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Graduation Honours

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Graduation Honours

The following sections describe honours that may be conferred at graduation.

Programs, Courses and University Regulations—2018-2019 (last updated Aug. 16, 2018) (disclaimer)

Graduation Honours: Dean's Honour List for Continuing Studies Students

Graduation Honours: Dean's Honour List for Continuing Studies Students

If you are graduating with an undergraduate degree, you may be awarded the designation Dean's Honour List under the following conditions:

  1. you have completed a minimum of 60 Â鶹AV credits toward your degree; and
  2. you are in the top 10% of the faculty's graduating class of students; this calculation is based on the CGPA.
Note for Transfer Students: This designation may be withdrawn if your CGPA at another university or in another faculty at Â鶹AV is not comparable to the CGPA earned in your graduating faculty.
Note for Continuing Studies Students: If you are graduating from a certificate or a diploma program, you may be awarded the designation of Dean's Honour List if you have completed a minimum of 21 Â鶹AV credits toward your certificate (residency requirement) and are in the top 10% of your graduating class (calculation based on the CGPA).
Programs, Courses and University Regulations—2018-2019 (last updated Apr. 19, 2018) (disclaimer)

Graduation Honours: Distinction for Continuing Studies Students

Graduation Honours: Distinction for Continuing Studies Students

If you are graduating with an undergraduate degree, you may be awarded the designation Distinction under the following conditions:

  1. you have completed a minimum of 60 Â鶹AV credits toward your degree; and
  2. you are in the top 25%, but below the top 10%, of your faculty's graduating class of students; this calculation is based on the CGPA.
Note for Transfer Students: This designation may be withdrawn if your CGPA at another university or in another faculty at Â鶹AV is not comparable to the CGPA earned in your graduating faculty.
Note: The Faculties of Education, Dentistry, Law, Medicine, the Ingram School of Nursing, and the School of Continuing Studies do not assign the designation of Distinction to graduating students.
Note: the designation of Great Distinction is no longer awarded at graduation. Prior to September 2009, Distinction and Great Distinction were awarded at graduation according to faculty-specific regulations. You can find these rules in the faculty chapters of the 2008–2009 Undergraduate Programs Calendar or any earlier version at www.mcgill.ca/students/courses/calendars.
Programs, Courses and University Regulations—2018-2019 (last updated Apr. 19, 2018) (disclaimer)
Programs, Courses and University Regulations—2018-2019 (last updated Aug. 16, 2018) (disclaimer)
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