What is an Honours Year program at Monash?
“Honours” has different meanings within different faculties. Within the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Honours is a one year program that builds upon a three-year undergraduate degree, giving selected students an opportunity to enhance their previous studies and to focus on innovative research and more specialised learning. Within the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences most undergraduate degrees may be completed “with Honours”. Honours works differently in different degrees but involves either the completion of a separate Honours year or additional work in the later years of the course or meritorious achievement over all years of the course. For most degrees Honours is a research based, academic year taken at the completion of a bachelors degree. Gaining entry is competitive and is based on academic merit.
