Grading - Degree Information and Classification

Progressing into year 3 and year 4, degree classifications and exit qualifications.

Progression 

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Exit Qualifications

Undergraduate Certificate of Higher Education

Students who obtain a minimum of 120 points from passes in courses at the University of Edinburgh. 

Undergraduate Diploma of Higher Education

Students who obtain a minimum of 240 points, where at least 120 points are from passes in courses at the University of Edinburgh, and at least 80 points are from courses at level 8 or above.  

BSc Ordinary in a Designated Discipline

Students must have obtained 360 points.

Where 240 must be from courses listed in: 

  • Science and Engineering Schedules K-Q
  • Medicine and Veterinary Medicine Schedule T
  • Psychology in Schedule I

200 points must be at level 8, 9 or 10. Including 80 points at level 9 or 10 in the designated discipline in courses listed in: 

  • Science and Engineering Schedules K-Q
  • Medicine and Veterinary Medicine Schedule T 
  • Language Sciences and Psychology Schedule I

BSc Honours Biological Sciences (designated discipline)

Full details available from Degree Regulations and Programmes of Study (DRPS).

DRPS

BSc Honours Biological Sciences (designated discipline) with Management

Full details available from Degree Regulations and Programmes of Study (DRPS).

DRPS

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