{"id":4242,"date":"2012-10-10T15:49:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T20:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=4242"},"modified":"2016-06-27T11:46:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T15:46:58","slug":"double-the-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=4242","title":{"rendered":"double the degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello sir<\/p>\n<p>I was wondering if it is possible at U of T to obtain a B.Com specialist and a BSc. specialist degree simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>Miss B<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Hello madam,<\/p>\n<p>Okay so I&#8217;ll have you know I had to talk to <em>a lot<\/em> of people to get you an answer to this question. Basically, you can only complete one degree at a time. If you&#8217;re really eager to get both a B.Com. and a B.Sc. You&#8217;ll have to finish the B.Comm. first and then apply for completing a second degree, which in total will be about a seven year process.<\/p>\n<p>But if you&#8217;re truly set on completely both specialists, you certainly can. However, you&#8217;ll only be graduating with one degree, which, in this scenario, will probably be the B.Com. since it sort of trumps Science. Likewise, you&#8217;ll be paying the tuition fees for the Commerce program instead which can make things a little bit more expensive. And then your years &#8212; which will probably be extended to around six &#8212; will be terrible and tiresome. Another problem would be that Commerce students wouldn&#8217;t get priority to Science courses, so you would probably be getting by through a whole lot of waitlists.<\/p>\n<p>But if you&#8217;re really set on science, you can definitely take a minor!<\/p>\n<p>Best,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello sir I was wondering if it is possible at U of T to obtain a B.Com specialist and a BSc. specialist degree simultaneously. Miss B \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Hello madam, Okay so I&#8217;ll have you know I had to talk to a lot of people to get you an answer to this question. Basically, you can only complete one degree at a time. If you&#8217;re really eager to get both a B.Com. and a B.Sc. You&#8217;ll have to finish the B.Comm. first and then apply for completing a second degree, which in total will be about a seven year process. But if you&#8217;re truly set on completely both specialists, you certainly can. However, you&#8217;ll only be graduating with one degree, which, in this scenario, will probably be the B.Com. since it sort of trumps Science. Likewise, you&#8217;ll be paying the tuition fees for the Commerce program instead which can make things a little bit more expensive. And then your years &#8212; which will probably be extended to around six &#8212; will be terrible and tiresome. Another problem would be that Commerce students wouldn&#8217;t get priority to Science courses, so you would probably be getting by through a whole lot of waitlists. But if you&#8217;re really set on science, you can definitely take a minor! Best, aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,15,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commerce","category-science","category-second-degree"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}