Guidance notes: Principle 15 Postgraduate Course Structures

Principles

15.1   For Graduate Certificate courses, the essential set is 32 points.
15.2   For Graduate Diploma courses, the essential set is at least 32 points.
15.3   For Masters (Coursework) courses, the essential set is at least 64 points.
15.4   Where a Masters (Coursework) course is intended as a pathway to doctoral research, it must enable students to demonstrate research preparedness by having an opportunity to undertake a research component weighted at 16 points or more.

Rationale/Policy link

  • This structure is intended to provide the required depth and breadth requirements in PG degrees.

Other guiding information

  • Resources exist to help explain these course structures:

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