Irzani, yes, first class honours (H1) allows the student to "jump" to PhD in many universities, although it also depends on how your honours year was conducted. Some also allow (though more difficult) H2A applicants.

Cambridge offers PhD with entry requirements being first class honours degree. So you're saying Cambridge isn't good or reputable enough?

My former university, (Monash) and Melbourne uni also offers the same. I'm intending to do the same jump (1st class hons to PhD) but had to defer applying for PhD cos of time & financial constraint.

Essentially, a proper honours year should contain a research component which the student has to complete as part of the assessment and write a dissertation on it.

So as long as you get 1st class hons and in your hons year you wrote a dissertation, you are eligible to *apply*. Whether you are accepted into entry is another thing altogether.

This post has been edited by djspinnet: Feb 29 2008, 04:35 PM