Bachelor of Pharmacy with honours award

The Bachelor of Pharmacy degree with honours is awarded for meritorious performance in the four years of the Bachelor of Pharmacy degree. Units which have a numerical mark are considered in the determination of an honours result. Award level is calculated on the basis of a weighted average grade. The weighted grade ranges are as follows:

• H1: 80 per cent < 100 per cent
• H2A: 75 per cent < 79 per cent
• H2B: 70 per cent < 74 per cent

Approved at Education Commitee meeting 1-2009

Calculating the honours score

The Bachelor of Pharmacy with honours award is calculated on the academic performance of students enrolled over their four years of candidature. At each year level, a student receives an 'honours' mark calculated by multiplying the numerical academic mark by the credit point value of the particular unit in all units for that particular year level. The honours score from each semester in the four years of the Bachelor of Pharmacy are added to produce a final overall honours score for each student. All students in the graduating class are then ranked based on this final score. 

The Board of Examiners of the faculty determines the recipients awarded the degree of Bachelor of Pharmacy with honours (Grade of H1, HIIA, or HIIB) which entitles the student to graduate with and to use thereafter the post-nominal of BPharm (Hons).

Note: The honours calculations/formula are also used to determine the Year Level and Gold Medal winners in all undergraduate courses, despite in-course honours only being available for the Bachelor of Pharmacy or Bachelor of Pharmacy/Commerce.  See the Prize Giving policy for details.

Example: First year Pharmacy honours calculation for semester 1 units

Credit and failed unit calculation

Adjustments are made for students who have been granted credit for individual units or for an entire year level.  The score for that year of the course will be:

• the average of the results achieved in the other units (for missing individual units) or
• the average of the results achieved in the other years (for an entire year level)

Numerical adjustments based on the following formula are made for students who have failed and repeated a unit:

• Final attempt (repeated) mark * 0.9