Progress to the second year of an undergraduate degree - degree options

On successful completion of the Undergraduate Certificate, students can progress directly on to the second year of an undergraduate degree at Heriot-Watt University.

Choosing a degree

During the first term of the Undergraduate Certificate, students are given a great deal of advice about their degree options at Heriot-Watt. Each student has a personal tutor who helps the student to choose the degree programme that they would like to progress on to. The university will then issue a 'conditional offer' meaning that the student will have a place on the second year of their chosen degree providing that they achieve a specific overall grade and English grade in the Undergraduate Certificate.  

Progression requirements

The tables below shows the degree options for students to progress on to on completion of the Undergraduate Certificate in:

• Business and Management
• Engineering 
• Mathematics, Computer Science and Information Systems 

Subject route	Available degree programmes	Overall grade for second year entry	English grade
Business and Management	Accountancy and Business Law BA/MA	65%	65%
	Accountancy and Finance BA/MA	65%	65%
	Business and Finance BA/MA	65%	65%
	Economics BA/MA	65%	65%
	Economics and Accountancy BA/MA	65%	65%
	Economics and Business Law BA/MA	65%	65%
	Economics and Finance BA/MA	65%	65%
	Economics and Business Management BA/MA	65%	65%
	Economics and Marketing BA/MA	65%	65%
	Business Management BA/MA	65%	65%
	Business Management with Enterprise BA/MA	65%	65%
	Business Management with Business Law MA	65%	65%
	Business Management with Human Resource Management MA	65%	65%
	Business Management with Marketing MA	65%	65%
	International Business Management MA	65%	65%
	Planning and Property Development BSc	65%	65%
	Psychology (applied) BSc	65%	65%
	Psychology BSc	65%	65%
	Psychology with Management BSc	65%	65%
Engineering	Automotive Engineering BEng	65%	65%
	Architectural Engineering BEng/MEng	65%	65%
	Chemical Engineering + Diploma in Industrial Training BEng/MEng	65%	65%
	Civil Engineering BEng/MEng	65%	65%
	Civil Engineering with International Studies MEng	65%	65%
	Structural Engineering BEng/MEng	65%	65%
	Structural Engineering with Architectural Design BEng/MEng	65%	65%
	Structural Engineering with International Studies MEng	65%	65%
	Construction Project Management BSc	65%	65%
	Quantity Surveying BSc	65%	65%
	Chemical Engineering BEng/MEng	65%	65%
	Chemical Engineering with Energy Engineering MEng	65%	65%
	Chemical Engineering with Pharmaceutical Chemistry MEng	65%	65%
	Chemical Engineering with Oil and Gas Technology MEng	65%	65%
	Chemistry with Materials BSc/MChem	65%	65%
	Chemistry with Nanotechnology MChem	65%	65%
	Computational Physics BSc/MPhys	65%	65%
	Computing and Electronics BEng	65%	65%
	Electrical and Electronic Engineering BEng/MEng	65%	65%
	Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Real time control and robotics) BEng	65%	65%
	Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Microwaves and Photonics Engineering)BEng	65%	65%
	Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Sustainable Energy Systems) BEng	65%	65%
	Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Power and High Voltage Engineering) BEng	65%	65%
	Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Mobile and Digital Communications) BEng	65%	65%
	Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Computer and Internet Engineering) BEng	65%	65%
	Engineering Physics BSc/MPhys	65%	65%
	Mechanical Engineering BEng/MEng	65%	65%
	Mechanical Engineering and Energy Engineering BEng/MEng	65%	65%
	Nanoscience BSc/MPhys	65%	65%
	Photonics and Lasers BSc/MPhys	65%	65%
	Physics BSc/MPhys	65%	65%
	Physics with Electronic Engineering BSc/MPhys	65%	65%
	Physics with Environmental Science BSc	65%	65%
Mathematics, Computer Science and Information Systems	Computer Science BSc	65%	65%
	Information Systems BSc	65%	65%
	Mathematics BSc	65%	65%
	Mathematics and Computer Science BSc	65%	65%
	Mathematics with Physics BSc	65%	65%
	Software Engineering BSc	65%	65%
	Mathematics with Statistics BSc	65%	65%

* subject to validation 

The Masters courses listed on this page (MA, MEng, MChem, MPhys) are 4-year or 5-year undergraduate degrees.

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