Honours

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Spending the additional year at University required to complete Honours gives you the opportunity to draw together your early years of study and add significant value to your resume. Honours is very different from earlier undergraduate years, allowing and requiring a greater degree of independence and flexibility that will help develop the maturity and skills for transition to employment in a range of occupations and industries or a research higher degree.

If you are interested in working as a research scientist then it is a general expectation that you will have undertaken an Honours year. The greater exposure to the research process, additional knowledge and wider experiences of Honours graduates are all attractive to employers.

The Melbourne School of Land and Environment offers an Honours year in:

Project proposals detailing the experimental plan and a literature review will be presented before the Honours Panel for discussion and approval prior to commencing experimental work. Students will be required to present seminars on both their project proposal and the outcomes of their research. The expected length of the thesis (including references) will normally be limited to 15 000 words (approximately 50 A4 pages). A list of potential projects is available.

These Honours programs can be undertaken on a full-time or part-time basis. The program can commence either in February or July. February commencement concludes in November. July commencement concludes in May of the following year. Most students study full time and commence in February.

In order to be awarded an Honours qualification, students must pass all components and obtain an overall average mark for the Research Project subject and the Advanced Coursework subjects of at least 65%.

On completion of the Honours year, the School determines the award of Honours degrees on the basis of average mark of the weighted average of all honours-year subjects.

For all enquiries please contact Marc Nicolas.