Course credits and intensity

For part-time courses, you must enter the number of credits students will gain when they complete the entire course. This will let us accurately assess their eligibility for Part-time Maintenance Loan funding.

You must not enter the number of credits students get in an individual academic year.

For example, when you upload a 3 year honours degree, please enter 360 credits. This is the total course credits a student would receive for their entire course. You will find a table with examples of common course credits and their corresponding course durations on the Common credits for a full course page.

A common error is attributing no credit value to foundation or placement years. Integral foundation, study abroad and work placement years are not a requirement to receive the honours degree. We understand that they do not traditionally have a credit value attached because of this. However, we need one to accurately assess the student’s support entitlement.

You should add an additional standard year's worth of credits to the course in this case.