Degree classification advice?

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Not wishing to be outdone I can report that I got an HND in Business studies, 3 A levels and 9 O levels...ballsed up the Architecture degree though..'gis a job Snapper eh

Noooooo - it's not a competition

 

[radger]

I believe that below a 3rd, you can get awarded a straight degree without the honours bit, but I've never heard of anyone getting one, or may be they don't do them any more. Getting a 3rd or 2.2 would put you at a handicap when trying to find your first job, but after that it hardly matters. Experience and personal attributes matter more. My mate ended up as a project manager.

I think they're ordinary rather than honours degrees - one guy at my graduation got one and he got a special listing in the programme all by himself, rather than with everyone else who'd done the same subject, which I thought was a bit unnecessary.

 

[Dan B]

A 3rd is almost better than a 2.2 Lots of people have 2.2s, but not so many get 3rds. I believe that below a 3rd, you can get awarded a straight degree without the honours bit, but I've never heard of anyone getting one, or may be they don't do them any more

At the end of year three of my four year course, I was told I had an "unclassified honours" degree. "What's that", I asked? "We don't know", my tutors replied. "We've never heard of it before either"

Another year of diligent hard work(sic) and I'd managed to upgrade it to a third.

All that time I spent messing around with computers instead of working (this was just about when the first internet boom was taking off, and I was the first in college to get my PC attached to the internet through the university network) did set me up very nicely for my first job, though.

 

[martinarchtech]

graduate architectural technology

1.1 (distinction) in architectural technology 2009 here for me.
mature student, doing hons degree at moment, the bad part,

no jobs in architecture at moment

 

[karen.488walker]

1.1 (distinction) in architectural technology 2009 here for me.
mature student, doing hons degree at moment, the bad part,

no jobs in architecture at moment

not a problem if you haven't finished your degree yet.

 

[snapper_37]

Not wishing to be outdone I can report that I got an HND in Business studies, 3 A levels and 9 O levels...ballsed up the Architecture degree though..'gis a job Snapper eh

Come up to Wolves then love. Relocation package includes: the Molineux, The Scotlands in rented accomodation, a 1995 Subaru thing as a company car....


and me!

 

[ColinJ]

Wow - I'm sure it was more like a 50:50 split between 2:1 and 2:2 with just 2 3rd's and maybe 4 1sts perhaps in my year.

I think in my case it was something like one 1st, sixteen got 2:1 (including me - grrr, I was 0.2% off a 1st! It bugged me at the time, but now it seems totally irrelevant), sixteen got 2:2 and a couple got 3rds.

 

[Cubist]

My degree was Modern Languages and Political Studies. It had been running ten years when I graduated, and in that time there had only ever been one first awarded. There were abut two 2:1 every year, and of course the majority of us (me included) got a good old drinking student's Desmond. You could go for a straight degree either by failing miserabl;y, or not submitting any dissertations. We had to do three, one in politics and one each in both languages. We had 21 hours of final papers and two one hour oral exams. Any wonder no one ever got a 1st!

 

[Mr Celine]

The science graduate asks "What is it made of?"

The engineering graduate asks "How does it work?"

The accounting graduate asks "How much does it cost?"

The media studies graduate asks "Do you want fries with that?"




Mr Celine, BSc (ordinary)

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Whereas when asked "What is 6.1215634 x 3.1348921?"

the scientist scratches head and says "18 or 19 "
the engineer gets his calculator out and says "19.1904407423091"
the accountant (banker) closes the curtains and whispers "what would you like it to be?"

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Whereas when asked "What is 6.1215634 x 3.1348921?"

the scientist scratches head and says "18 or 19 "
the engineer gets his calculator out and says "19.1904407423091"
the accountant (banker) closes the curtains and whispers "what would you like it to be?"

 

[ColinJ]

Whereas when asked "What is 6.1215634 x 3.1348921?"

the scientist scratches head and says "18 or 19 "
the engineer gets his calculator out and says "19.1904407423091"
the accountant (banker) closes the curtains and whispers "what would you like it to be?"

Shouldn't that be 1,000,000 for me and -999,980.809... for you!

 

[ColinJ]

Whereas when asked "What is 6.1215634 x 3.1348921?"

the scientist scratches head and says "18 or 19 "
the engineer gets his calculator out and says "19.1904407423091"
the accountant (banker) closes the curtains and whispers "what would you like it to be?"

Shouldn't that be 1,000,000 for me and -999,980.809... for you!

 

[Bandini]

What is a 2:2 degree?

It is like a 'C', if you will.

 

[Bandini]

What is a 2:2 degree?

It is like a 'C', if you will.