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n. a university degree with honors [syn: honours]
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The term Honours degree has different meanings in the context of different degrees and education systems. Most commonly it refers to a variant of the undergraduate bachelor's degree containing a larger volume of material or a higher standard of study, or both, than an "ordinary", "general" or "pass" bachelor's degree. Honours degrees are sometimes indicated by "Hons" after the degree abbreviation, with various punctuation according to local custom, e.g. "BA (Hons)", "B.A., Hons", etc.
Examples of honours degree include the honors bachelor's degree in the United States, the bachelor's degree with honours in the United Kingdom and India, the honours bachelor degree in Ireland, the honours bachelor's degree in Canada, and the bachelor honours degree in Australia. In South Africa the bachelor honours degree is a postgraduate degree that follows on from the completion of a bachelor's degree. The undergraduate master of arts degree awarded by the ancient universities of Scotland on place of the bachelor of arts may be awarded as an honours or non-honours degree, these are at the same level as equivalent bachelor's degrees. At master's level, the "integrated master's" degrees in British universities, which students enter at the same level as bachelor's degrees, are also honours degrees.
Many universities and colleges offer both honours and non-honours bachelor's degrees. In most countries where honours degrees are granted, they imply a higher level of achievement than a non-honours degree. In some countries (e.g. Canada or Australia), an honours degree may also involve a longer period of study than a non-honours degree. Students who complete all the requirements for a non-honours bachelor's degree but do not receive sufficient merit to be awarded the honours degree would normally be awarded the non-honours degree (also known as a "pass", "general" or "ordinary" degree). In England, Northern Ireland and Wales, almost all bachelor's degrees are awarded as honours degrees; in contrast, honours degrees are rarely awarded in the United States.
The current British undergraduate degree classification system, with its division into first, upper and lower second, and third class honours, was developed in 1918 to distinguish between students on the basis of their academic achievement. The concept of an "honours" degree goes back a lot further than this, however, with there being examinations for honours in the original regulations of the University of London in 1839, and Nevil Maskelyne being recorded as taking a bachelor's degree with honours at Cambridge in 1754. Other countries influenced by this system include Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Malta, Singapore, South Africa and Hong Kong.
Usage examples of "honours degree".
Graduating from Cambridge University in 1966 with an honours degree in biological sciences, he took a post at the University's Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, where he worked for seventeen years.
No student in his year had been given a highest honours degree and he had been one of only three Firsts.
After receiving a first class Honours degree in English and a research degree from Oxford, he lectured in literature for several years in Tanzania and Tokyo.
After the war, he gained an English Honours degree at Glasgow University, and became a school master.
Born in Bangalore and educated at various Catholic schools in England, she obtained a first-class Honours degree at Cambridge, and after a brief period in publishing is now the writer and presenter of her own TV series, Jemima Shore Investigates, which has probed a number of controversial issues from women's rights to racial conflict, housing shortages to juvenile crimealong the way winning a number of awards and making her a major television personality.
Morgan was a white-faced Welshman whose only qualifications for being in the department were an honours degree in biology and an uncle in the Foreign Office.
A first-class honours degree in jurisprudence at Oxford, President of the Union, and a bencher at Lincoln's Inn.
He was late forties and six feet three, with a mangy black forelock, a First Class Honours degree in something useless and a permanent smirk that should never be mistaken for a smile.
After the war, he gained an English Honours degree at Glasgow University, and became a schoolmaster.