What's a honours degree??

[Greatness]

I'm currently reseraching different uni courses taht may intrest me and i've seen quite a few 'honours degrees' such as 'Honours degree of Bachelor of Science'
How are these different to a 'Bachelor of Science?'
Im new to this uni stuff

[burbs]

I think its one step further.
Bachelor->Honours->Masters->PHD

[eeps]

The difference is that an honours degree is referring to a university degree that is of a higher standard or more specialised than a general degree.

i.e. General Degree: B.A, B.Sc., B.Com etc, whereas... Honours Degree: B.A (Hons), B.Sc. (Hons), B.Com (Hons)

Internet.

[Greatness]

Does that mean it would be 'harder' to get into that degree?

[98.40_for_sure]

An honours year is one tacked onto the end of your degree. If you achieve high enough marks during your degree, you can complete the (example) 4th year in a biomed degree and you get BBiomedSc(Hons). After that you can do PhD etc

[Greatness]

Riiiiggghhhhttt..... lol thanks for the help guys i hate being noob at this stuff

[TrueLight]

haha exactly what everyone else said
you can do it after your three years of BSc if you get avg of >70 at monash
its what im trying to get into....

[Greatness]

haha exactly what everyone else said
you can do it after your three years of BSc if you get avg of >70 at monash
its what im trying to get into....

yeah that course looks alright does getting a honours degree open up more job aspects or something???
good luck with taht!!

[98.40_for_sure]

If you're trying to go for a post grad, say medicine for example and you don't get in... are you really gonna sit around for 1 year doing nothing? you do an honours year and reapply the next year. Rumour has it that one with honours has a better chance of getting in. Don't quote me on this though.

Oh and also if your GPA looks like monkey balls because you screwed up in first year, do an honours year to bring it up. Not sure how it's weighted though.

But mainly those aiming for research generally do an honours

[TrueLight]

haha exactly what everyone else said
you can do it after your three years of BSc if you get avg of >70 at monash
its what im trying to get into....

yeah that course looks alright does getting a honours degree open up more job aspects or something???
good luck with taht!!

well thats one reason i want to do it

yeah ive heard that too 99.95 maybe cause its easier to get a higher gpa...with hard work of course but i have a gut feeling its hard to get <70 in honours unless you really bum out

if you want to do research then yep you pretty much have to do honours especially here in australia, everything is so super competitive and if u want one day to start your own lab then u gotta do phd but before that you must do honours (or masters instead depending...)

[98.40_for_sure]

Good luck TrueLight! you the shit

[TrueLight]

heh   thanks

im not even sure i can get in...i just have to wait and see
because the project i put first...i cant do now but ah just got to see

if i dont then might do masters pt1 or...i dunno!

[Greatness]

hmm i dont think reserach or working in the lab is my sort of thing :/

aerospace engineering has really caught my attention

[98.40_for_sure]

If this topic was "What's a masters degree??", how would you answer it?
I'm a little fuzzy on it

[TrueLight]

enwiabe is doing that he will be better at answering questions relating to Bsc and aerospace engineering