Baccalaureate

A baccalaureate is an educational qualification. The term may refer to:

• A bachelor's degree
• Baccalauréat, France's national secondary-school (lycée) diploma
• Romanian Baccalaureate, Romania's national secondary-school (liceu) diploma
• International Baccalaureate, a group of three internationally recognised educational programmes for students aged 3 to 19
  • The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, the senior of the three International Baccalaureate programmes, for students aged 16-19
• European Baccalaureate, awarded to students who successfully manage to complete a European School
• English Baccalaureate, a performance measure to assess secondary schools in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
• Welsh Baccalaureate, a recently introduced pre-university qualification in Wales
• Bachillerato, a secondary school educational programme in several Spanish-speaking countries
• In Canada and Belgium, Baccalauréat is used in French for a Bachelor's degree in Francophone universities
• Baccalaureate service, "a farewell address in the form of a sermon delivered to a graduating class" (in the United States)
• Tunisian Baccalaureate, an annual national examination in Tunisia