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Honours system for graduate degrees

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  • 24-08-2017 8:13pm
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    TheZenMonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 48 ✭


    I am having a comically/tragically difficult time discovering the answer to what I thought was a simple question.

    I am American. I have completed a MA in Gaelic Literature from UCC and will graduate in the spring. My marks, including dissertation, are 80% or higher. I understand that this would translate to "first-class honours" if it were an undergraduate degree. What I cannot get an answer to is this: what type of honour/distinction/etc. would be afforded a *graduate* degree with these marks?

    I have queried UCC on this at least five different times and every. single. time. the only response I get is the Irish equivalent to the undergraduate American GPA system. I don't think anyone is paying attention to my actual question: with what honour/distinction/etc. -- if any -- will I graduate in the spring as a Master of Arts? Is it "first" as in undergrad, or is there a different system for graduate degrees?

    Thank you for any help you can provide.


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    Yoop_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 68 ✭✭Yoop_


    You will have a first class honours degree. All the grading information for all courses is in the Marks and Standards section of the College Calendar.

    https://www.ucc.ie/admin/registrar/marksandstandards/2017CACSSS.pdf

    Page 386 for your MA.


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    TheZenMonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 48 ✭TheZenMonkey


    Yoop, thank you so much! If only anybody I'd asked at UCC ever pointed me to this document. (Yes, to be fair, it's a bit of a travesty I couldn't locate it on my own; clearly there's some things book-larnin' -- as they call it here -- just can't help.) I appreciate you going to the extent of finding the very page number for me.


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    Yoop_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 68 ✭✭Yoop_


    TheZenMonkey wrote: »
    Yoop, thank you so much! If only anybody I'd asked at UCC ever pointed me to this document. (Yes, to be fair, it's a bit of a travesty I couldn't locate it on my own; clearly there's some things book-larnin' -- as they call it here -- just can't help.) I appreciate you going to the extent of finding the very page number for me.

    No problem at all. Well done on the great result :)


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