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Honours degrees

• Also known as an undergraduate or bachelors degree.
• Internationally respected, universally understood.
• An essential requirement for many high-level jobs.
• Gain a thorough understanding of your subject – and the tools to investigate, think critically, form reasoned arguments, solve problems and communicate effectively in new contexts.
• Progress to higher level study, such as a postgraduate diploma or masters degree.

Integrated masters degrees

• Combines study at the level of an undergraduate honours degree with study at postgraduate (masters) level.
• Common in engineering, mathematics and science.
• Often linked to professional body recognition.

Foundation degrees

• Widely recognised qualification.
• Enhance your professional and technical knowledge and skills.
• Equivalent to the first two thirds of an honours degree.
• Use it to support your current role or progress your career.
• Combine work-based learning with academic study – you need to be employed or volunteering in a relevant work setting.
• Top up to an honours degree in just two years.

We offer most of our foundation degrees as diplomas of higher education for students living or working in Scotland.

Diplomas of Higher Education

• Widely recognised qualification.
• Equivalent to the first two thirds of an honours degree.
• Enhance your professional and technical skills or extend your knowledge and understanding of a subject.
• Study for interest or career development.
• Top up to a full honours degree in just two years.

This type of course may be of particular interest if you’re living or working in Scotland.

Certificates of Higher Education

• Widely recognised qualification.
• Equivalent to the first third of an honours degree.
• Study for interest or career development.
• Shows that you can study successfully at university level.
• Count it towards further qualifications such as a foundation degree, DipHE or honours degree.