how to get letters after your name???

Hi i know this is going to sound really stupid but i recently finished a BA (hons) english degree. Does this mean i can use the letters BA after my name or would it be different letters? also i heard you have to apply to be able to use them, all very confusing to me. Can anyone help? Thanx

 

Yes, you can now sign yourself as Firstname Surname B.A. (Hons)

 

many thanx for your reply

 

If you have completed your Bachelor's you can just start putting the BA (hons) after your name.

However before the Passport Agency will only allow you to to add the BA when you send proof of your degree.

 

Personally, I think it's very ostentatious. If I wanted to, I could quote all three of my degrees after my name, but I never do. In business, I find that it creates the wrong impression.

 

Congrats,I would write it with pride, although I only found out last week that my bf of 6 years has all sorts of letters she can use and never has.

Liz
B.A.G.A 1,2,3 and 4

 

How can a person who has just spent 4+ years doing an English degree spell thanks as 'thanx'. :|

Congratulations anyway.

 

I have a BA (Hons) in Fine Art - should I put BA in FA?!!

 

I’ve got loads of letters after my name, just got no idea of what they spell.:|

 

I will play the crabit old git again but why does a graduate:-

1. Not know this anyway

2. Not know how to find out over than asking here

3. And yes, appear not to be able to write in English. Has this been dropped as a requirement at whatever degree mill cranked out yours? (I am aware of the hypocrisy that my own writing is not correct either but I am doing it for ironic effect...honestly)

 

aghhh Mr T played BA Baracus now I know what the BA stands for, and I just though he was an uneducated FOOL!

 

i agree with sysops , it looks good.

 

In the right context, perhaps.

On business cards etc it does not unless you are an English teacher or work in Waterstones.

 

I think it is a personal preference. They are there for you to use. I personally have never used my letters after my name but I'm sure my mum has used them for me!

 

The only letters I am allowed to put after my name are MIBM so I don't bother as not many people know what it stands for.

 

Member of the Institute of Business Management?

 

Well that would be better than BA in Fart!

 

I just fell off my chair!

 

If you put B.A.(Hons) after your name you'll look a right Herbert, as the convention is not to have punctuation within the title, only between titles.

Dawg, C.H.,Q.C.,Ph.D.,
should be:
Dawg. CH, QC, PhD.