Bournemouth University degree calculator and rules

Bournemouth's rules in plain English

These are estimates using the published rules. Your exam board makes the final decision.

• First year counts 0. Level 5 (second year) counts 30% and Level 6 (final year) 70%. A placement year or a foundation year counts 0, and a student who joins at Level 6 is classified on Level 6 alone (11.5).
• Every Level 5 and Level 6 unit counts: no credits are left out (11.5).
• Your aggregate within 1% of a boundary gets the higher class, so 69% is a First, 59% a 2:1, 49% a 2:2 and 39% a Third (11.5).
• Mark profile: an aggregate up to 3 marks below 70, 60 or 50 gets the higher class when at least 80 of your Level 6 credits are in it. A First from 67% with 80 final-year credits at 70%+, a 2:1 from 57% with 80 at 60%+, a 2:2 from 47% with 80 at 50%+ (11.5).
• You get whichever of the two ways gives the better class (11.5). There is no discretion below 67, 57 or 47: the exam board cannot lift a student who just misses the profile (6L Assessment Board Decision-Making Procedure, 5.13: https://newintranetsp.bournemouth.ac.uk/pandptest/6l-assessment-board-decision-making-procedure.pdf).
• An honours degree needs 360 credits, at least 100 of them at Level 6 (10.6). A unit failed at 38.0% to 39.9% on a first attempt can be compensated, up to 40 credits a level, when no element is below 36.0% and the rest of the level is passed; it keeps its real mark (7.1, 7.2).
• A reassessed element counts at no more than 40% (12.5), and a repeated unit or a failed unit carried into the next level at no more than 40% overall (12.7, 12.11). Enter those marks as capped.

Year weights by course

Who this does not cover

• This is version 19.0 for 2025-26; a 2026-27 version was not published at the same address when checked.
• 6A does not say whether unit marks or the aggregate are rounded, so they are used unrounded: 68.96% is short of the 69% that the 1% rule needs.
• "Within 1% of the classification boundary" is read as 1 mark below it, from 69.0, the way 6L 5.13 reads the mark profile's "3 marks" as 67.0.
• A unit counts toward the mark profile when its own mark is at or above the higher boundary; 6A does not say the 1% rule applies to unit marks.
• Programmes with approved exceptions, such as for a professional body, follow their programme specification instead (1.3).
• Integrated masters courses (Level 5 15%, Level 6 35%, Level 7 50%, with no Third and a profile on Level 7 credits) use separate regulations and are not covered.
• Units studied on exchange or credited through RPL carry no mark, and classification uses the Bournemouth units only (1.3).
• Degree apprenticeships grade the End Point Assessment unit as 75%, 65%, 55% or 0% for the calculation, unless the standard says otherwise (11.7).

Source: 6A Standard Assessment Regulations: Undergraduate Programmes, version 19.0 for 2025-26 (sections 1.3, 7, 10.6, 11.5, 11.7 and 12), with the 6L Assessment Board Decision-Making Procedure (5.13). Checked 23 October 2026. If your programme handbook says something different, it wins.