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Encyclopedia > First degree

An undergraduate degree (sometimes called a first degree or simply a degree) is the most common and lowest academic degree available and is normally studied at a higher education institution, such as a university. This article is about academic degrees. ... Higher education is education provided by universities and other institutions that award academic degrees, such as university colleges, and liberal arts colleges. ... A professor giving a lecture at the Helsinki University of Technology A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees. ...


By far the most common type of undergraduate degree is the bachelor's degree, which typically takes three or four years to complete. A bachelors degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts three or four years. ...


A student following an undergraduate degree programme is known as an undergraduate because they have not yet graduated (received a degree). Once they have graduated, undergraduate degrees allow their holders to get a better job than they would otherwise be able to get or continue into postgraduate education. Students attending a lecture at the Helsinki University of Technology Etymologically derived through Middle English from the Latin second-type conjugation verb stŭdērĕ, which means to direct ones zeal at; hence a student is one who directs zeal at a subject. ... In some educational systems, an undergraduate is a post-secondary student pursuing a Bachelors degree. ... Academic procession during the University of Canterbury graduation ceremony. ... Quaternary education or postgraduate education is the fourth-stage educational level which follows the completion of an undergraduate degree at a college or university. ...


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The two Tripos criterion for a "double first", even in vaguely related subjects as English and History, is a much higher hurdle than simply repeating the same performance in competition with the same students in a Part II of the same Tripos.
A candidate who is unable to take his or her exams because of illness can sometimes be awarded an aegrotat degree; this is an honours degree without classification, awarded on the understanding that had the candidate not been unwell, he or she would have passed.
A candidate for a postgraduate master's degree is usually required to have at least a 2:2 degree, although candidates with 2:1s are in a considerably stronger position to gain a place on a postgraduate course and to gain funding.
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