Bachelor's degree Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! =====Scotland===== At Scottish universities, bachelor's degrees (and the equivalent [[Scottish MA]] awarded by some institutions) are normally ''[[honours degree]]s'', taking four years of study (or five with a year abroad or in industry), but may also be ''ordinary degrees'' (also known as ''pass'', ''general'' or ''designated'' degrees) requiring three years of study. Honours degrees may be awarded as BA (Hons) or MA (Hons) in the arts and social sciences, or BSc (Hons) for sciences, or have more specific titles such as BEng. As in the rest of the UK, integrated [[master's degrees]], taking five years in Scotland, are also offered as first degrees alongside bachelor's degrees.<ref name="AGCAS">{{cite web|url=http://www.agcasscotland.org.uk/resources/he_guide.pdf|title=Employer's guide to scottish higher education|publisher=AGCAS Scotland|date=April 2008|pages=4–5|access-date=7 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012043901/http://www.agcasscotland.org.uk/resources/he_guide.pdf|archive-date=12 October 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> An honours degree may be directly linked to professional or vocational qualifications, particularly in fields such as engineering, surveying and architecture. These courses tend to have highly specified curricula, leaving students without many options for broader study. Others, following a more traditional route, start off with a broad range of studies across the faculty that has admitted the student or, via modular study, across the whole university. Students on these courses specialise later in their degree programmes.<ref name="AGCAS" /> Typically degree grades are based only on the final two years of study, after a specialisation has been chosen, so broader study courses taken in the first two years do not affect the final degree grade.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Independent|url= https://www.independent.co.uk/student/into-university/studying-in-scotland-our-friends-in-the-north-875562.html|title=Studying in Scotland: Our friends in the north|date=23 July 2008|first=Chris|last=Green}}</ref> Honours degrees are subdivided into [[British undergraduate degree classification#Degree classification|classes]] in the same way as the rest of the UK, depending on the overall grade achieved. These are, from highest to lowest; first class, upper second class (2:1), lower second class (2:2), and third class. Ordinary degrees are awarded to students who have completed three years at university studying a variety of related subjects.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.qaa.ac.uk/publications/information-and-guidance/publication?PubID=2674|title=The Framework for Qualifications of Higher Education Institutions in Scotland|publisher=[[Quality Assurance Agency]]|date=June 2014|access-date=7 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161107092634/http://www.qaa.ac.uk/publications/information-and-guidance/publication?PubID=2674|archive-date=7 November 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> These may be taken over a broad range of subjects or (as with honours degrees) with a specialisation in a particular subject (in the latter case, they are sometimes known s ''designated degrees''). As ordinary degrees in Scotland constitute a distinct course of study, rather than a grade below honours degrees, they can be graded (from lowest to highest) as "pass", "merit" or "distinction".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/senateoffice/policies/general/glossaryoftermsoccurringintheregulationsfortaughtdegrees/terminology/|title=Standard Terminology: Glossary of Terms for Taught Degrees|publisher=[[University of Glasgow]]|access-date=7 August 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.stir.ac.uk/regulations/undergrad/assessmentandawardofcredit/|title=Assessment and Award of Credit|publisher=[[University of Stirling]]|access-date=7 August 2016}}</ref> As in the rest of the UK, Certificates and Diplomas of Higher Education may be earned by those completing one and two years of a bachelor's degree course respectively.<ref name="AGCAS" /> The first two years, sometimes three, of both an ordinary degree and an honours degree are identical, but candidates for the ordinary degree study in less depth in their final year and often over a wider variety of subjects, and do not usually complete a dissertation. A Scottish ordinary degree is thus different from ordinary degrees in the rest of the UK in comprising a distinct course of study from the honours degree. In keeping with the Scottish "broad education" philosophy, ordinary degrees (and more rarely honours ones) may mix different disciplines such as sciences and humanities taught in different faculties and in some cases even different universities.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.staffordglobal.org/university/dundee|title= Dundee – Scottish University |access-date=18 July 2017}}</ref> Bachelor's degrees with honours are at level 10 of the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) and require 480 [[Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme|credits]] with a minimum of 90 at level 10 and 90 at level 9. Ordinary degrees are at level 9 and require 360 credits with a minimum of 90 at level 9.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scqf.org.uk/framework-diagram/Framework.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140616065231/http://scqf.org.uk/framework-diagram/Framework.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 June 2014|title=The Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework|publisher=Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework|access-date=7 August 2016}}</ref> Both honours degrees and ordinary degrees qualify as first cycle (end of cycle) qualifications in the [[Bologna Process]]. Bachelor's degrees in medicine, dentistry and veterinary science are at level 11 of the SCQF and are second cycle (end of cycle) qualifications in the Bologna Process.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.qaa.ac.uk/publications/information-and-guidance/publication?PubID=2843|title=The Frameworks for Higher Education Qualifications of UK Degree-Awarding Bodies|date=November 2014|publisher=[[Quality Assurance Agency]]|page=17|access-date=7 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013061809/http://www.qaa.ac.uk/publications/information-and-guidance/publication?PubID=2843|archive-date=13 October 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. 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