Principles

• Honours are awarded for the UNSW BE degrees in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, and Bioinformatics on the basis of a computed Weighted Average Mark (WAM).
   
• The CSE WAM is calculated to one decimal place and is not rounded up or down for the purposes of awarding honours.
   
• Results for all courses undertaken as part of the BE degree are included in WAM calculations. (Courses taken as part of another degree in a joint or combined-degree program are not included).
   
• Courses completed at another university either prior to or during enrolment at CSE are not used. Eg. cross-institutional enrolment, exchange programs, or courses for which advanced standing was granted on admission.
   
• The list of included courses used in the calculation comprises all published core and elective courses, past and present, for the BE program.
   
• In the case of repeated attempts at a course, it is the first attempt returning a numerical mark which is counted (Note: AF & DF returns 0)
   
• Each course has a fixed Course Weight (based on Units of Credit), and a fixed Stage Weight (between 1 and 4 - related to the stage at which most students take the course).
   
• All General Education courses have a Stage Weight of 1.
   
• The year in the degree when a course is actually taken is irrelevant.
   
• Courses substituted for included courses are ignored, unless they themselves are included courses.
   
• Retrospective requests about including or excluding particular results are ignored.
   
• There are a small number of known special cases, which are taken into account in WAM calculations.