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Postgraduate Taught Assessment Regulations

The Postgraduate Taught Assessment Regulations (PGTAR) set out rules for assessment including outcomes, progression, and award eligibility and classification.

Regulations

These regulations apply to:

Engineering & Design

Starting Oct 25 or later:

  • MSc Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Starting Oct 23 or later:

  • MSc Eng Business Management

All other courses starting Oct 22 or later

Humanities & Social Sciences

All courses starting Oct 24 or later and

  • Clinical Associate in Psychology

Science

These courses starting Oct 25 or later:

  • MSc Comp Science/Data Science/Statistics and Data Science
  • MSc Financial Maths with Data Science
  • PG Cert/Dip Statistical Applied Maths
  • MSc Advanced Machine Learning
  • MSc Artificial Intelligence
  • PG Cert/PG Dip/MRes Sustainable Chem Technologies

These courses starting Oct 24 or later:

  • MSc Drug Discovery
  • MSc Biotechnology (Healthcare Technologies/Sustainable Biotechnologies/with Entrepreneurship)
  • MSc Molecular Biosciences (Bioinformatics/Medical Biosciences/ Microbiology)
  • Integrated PhD Molecular Biosciences
  • Integrated PhD Biotechnology

Management

These courses starting Oct 25 or later:

  • MBA
  • MRes

And all MSc courses starting Oct 23 or later

Exemptions

See documents below for agreed exemptions from PGTAR

Further information

Information on assessment regulations for all other postgraduate taught courses

Exit awards PG Cert and PG Dipl

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