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Most British bachelor's degrees are honours degrees and indicated by putting "(Hons)" after the degree abbreviation. A student achieving a pass grade, below honours standard, may be awarded an "ordinary degree" or a "pass degree" and may not add "(Hons)".
Bachelor of Dental Surgery/Science BDS, BDSc, BDent Bachelor of Laws: LLB Bachelor's degree with Honours: B"Speciality"(Hons) Master of "Speciality/Faculty" M"Specialty" e.g. MA, MSc, MEd, MCom, etc. Master of Business Administration: MBA Master of Cyber Security MCyberSec Master of Cyber Security, Strategy and Diplomacy MCSSD Master of Laws: LLM
Post-nominal letters are used in the United Kingdom after a person's name in order to indicate their positions, qualifications, memberships, or other status. There are various established orders for giving these, e.g. from the Ministry of Justice, Debrett's, and A & C Black's Titles and Forms of Address, which are generally in close agreement.
A bachelor's degree can be an honours degree (bachelor's with honours) or an ordinary degree (bachelor's without honours). Honours degrees are classified, usually based on a weighted average (with higher weight given to marks in the later years of the course, and often zero weight to those in the first year) of the marks gained in exams and other assessments.
Name Post-nominal Reference Doctor Honoris Causa: Dr.h.c. [11]Doctor of the University: D.Univ. [1] [10]Honorary Doctor of Arts: Hon. D.A. [12]Honorary Doctor of Arts and Humane Letters
At the University of Zimbabwe, the first degree in common law was the Bachelor of Laws (BL), which was equivalent to the LLB in other common law jurisdictions. It was followed by a one-year programme at the university (analogous to post-LLB vocational programmes in other common law jurisdictions) at the end of which a second degree, the ...
Honours are listed first in descending order of precedence, followed by degrees and memberships of learned societies in ascending order. Some obsolete positions are not listed unless recipients who continue to use the post-nominals even after the order becomes obsolete are still living.
In England, Wales and Northern Ireland, bachelor's degrees are normally awarded "with honours" after three years of study. [20] The bachelor's degree with honours meets the requirements for a higher education qualification at level 6 of the Framework for Higher Education Qualifications in full, [21] and is a first-cycle, end-of-cycle award on the Qualifications Framework of the European Higher ...