A programme leading to a Bachelor's degree requires a minimum of 120 units. 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 units. It will usually take a student about 4 years to complete an Honours programme. To achieve the required units within 3 or 4 years as indicated above, typically a student would need to complete an average of 20 units per semester. Besides passing the prescribed number of courses, 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 courses to be counted towards fulfillment of graduation requirements is 60 units for both 120-unit and 160-unit programmes, excluding:
- CFG1002 Career Catalyst (2 units)#
- CFG1004 Financial Wellbeing – Art and Science of Investing (2 units)#
- CFG1500 Women's Professional Development Programme (2 units)#
- ES1103 English for Academic Purposes (4 units).
- Courses under the Design-Your-Own-Course (DYOC) initiative.
- HS1301 Workplace Communication (2 units)^.
#Exclusion of CFG1002, CFG1004, CFG1500 from the limit on Level-1000 courses is applicable to:
- BIZ, FASS, FoS, SoC, SDE, and FoE students from Cohort AY2016/17 onwards.
^Exclusion of HS1301 from the limit on Level-1000 courses is applicable to:
- CHS students from Cohort AY2021/22 onwards.
Nevertheless, Faculties/Schools 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 AY2015/16
|
Degree Requirements
|
Bachelor's Degree Programme
|
Bachelor with Honours Degree Programme
|
| Units
|
Units
|
|
University Level*
|
|
General Education
|
8
|
8
|
|
Singapore Studies
|
4
|
4
|
|
Breadth
|
8
|
8
|
|
Sub-total
|
20
|
20
|
|
Programme
|
|
Faculty
|
12 – 16
|
16
|
|
Major
|
60 – 72
|
88 – 110
|
|
Sub-total
|
72 – 88
|
100 – 126
|
|
Unrestricted Elective Courses
|
16 – 28
|
18 – 36
|
|
Minimum units required for graduation
|
120
|
160
|
For students admitted from AY2015/16
|
Degree Requirements
|
Bachelor's Degree Programme
|
Bachelor with Honours Degree Programme
|
| Units
|
Units
|
|
University Level*
|
|
|
|
General Education
|
20
|
20
|
|
Sub-total
|
20
|
20
|
|
Programme
|
|
|
|
Faculty
|
12 – 16
|
12 - 16
|
|
Major
|
60 – 72
|
88 – 110
|
|
Sub-total
|
72 – 88
|
100 – 126
|
|
Unrestricted Elective Courses
|
16 – 28
|
18 – 36
|
|
Minimum units required for graduation
|
120
|
160
|
* These requirements do not apply to USP Programme.
The tables above are generally not applicable to programmes offered by Dentistry, Law and Medicine. Though not required to do so, students from these Faculties may read General Education, Singapore Studies or disciplinary courses for enrichment purposes.