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There are several streams to a Bachelor of Education, each corresponding to the particular level of instruction.

In the United States, this includes elementary school education, middle school education, and high school education.

Students in the elementary education stream generally study towards a Liberal Studies degree.

In the high school ( secondary education ) stream, the student specializes in one to two subject areas.

Upon completion of the degree, they will prepare and eventually sit for the state's Board of Education certification examination. In the universities of Medieval Europe, study was organised in four faculties: the basic faculty of arts, and the three higher faculties of theology, medicine and law ( canonical and civil ).

All of these faculties awarded intermediate degrees ( bachelor of arts, of theology, of laws, of medicine ) and final degrees.

Initially, the titles of master and doctor were used interchangeably for the final degrees, but by the late Middle Ages the terms Master of Arts and Doctor of Theology / Divinity, Doctor of Laws and Doctor of Medicine had largely become standard.

The doctorates in the higher faculties were quite different from the current Ph. D. degree in that they were awarded for advanced scholarship, not original research.

No dissertation or original work was required, only lengthy residency requirements and examinations.

Besides these degrees there was the licentiate.

Originally this was a license to teach, awarded shortly before the award of the master or doctor degree by the diocese in which the university was located, but later it evolved into an academic degree in its own right, in particular in the continental universities.

So in theory the full course of studies might lead in succession to the degrees of e. g. Bachelor of Arts, Licentiate of Arts, Master of Arts, Bachelor of Medicine, Licentiate of Medicine, Doctor of Medicine ; the same succession, bachelor-licentiate-doctor, has persisted till today, for instance, in Sacred theology: Bachelor of Sacred Theology ( STB ), Licentiate of Sacred Theology ( STL ), and Doctor of Sacred Theology ( STD ), and in Canon law: Bachelor of Canon Law ( JCB ), Licentiate of Canon Law ( JCL ), and Doctor of Canon Law ( JCD ).

There were many exceptions to this however, e. g. most students left the university before becoming masters of arts, whereas regulars ( members of monastic orders ) could skip the arts faculty entirely.