Student Achievement Component

• • Research-based postgraduate classification
  • Classifying courses
  • NZ Standard Classification of Education
  • Honours classification
  • Postgraduate classification
  • Professional programme variations
  • Programme classifications
  • Funding categories
  • Qualification level
  • 1-39 Classification Prescription

Honours classification

Some TEOs[1] award honours degrees on the basis of superior achievement in undergraduate courses. These are unlikely to meet the requirements for postgraduate classification of honours’ degrees specified in Rule SAC067[2]. Those requirements relate only to the nature of the delivery and the basis of funding for such courses, and do not affect the status of the qualification awarded.

• [1]

  Tertiary education organisation (TEO)

• [2]

  Rule SAC067: Postgraduate classification - honours programmes

  Postgraduate classification is appropriate for honours programmes meeting any of the following criteria:

  • honours programmes that require admission from a completed bachelor’s degree
  • a final-year honours’ stream into which learners are specifically admitted
  • courses that are specific to the honours’ stream.