Cum Laude

1. The Board of Examiners will determine whether or not the Bachelor’s degree certificate will be awarded an honours predicate. 

2. The following conditions apply:
a. The mark for the thesis must satisfy the following minimum conditions: 
- ‘Cum laude’: the mark for the thesis must be at least 8.
- ‘Summa cum laude’: the mark for the thesis must be at least 9.0.
b. The weighted average (not rounded, with 1 decimal after the comma) for all course units, including the thesis, within the examination programme approved by the Board of Examiners must be 
- Greater than or equal to 8.0 for ‘Cum laude’,
- Greater than or equal to 9.0 for ‘Summa cum laude’.

3. No honours are awarded if the student workload of the exemptions in ECTS credit points is more than half the total number of ECTS for the degree programme. This stipulation does not apply to Double Degree programmes.

4. Honours may only be awarded if the examinations for the course units were taken only once.

5. Honours may only be awarded if no single course unit was awarded a mark less than 7.0.

6. No honours will be awarded if a decision by the Board of Examiners has been taken to the effect that a student is no longer eligible for an honours predicate because cheating or plagiarism has been detected.

7. The Board of Examiners may deviate part from the provisions set out

No, at Spatial Sciences the weighted average is not rounded off. For Cum Laude, your weighted average (with 1 decimal after the comma) must be 8,0 or highter without rounding off.