Special Advanced Standing and admission arrangements for Polytechnic Students
Policy: | All New Generation Undergraduate Degrees (and the revised BE) |
This policy should be read in conjunction with the Advanced Standing Policy.
The principles governing the policy:
Suitably qualified applicants should be award the highest possible amount of credit, subject to their future study intentions, whilst maintaining the integrity of the academic program itself.
Background
The University has agreements with certain South-East Asian Polytechnics and, as part of the relationship, has established specific articulation pathways from specific Diplomas into undergraduate degrees at the University of Melbourne.
In general, the University is committed to offering suitably qualified articulating Polytechnic Diploma students admission to undergraduate degrees with advanced standing. The amount of advanced standing granted depends on:
- the diploma from which the student is articulating,
- the studies undertaken within the diploma, and
- the intentions of the student with regard to their major and/or breadth studies at the University of Melbourne.
Maximum advanced standing to be offered
The University will provide students with the maximum credit possible. The absolute maximum credit towards a New generation Undergraduate degree (and towards the revised BE) is 150 points towards core discipline study and 50 points towards degree breadth requirements.
A student may not be offered credit towards the third year (level 3) studies of a New Generation degree course.
A student completing a concurrent diploma may be offered up to 50 points credit towards the diploma, however the maximum credit awarded to the student (towards the concurrent diploma AND their substantive degree) for completed Polytechnic Diploma studies remains a maximum of 200 points.