In Colombia it is the degree obtained by finishing Middle Education or Secondary Education; previously amounted to passing the sixth of high school and which today is called the eleventh grade. Bachelor. Without this degree or degree you cannot enter Higher education or university. Previously primary education was said to the first five grades that were studied in a school and the secondary school was six years old and was usually done in a school. Currently basic education goes up to the ninth grade, so it is considered that the high school or middle school stage is only grades ten and eleven.
From Latin baccalaureatus, laureado with berry, for in the Middle Ages and remembering the Greek champions of the Olympics, it was crowned with laurel branches full of black berries to which they finished their first-grade studies at universities. It was Pope Gregory IX in the 13th century who distinguished the bachelor,graduate and doctoral degrees.