What is Honours?
At the University of Sydney, most undergraduate degrees may be completed "with Honours". Honours works differently in different faculties and usually involves either the completion of a separate Honours year or additional work in the later years of the course or meritorious achievement over all years of the course.
If you are looking to improve your career prospects, open the door to further academic study, or simply indulge a passion - honours is your next step.
For those faculties where Honours is a research based, academic year taken at the completion of a bachelors degree, gaining entry is competitive and is available regardless of where you studied your undergraduate degree. The additional Honours year is available to students from the following disciplines:
- Arts
- Architecture
- Economics and Business
- Health Sciences
- Information Technologies
- Science
- Visual Arts (Sydney College of the Arts)
In faculties other than those listed above Honours is offered to students after the completion of additional work in the later years of the course or meritorious achievement over all years of the course. You should check the website of the Faculty in your area of interest for more information.
