To award honours to a student, the University normally employs a ‘50% rule’, which mandates that at least half of the credits of a degree curriculum should be letter-graded. That is, if the programme requires 240 credits for graduation, a student is required to have at least 120 letter-graded credits in order to have honours. A student with fewer than half the total credits letter-graded will normally be awarded a pass degree with no honours classification.