Another word for done or completed

You can’t say ‘done from a school’ , as I said above. I didn’t say ‘have done’ or ‘have completed’ as grammatical structures were wrong. If your problem is the meaning of the verbs or their collocations use the Search function. 😊 They’re in the dictionary, there are examples of collocations and previous threads.

In any case (BE):

I took my GCEs at xxx School.
I took my degree at xxx University.

Note that «done» is the past tense of the verb «do», and «I have done» is the present perfect of «I do». I agree that you don’t say «I do my GCE» (present perfect «I have done my GCE»).

Also, you need to distinguish between 2 different things:
(1) a degree you get from the university
(2) the years of work you perform, in order to get that degree

In English those are 2 different things. You use 2 different sentences when you talk about these 2 things.

They are not correct. You cannot «study» something «from» a school.

AE and BE use different terms, so I can’t suggest correct BE sentences. But 5 and 6 are clearly wrong.

You’ve pursued studies :- I studied for my A levels at x school. I read/studied/took English/Business Studies at x university.
You’ve pursued studies and sat exams :- I took my A levels at x school; I graduated in English/Business Studies at x university; I graduated with a BA(Hons) in Oriental Studies from x university.
Probably both :- I did my A levels at x school. ‘I did English, French and Latin in the Sixth Form.’

Actually, these overlap — context matters. If I said ‘I read English at Cambridge’ it would normally be understood that I had studied the subject and got an appropriate degree at the end of the course, though strictly it doesn’t guarantee the latter! To say you studied (did) a subject at a given level normally implies that you also completed the course by taking the appropriate exam. To say you ‘took’ an exam. normally implies that you studied for it (at the institutution named, if you’ve identified that).

You study a subject; you study for a qualification, for a named exam. You take/sit/do an exam . If you name both subject and level, you can say ‘I did/took A Level Geography and Art’, or ‘I did/took A levels in Geography and Art’, or ‘I did/took Geography and Art at A level’.

All the above are BE usage. It’s not a complete list of possibilities — just a basic guide.

By the way, apart from the ‘have done … from’ being impossible, the present perfect ‘have done’, whilst it might be appropriate in some circumstances, normally wouldn’t be used in preference to the simple past ‘did’ in the situations you seem to hve in mind.

Can we say:
5.I have studied my GCE advance level from xyz school.

6. I have studied my Bba from xyz university.

No. Those are incorrect too. You study for your xxx at xxx.

Hi can I use gerund after have done? Like I have done completing this course

As #10 said, any of the simple past forms of ‘did, studied, took, graduated’ remains acceptable and correct in its appropriate context. So, take note.
Your sentence still contains present perfect form(have done) which looks so unreal to me to fit in well in that situation.

And cannot say:
I have done BBA/ PhD from XYZ (university).?

That’s meaningless, sorry. Do you mean «I was awarded a BA by XYZ University /I did a BA at XYX University’?

The phrase «do a PhD» means «do an entire PhD program». It includes all the courses, all the studying, all the research, writing a dissertation, and finally being awarded a PhD degree from a university. Everything! So this «do» summarizes several years of work into one word.

«From» would not make sense here. If the sentence is about what you (the student) does, there is no «from».

The only way you could use ‘from’ in this context is this:

I have a BA from XYZ university.

This is the same construction as «I have a fur hat from Moscow» : it tells us where you obtained it.

This is the same construction as «I have a fur hat from Moscow»

It’s a little different. You can buy the same hat (manufactured in Minsk) in Moscow or 10 other cities.

But you can’t get a «PhD from XYZ university» at any other university. So here «from» means «awarded by».
A «PhD from XYZ» is an XYZ PhD, not an ABC PhD or any other PhD.

AmE speakers would say that, with slight changes:

He has done masters in Business administration from Abc university.
He has done a masters in Business administration at Abc university.

«I got* a Master’s (in + subject) at XYZ University.» or «I have a Master’s (in + subject) from XYZ University.» would work for me.
*Past tense of ‘get’, not shortened form of ‘have got’.

P. S., More formally, «obtained»; (a bit pretentiously, perhaps?: «earned».)