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

Postgraduate classification

We calculate funding reflecting postgraduate study in the same way we calculate funding reflecting other SAC[1] provision.

The essential principle of postgraduate education is that the learning involved must be at a postgraduate level (level 8 or higher). Rule SAC066[2] explains the classification of postgraduate certificates and diplomas. 

• [1]

  Student Achievement Component fund (SAC)

• [2]

  Rule SAC066: Postgraduate classification - certificates and diplomas

  Certificates and diplomas are only classified as postgraduate when both the following apply:

  • They build on the undergraduate degree of the same discipline at level 8 or higher
  • They are equivalent to the first year (Diploma) or half year (Certificate) of a master’s degree.