The Deans' List Award
The Deans’ List is an annual award for academic excellence promoted by the four Deans of the University.
Undergraduate students who achieve an outstanding overall result in the course of any academic year will be eligible to be nominated to the Deans’ List, an honour which will appear on their University transcript.
The four Deans are keen to reward the excellence and ambition of the very highest achievers and are certain that future employers and other educational institutions will take a close interest in graduates with one or more Deans’ List citations to their name.
The Deans encourage all students to work towards this award.
Criteria
The criteria for the award are strict. Only students taking no fewer than 120 credits counting towards an approved Degree programme over the course of an academic year will be eligible and all credits have to be taken within the four Faculties of St Andrews.
Study abroad is excluded from the scheme, although incoming students from other Universities will be eligible provided they meet all other criteria.
Students with any trailing credits, or taking reassessments in a given year, are automatically disqualified and anyone who receives a 0X in any module will immediately become ineligible for that year.
Students who have to take a period of leave of absence for medical or personal reasons will retain their eligibility provided they take 120 credits within the completion time stipulated by the Faculty for the academic session that has been interrupted.
Any student who meets all these conditions and who obtains a credit-weighted mean grade of 16.5 or above for the year will be recorded on the Deans' List.
The rules will be adapted for part-time students, who must achieve the minimum credit-weighted mean of 16.5 in 120 credits taken part-time over no more than three academic sessions.
The calculation of grades and selection of students for the list will take place over the summer, and students will be informed of their selection in a letter from the Dean of their Faculty (Arts, Divinity, Medicine or Science). The Deans' selection is final and there will be no right of appeal.