Undergraduate Degree Requirements

A programme leading to a Bachelor’s degree requires a minimum of 120 MCs.  A student will typically take about 3 years to complete such a programme.  A programme leading to a Bachelor’s degree with Honours requires a student to complete a minimum of 160 MCs.  It will usually take a student about 4 years to complete an Honours programme.

To achieve the required credits within 3 or 4 years as indicated above, typically a student would need to complete an average of 20 MCs per semester.  Besides passing the prescribed number of modules, a student must fulfil all other requirements specified by the University and the Faculty/Department in order to graduate.

The limit on the number of Level-1000 modules to be counted towards fulfillment of graduation requirements is 60 MCs for both 120-MC and 160-MC programmes for students admitted from AY2007/08 onwards. Nevertheless, Faculties could set more stringent requirements.

Students who wish to pursue an Honours degree are generally required to complete an Honours thesis/project.

A summary of the basic degree requirements for the Bachelor’s and Bachelor with Honours programmes is tabulated below.

Basic Degree Requirements for the Bachelor’s and Bachelor with Honours Programmes

• For students admitted before AY 2007/08
  

  Degree Requirements	Bachelor’s Degree Programme	Bachelor with Honours Degree Programme
  	MCs	MCs
  University Level(i)
  General Education	8	8
  Singapore Studies	4	4
  Breadth	8	16
  Sub-total	20	28
  Programme
  Faculty	12 – 16	16
  Major	56 – 66	88 – 104
  Sub-total	68 – 82	104 – 120
  Unrestricted Elective Modules	18 – 32	12 – 28
  Minimum MCs required for graduation	120	160

  
  
• For students admitted with effect from AY 2007/08
  

  Degree Requirements	Bachelor’s Degree Programme	Bachelor with Honours Degree Programme
  	MCs		MCs
  University Level(i)
  General Education	8		8
  Singapore Studies	4		4
  Breadth	8		8
  Sub-total	20		20
  Programme
  Faculty	12 – 16		12 - 16
  Major	60 – 72		88 – 110
  Sub-total	72 – 88		100 – 126
  Unrestricted Elective Modules	16 – 28		18 – 36
  Minimum MCs required for graduation	120		160

1. These requirements do not apply to USP Programme.