Find out how to apply for your desired Honours program
There are two ways a bachelor degree may be awarded with honours:
- a bachelor degree with honours that involves four or more years of study, or
- an additional year of honours study after completing a three-year bachelor degree.
How you apply for honours at Griffith depends on the type of honours program you wish to study.
Here you can also find information on changing your honours program, honours research guidelines and progression to a PhD.
Types of honours programs
The University offers three models of honours programs, with different application methods for each.
Concurrent honours
In a concurrent honours program, you embark on a four-year (or more) bachelor degree with honours. In other words, you apply for honours with your bachelor degree.
Applications are made via QTAC or UAC.
Embedded honours
With embedded honours programs, you begin a bachelor degree at Griffith and at some point apply to transfer to a related bachelor degree with honours.
Applications are made via internal transfer.
End-on honours
End-on honours programs are one-year degrees that you undertake after graduating from a bachelor degree in the same discipline.
Applications are made via Degree Finder.
How to apply
Key dates
Please refer to key dates for application closing dates.
For other key dates, including open enrolment for your trimester, please refer to the Academic Calendar.
Changes to your program
If you've already enrolled, you can apply to make changes to your honours program if you need to:
- revise your program of study
- change your dissertation title or supervisors
- take leave of absence
- cancel your enrolment.
If you have not started your honours year, or have discontinued your studies, you must submit a new application.
We recommend speaking to your program director before applying for the latest information on potential supervisors and projects.
If you are looking to recommence your studies in an embedded or concurrent honours degree after you withdrew from the program, you may be able to apply for readmission.
See the readmission page for more information.
Honours research guidelines
Ethical clearance
If you intend to use human or animal subjects as part of your research, you must discuss ethics clearance with your supervisor as soon as practicable. Allow around eight weeks for the processing of ethics clearance.
Animal research
All research involving animals or animal tissue will first need to be considered and cleared by the Griffith University Ethics Committee for Experimentation on Animals.
Human research
Much of the research involving humans requires the approval of the Griffith University Human Research Ethics Committee. Check with your supervisor and the Griffith University Guide for Research Involving Human Participation to find out whether your research will require such approval.
For ethics guidelines and application forms for honours research, see the Griffith Office for Research.
Your pathway to a PhD
Your Honours degree is a direct pathway into a PhD or other research degree at Griffith.
A research degree is a postgraduate degree which primarily involves completing a supervised project of original research. Completing a research program is your opportunity to make a substantial contribution to, and develop a critical understanding of, a specific discipline or area of professional practice. The most common research program is a Doctor of Philosophy, or PhD which is the highest level of education that can be achieved. It will also give you the title of Dr.
Griffith University provides all of these benefits to our research candidates as well as offering generous scholarships covering living expenses and tuition.
A research degree at Griffith will broaden your horizons. More than building specific research skills, a Griffith research degree will seek to develop you into an agile, resilient member of the knowledge economy.
