Undergraduate Master of Arts Degree
The ancient universities are distinctive in offering the Magister Artium/Master of Arts (M.A.) as an undergraduate academic degree. This is sometimes known as the Scottish MA, despite being offered by fewer than a third of Scotland's Universities.
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