Is it possible to obtain double bachelor degree?

Why the difference in course length to obtain Bachelor's degree?

• I'm a US citizen, not fluent in any language other than English, but I'm looking into going abroad for college. If anyone knows of any good colleges, preferably in countries where English is not a main language, but courses are also offered in English, please let me know! Anyway, in my search, I've found that many international universities require only three years of study to obtain Bachelor's degrees, whereas in the US, it is pretty much always a four-year course of study to earn a degree. **Is the US just slacking off? Does the US have higher standards and more requirements? Are other countries just better at packing information into a three-year sequence? Are three-year Bachelor's degrees from foreign colleges any more/less credible back home in the United States?** Any insight? (An example of a three-year course of study to get a Bachelor's: http://www.nd.edu.au/sydney/courses/boPh%E2%80%A6 Thanks! =)

• Answer:

  I'm afraid the US is just slacking off :) High school graduates from the US normally have to do a foundation year to get them up to the same standard as A level students from the UK, if they want to come to a UK university. The US students simply aren't used to the concept that they can't do work over to get a higher grade, that there's no credit for homework and classwork, and that their exams won't be set solely on what they have been taught by the teacher who taught it - or marked by someone who knows them. They also haven't specialised at all by 18. For instance, I understand there's a "precalculus AP" course in the US, i.e. that's supposed to be advanced, pushing college level, and it's still only "pre"calculus. In the UK, someone studying maths at school would start to learn calculus itself before they were 17, and the precalculus work would be done at 15 or 16. That's a lot of catching up that a US student working on a maths degree is going to have to do. Depends on the college, of course, but a bachelor's degree from a good UK university is equivalent to a degree from a decent US college. With exceptions for things which vary by country, of course - UK law and US law are different, for instance.