Requirements for graduating with an honours degree in a Biomedical Sciences discipline

All core courses in Years 1 and 2 of the Biomedical Sciences degree programme must be passed to ultimately graduate with an Honours degree in your chosen discipline.

A “core” course is compulsory for your programme. Core courses are listed in the Biomedical Sciences Degree Programme Tables as appropriate:

Core courses listed on the Biomedical Sciences Degree Programme Table

In the fourth, Senior Honours, year compulsory courses must be taken.  Your Senior Honours Programme Guide will explain the specific pass requirements of year 4 courses for the award of the Honours degree.

Remember that you must also obtain 480 credit points over the degree programme to graduate with Honours. No exceptions can be made to these rules; however, up to 40 credit points can be awarded by aggregation for failed courses in each of the Honours years as long as the progression requirements indicated above are met.

Degree classification

Third year marks will count one third and fourth year marks two thirds towards your final overall degree classification, i.e. a 1:2 ratio for BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences students.

For intercalating students and students who studied on exchange in third year, the final degree classification is based solely on the marks in Senior Honours.

Biomedical Sciences qualifications

Full list of possible qualifications for the Biomedical Sciences programmes.