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This last category includes graduate-entry degrees titled as if they were doctorates, such as MD, JD and DDS degrees—despite their names, these are considered bachelor's degrees.<ref name="Canadian Framework"/> Bachelor's degrees may take either three or four years to complete and are awarded by colleges and universities. In many universities and colleges, bachelor's degrees are differentiated either as (ordinary) bachelor's or as honours bachelor's degrees. The term "honours" is an academic distinction, which indicates that students must achieve their bachelor's degree with a sufficiently high overall grade point average; in addition, some programs may require more education than non-honours programs. The honours degrees are sometimes designated with the abbreviation in brackets of "(Hon(s))". Going back in history, the ''Bachelor with Honours'' ([[Neo-Latin|Latin]] ''baccalaureatus cum honore'', {{lang-fr|baccalauréat spécialisé}}) was traditionally taken as the highest undergraduate degree. The program requires at least 4 years of studies, with strong emphasis on the research-based ''Honours Seminar Thesis'' which is considered approximately equivalent to a formal master's thesis. Universities show the [[academic degree]] as well as the possible honours distinction ([[Latin honors|Latin honours]]) on the diploma (e.g., "{{lang|la|BACCALAUREATUS ARTIUM CUM HONORE ... CUM LAUDE}}"). In Quebec, students have to take a minimum of two years of [[College education in Quebec|college]] before entering, for example, a three-year Bachelor of Science (BSc) or a four-year Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) program. As a consequence, there is no ''de jure'' "honours degree" (although some universities market some of their programs as being ''de facto'' honours degrees in their English-language materials)<ref>[https://www.quebec.ca/en/education/study-quebec/education-system Québec education system > Higher education > College studies]. [[Gouvernement du Québec]].</ref> but there are some specializations called "concentrations" in French, which are mostly taken as optional courses. In the province of Ontario, the most bachelor's degrees offered by [[List of universities in Ontario|Ontario universities]] are academic in nature. In contrast, Ontario legislation requires bachelor's degrees offered by [[List of colleges in Ontario|Ontario colleges]] to be applied and vocationally focused.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collegequarterly.ca/2014-vol17-num01-winter/panacci.html|title=Baccalaureate Degrees at Ontario Colleges: Issues and Implications|first1=Adam G.|last1=Panacci|date=2014|access-date=10 February 2014|publisher=The College Quarterly}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page