When progression into the Junior Honours Year isn't approved

If your progression to the Junior Honours year of the Medical Sciences degree programme is not approved, there are two possible alternatives.

Continue with Medical Sciences

You may decide to continue on the Medical Sciences programme and graduate at the end of 3^rd year with an Ordinary degree.

Transfer to another degree programme

Alternatively, you may decide to apply to transfer from the Medical Sciences degree programme to another degree programme, most probably one of the Biomedical Sciences degree programmes (Biomedical Sciences, Infectious Diseases, Neuroscience, Pharmacology, Physiology, and Reproductive Biology). The core Medical Sciences courses keep several Biomedical Sciences Honours options open and this can be widened further by an astute choice of second and third year elective courses. A transfer to a Biomedical Sciences programme would be dependent on successful completion of the core courses required for the Biomedical Sciences degree programmes and places being available which cannot be assumed. Such a transfer would only be possible at the end of the second year. To be eligible to transfer you must meet published progression requirements for the degree programme.

Transfer application form

Undergraduate study within the Deanery of Biomedical Sciences

View the Biomedical Sciences degree programme table

Timing your decision

If you decide to continue on the Medical Sciences Ordinary degree programme, continuation into the fourth year of Medical Sciences would not be possible no matter how well you performed in the third year.

If you decide to transfer to a Biomedical Sciences degree, this would only be possible at the end of the second year and not at the end of third year.

Progression into the Senior Honours year

What you need to progress from the Junior Honours year to Senior Honours