (I am assuming the original poster is British.)

I think the fake MA thing is just a scots thing, and it's a result of the four year courses, which in turn are a result of highers taking a year less than a-levels. The rest of the UK doesn't do it. That's what makes it handy! Most people don't realise my MA isn't a real MA, so I get to look cleverer than I really am. :)

weirdly i have a BA, but i maybe have a "fake" MA as well (i'm not sure if the forms for getting a free cantab MA ever got processed as well), but i also did a 4th year course that doesn't count as an MA, but as CASM instead, but which the university is happy to write letters claiming it's equivalent to a "taught MA". all a little confusing, really.

I have a BA(Mod) in maths, which I think is because there wasn't really enough science for a separate school when the college started giving them out.

I use to have a BA and an MSci in Natural Sciences, gained by doing a single four-year undergrad course. Which was confusing enough, especially since the majority of my time at uni was spent doing experimental and theoretical physics. Then, five years ago, my BA got upgraded to an MA through the ridiculous Oxbridge process. This was followed six months later by a real actual MSc in Computation. So I am now in the unusual position of being in posession of three masters degrees, despite only having attended university as a graduate for a single year.