Can anyone tell me if a Bachelor of [u]Applied [/u]Science degree carries as much weight on a resume as a traditional Bachelor’s degree? I can’t seem to find any information on this type of degree. I have even asked a few HR recruiters and they have not heard of them.
A bachelor of science applied science (BAS) is usually awarded in a technical or applied professional area — such as engineering, electronics, management, IT, vet tech, heating and air conditioning, bookkeeping, forensics, weather forecasting, sound engineering, and so on. This type of online bachelors degree is designed to help older adults with applied career and technical experience gain college credit in the vocational area that best parallels their major area. Members of the military often earn “applied science degrees” in majors like electronics and nuclear engineering but so to do many hands-on specialists who work on the applied rather than… Read more »