Anyone know when final years get their degrees?

dpp v mcgee

I finished my exams in May but I'm not going to graduation. When do I get the piece of paper that says I have a bachelor of whatever? Do they send them out in the post?

Ms. Koi

It should give you the info in your graduation pack about not attending and how to get your degree in that case.

dpp v mcgee

When are they sent out?

Ms. Koi

dpp v mcgee wrote: »

When are they sent out?

It says it in the graduation pack if you read it. if not ring conferring office

plumpote

In the FAQ section of the Conferring site:

I could not attend my conferring ceremony - when will I receive my degree parchment?
Approximately ten working days after the ceremonies have taken place through the post.

http://conferring.nuim.ie/faq.shtml#absent

CSSE09

Did you tell them you aren't going either? It's assumed you are showing up.

Alt_Grrr

CSSE09 wrote: »

Did you tell them you aren't going either? It's assumed you are showing up.

You should tell them your not going, but they do a last minute head count before the ceremony so nobody is going to call out your name and wait for you.
They'll just say your name and in absentia.

dpp v mcgee

CSSE09 wrote: »

Did you tell them you aren't going either? It's assumed you are showing up.

Im better off going. Normally I'd boycott such events but Im going to need my degree before I go out abroad. The 10 day waiting period will just create problems not including the time it will take to send it to me.

dpp v mcgee

Is it normally the case that students are seated according to marks? Will I be required to sit beside someone who got a 2.2 or will our ceremonies be even in the same tent?

XxMCRxBabyxX

Students are divided per course and then in alphabetical order. Degree result doesn't come into it.

dpp v mcgee

XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »

Students are divided per course and then in alphabetical order. Degree result doesn't come into it.

what a pitty

mickstupp

Oh I think it's way better that way. I think doing it by marks is incredibly unfair to anyone who didn't do as well as they'd hoped. Everyone in the room knows what you got. Feck that ****. The day should be about the fact that you you got your degree after three or four years of hard work. It's a great a achievement*. It shouldn't be about categorising people by the marks they got, making people feel better or worse than others. /opinion

*though I suppose that depends on the person and whether they bothered working hard enough to consider their degree an achievement or not.

Kiwi_knock

Theology students are called up by their results, plus their results are put in the information booklet for the next year's students so I think it is doubly bad. Your result should be private, it is a mark of your hard work.

XxMCRxBabyxX

Not to mention that what may appear to be a bad grade to one person could be great to another.

PictureFrame

Kiwi_knock wrote: »

Theology students are called up by their results, plus their results are put in the information booklet for the next year's students so I think it is doubly bad. Your result should be private, it is a mark of your hard work.

Seriously? That's absolutely ridiculous.

Ms. Koi

I don't think it's fair that their results are publicly posted. I assume they have permission to do that?

Just a side note, your conferring ceremony takes place in the Aula Maxima, not a tent as you put it.

Alqua

dpp v mcgee wrote: »

Im better off going. Normally I'd boycott such events but Im going to need my degree before I go out abroad. The 10 day waiting period will just create problems not including the time it will take to send it to me.

Just an observation...isn't boycott a bit strong of a word to use? Are the graduation ceremonies some sort of conspiracy for evil?! If you don't want to go, don't go, lot's of people don't - you won't be making a statement by not attending!

The theology results are done like that in the handbook alright - except it's a year behind (I think). So the current first years will have last year's (2012) results in their handbook.

Alt_Grrr

kellief wrote: »

I don't think it's fair that their results are publicly posted. I assume they have permission to do that?

I don't think they require your consent (The Catholic Church hasn't cared much about consent in the past.)

It wasn't too long ago that class results were posted in the newspaper.
Most universities did it.

I suppose it keeps people honest.

XxMCRxBabyxX

Apparently DCU still organise graduates per their place in the class at their graduations!

freeze4real

OK so just graduated and my actual result per the nuim.student web page is not listed on my transcripts or actual degree. Like WTH

How am I meant to prove that I got a 2.1 675% or 1.1 87%

Ms. Koi

freeze4real wrote: »

OK so just graduated and my actual result per the nuim.student web page is not listed on my transcripts or actual degree. Like WTH

How am I meant to prove that I got a 2.1 675% or 1.1 87%

Your result is never printed on your degree. You haven't gotten your transcripts yet, takes a few weeks in the mail.

freeze4real

I asked for my transcripts to be sent out and received it today. Its doesn't state what percentage that I got.

Ms. Koi

Your overall result is all that matters. That percentage doesn't.

XxMCRxBabyxX

You can always give them your exam results print out if they need actual percentages but very few look for that.