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so, how would you re-phrase the original statement?
ORIGINAL STATEMENT: "Mount Marty opened as a junior college (in the midst of the Great Depression) in 1936, and its first four-year bachelor degrees were awarded on May 29, 1951."
SUGGESTED ALTERNATIVE: "Mount Marty opened as a junior college (in the midst of the Great Depression) in 1936, and began to grant the four-year Bachelor of Arts degree in 1951."
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We don't know from the original statement that only BA degrees were awarded. BS degrees might have been awarded as well.
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thanks, FS. and JohnH, I'll check into that. 
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Here is an example of a descriptivist triumph, and for all practical and otherwise purposes, a feminist one - Undergraduate rather than Bachelor.
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Heh, maahey. I like it. But would we possessivise it?
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Undergraduate rather than Bachelor.
It has a certain aura of the oxymoron to it. Once one gets the degree one is no longer an undergraduate, is one?
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Bachelor-level degrees are sometimes referred to as "undergraduate degrees". The expectation is that the graduate will go on to do postgraduate degrees.
Since the qualification is bachelor of [pick your subject], then there is no possessive involved - the "bachelor" is merely an adjective describing "degree". Therefore it is "bachelor degree", although I have to agree with FS about its problems. The use of "undergraduate degree" probably evolved, at least in part, because of this awkwardness.
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"...I have to agree with FS..."
ANCIENT CHINESE PROVERB: He who agrees with pedantic priest is in good company.
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So, is it master degree? And how do you refer to the level in general? Bachelor of Arts or Science?
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