Rule SAC055: EFTS value of courses - calculating from qualifications measured in credits

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Rule or condition

When a qualification is measured in credits, a tertiary education organisation must calculate the Equivalent Full-Time Student (EFTS) factor for each course by:

1. dividing the number of credits in the course by the total number of credits in the qualification, then
2. multiplying this number by the EFTS value of the qualification.

The following is provided as an example, and is not part of the Rule:

For a qualification with a total of 60 credits and an EFTS value of 0.5, the EFTS factors of the courses in the qualification are calculated as:

Courses	Credits	Qualification EFTS value	Course EFTS factor
1	24	0.5	24 / 60 x 0.5 = 0.2000
2	20	0.5	20 / 60 x 0.5 = 0.1667
3	16	0.5	16 / 60 x 0.5 = 0.1333
	Credits = 60		EFTS value = 0.5