Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
Medical degrees differ from other undergraduate degrees in that they are professional qualifications that lead holders to enter a particular career upon receipt. This is not the case with most other undergraduate degrees, so whilst the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery are undergraduate or graduate degrees (depending on the institution), they are perhaps more accurately conceptualised as a so-called first professional degree. Other professions whose qualifications follow a similar pattern include:
University of Miami Business School
The Undergraduate Business Education program leads to degrees of Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) or Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA).
Undergraduates at MBS can choose from 14 different majors and minors in Accounting, Business Analytics, Business Technology, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Global Business, Health Management and Policy, Human Resources, International Finance and Marketing, Legal Studies, Management, Marketing, and Real Estate. They are also permitted to pursue additional majors and minors in other disciplines in the College of Arts & Sciences, the School of Education & Human Development, the School of Communication, the Frost School of Music, and the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. Undergraduates at MBS may also construct an individualized major in General Business, allowing them to combine areas of business study in ways that satisfy their particular academic, career, or graduate school objectives.
Undergraduate business students at MBS are encouraged to study abroad and can apply financial aid and scholarship to semester-abroad programs, including UM semesters on location in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Prague, Czech Republic; Rome, Italy; Galapagos Islands, Ecuador; Cape Town, South Africa; Shanghai, China; and Manipal, India, as well as exchange partner programs at over 35 institutions. MBS faculty-led courses are offered each summer in Europe. MBS offers a variety of undergraduate business core and elective courses in Spanish.
Global Business Scholars is a competitive-entry honors program for top admits interested in global careers, which carries benefits like funded travel, a series of seminar courses running through the four-year degree program, supervised research leading to a thesis, and international internships. Honors Foote Fellows at the School of Business pursue their curriculum without having to take general education coursework.