University of Bristol
degree classification calculator
Quick answer: Bristol’s year weightings are set by faculty, not by programme and not by best outcome. Arts, Law and Social Sciences uses 0 : 40 : 60 across the three years; Science and Engineering and Health and Life Sciences use 0 : 25 : 75 — except Psychological Science, which is carved back out at 0 : 40 : 60. Pick your own row in the calculator — on identical marks the two weightings can give different classes. Your mark is rounded to a whole number before the boundary is checked, so 69.5 becomes 70 and a First is awarded outright, and a mark of 68–69 still reaches a First if half your weighted counting credits are at 70 or above.
Bristol degree classification calculator
0 : 40 : 60 or 0 : 25 : 75, by facultyRegulation 30.57 sets the weighting by faculty. It is a property of your programme, not a choice — and not the better of the two.
Year 1 — does not count
Year 2 — penultimate year
Year 3 — final year
What do I need for a First?
Enter the marks you already have above. These boxes are the credits still to come in each year: a year with no marks yet is counted as all still to come. Change them if that is not right for you.
| Class | Mark needed in every remaining module |
|---|
Class boundaries
| Class | Weighted mark | Uplift rule |
|---|---|---|
| First class honours | 70% or above | or 68% with at least 50% of weighted counting credits at 70% or above |
| Second class honours, first division (2.i) | 60% or above | or 58% with at least 50% of weighted counting credits at 60% or above |
| Second class honours, second division (2.ii) | 50% or above | or 48% with at least 50% of weighted counting credits at 50% or above |
| Third class honours | 40% or above | — |
What do I need for a First?
The planner under the calculator works backwards from Bristol’s own algorithm. Enter the marks you have so far, leave the years you have not finished empty (or set how many credits are still to come), and it shows the lowest mark you would need in every remaining module to reach each class. It runs the same calculation as the calculator, using the year weights and the secondary rules in the table above, so a class reached through one of those routes shows the lower figure.
The answer is a single mark repeated across every remaining module. Real marks vary, and where only some credits count or a class can be reached through a share of high marks, an uneven spread can sometimes get there with a slightly lower average. “Already secured” means the algorithm gives that class even at 0 in what is left, but you still have to pass those modules.
Your faculty sets the weighting, and it is not a choice
Regulation 30.57 gives the year weightings by faculty. For a three-year bachelor’s degree, Arts, Law and Social Sciences uses 0 : 40 : 60, while Science and Engineering and Health and Life Sciences use 0 : 25 : 75 — with Psychological Science alone among the Health and Life Sciences subjects back on 0 : 40 : 60. That is a real difference and not a rounding one: a student with a weak second year and a strong final year does better under Science and Engineering’s weighting, and the same marks can produce different classes under the two. It is decided by which faculty owns your programme, so set the picker to yours rather than to whichever gives the better number. The weightings apply to years of study, not to the level of the units you took within the year (30.58).
| Faculty | Bachelors, three years | Bachelors, four years with a year in industry or study abroad | Integrated four-year masters | Integrated four-year masters with a year in industry or study abroad | Integrated five-year masters with a year in industry or study abroad |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arts, Law and Social Sciences | 0 : 40 : 60 | 0 : 30 : 10 : 60 | 0 : 10 : 40 : 50 or 0 : 20 : 30 : 50 | 0 : 15 : 10 : 75 | — |
| Science and Engineering | 0 : 25 : 75 | 0 : 15 : 10 : 75 or 0 : 25 : 0 : 75 * | 0 : 10 : 40 : 50 | 0 : 15 : 10 : 75 or 0 : 25 : 0 : 75 * | 0 : 10 : 10 : 30 : 50 or 0 : 10 : 0 : 40 : 50 * |
| Health and Life Sciences | 0 : 25 : 75 | 0 : 15 : 10 : 75 | 0 : 10 : 40 : 50 | 0 : 15 : 10 : 75 | 0 : 10 : 10 : 30 : 50 |
| … except Psychological Science | 0 : 40 : 60 | — | 0 : 10 : 40 : 50 | — | — |
* Applies to new entrants on year-in-industry programmes in Engineering and Computer Science from 2025/26 (regulation 1.13b).
Psychological Science is carved out of its own faculty, and it costs a class
The Health and Life Sciences row of 30.57 is really two rows. The faculty uses 0 : 25 : 75 — the same as Science and Engineering — but Psychological Science is listed separately at 0 : 40 : 60, the Arts, Law and Social Sciences weighting. That is not a rounding difference. A student with a weaker second year and a strong final year does markedly better on 0 : 25 : 75, so picking the faculty row when you are on Psychological Science, or the other way round, can move you a whole class on the same transcript. Choose the row that names your subject in the calculator above, not the one that names your faculty.
Four-year and five-year programmes have their own rows
A year in industry or study abroad is weighted at Bristol rather than ignored, which is not true everywhere. An Arts, Law and Social Sciences student on a four-year degree with a placement is classified on 0 : 30 : 10 : 60 — the placement year carries 10% — and in Science and Engineering the same shape is 0 : 15 : 10 : 75. Integrated masters degrees are weighted across four or five years, as the table shows. New entrants from 2025/26 on year-in-industry programmes in Engineering and Computer Science follow the starred alternatives, where the placement year carries no weight and the penultimate year carries more. This calculator covers the three-year bachelor’s degree; for the longer programmes the arithmetic here is right but you would need the extra year blocks, so use the published weighting against your own year marks.
Rounded before the boundary is checked
Regulation 30.60 says the final programme mark is a weighted average of the year marks, rounded to the nearest integer, and that this must be done before testing whether the mark falls within a classification boundary range. So 69.5 rounds to 70 and a First is awarded outright. Bristol ends up behaving like Leeds at the boundary even though Leeds writes its rule as a lift and Bristol writes its as rounding.
The secondary rule, and it is wider than most
If your rounded mark lands on 68–69, 58–59 or 48–49, the higher class is awarded where 50% or more of your individual unit marks — weighted by credit point value and by year of study — are at that higher class or above (30.63). Two things to notice. The test covers every counting unit across both years, not just the final year the way UCL’s rule does, and because it is year-weighted your final-year units pull harder than your second-year ones. And the 50% is absolute: the regulation says in terms that the outcome of that calculation is not rounded, so 49.9% of your weighted credits is a miss. Integrated masters programmes get the 68–69 and 58–59 borderlines only.
What counts, and what is scaled up
First-year marks do not contribute (30.55), and units that are pass/fail only are disregarded. Every other unit in the counting years goes in, weighted by its credit point value — a 20 credit point unit is one sixth of a 120 credit point year (30.59). Where a unit is excluded from classification, the weighting of the remaining units in that year is scaled up to make the year mark, so excluding a 20 credit point unit leaves the other 100 credit points carrying the whole year rather than the year being marked out of 100.
Integrated masters, resits and the professional programmes
An integrated masters uses the same First, 2.i and 2.ii bands but has no Third class: 49 and below is a fail. In the final year, reassessment is only available where the failed unit is must-pass, where a misconduct penalty requires it, or on accredited programmes in the four named engineering and computer science schools (30.40) — otherwise credit may be awarded for a failed unit instead, under 30.42, where the year has been passed overall and any must-pass unit cleared. The non-modular professional programmes in Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Science are outside this scheme entirely (30.54).
What this calculator does not do
It applies the published algorithm to the marks you enter. It cannot know your programme’s approved variances, any extenuating circumstances, capped resit marks, or how a Board of Examiners will use its discretion. Where a rule is a judgement rather than a formula, the page says so rather than guessing.
Sources
Every figure on this page is read from Bristol’s own regulations:
- University of Bristol — Regulations 30b: Academic outcomes in undergraduate modular programmes (final year), 2026/27 — read in full: 30.55 what contributes and the disregard of pass/fail-only units; 30.56 units counting towards the weighted average; 30.57 the year weightings by faculty and programme type; 30.58 that the weightings attach to years of study rather than unit levels; 30.59 credit-point weighting within a year; 30.60 the weighted average of year marks, rounded to the nearest integer before the boundary test, and the scaling up of a year when a unit is excluded; 30.61 the bands for bachelors and integrated masters; 31.62 the borderline ranges; 30.63 the secondary rule and its absolute 50% threshold; and 30.40–30.47 on reassessment and the award of credit for failed units.
- Bristol — A guide to degree classification — Bristol’s own summary of the same rules, used as a cross-check on the rounding and the secondary rule rather than as the source for any figure.
Regulations change between intakes. Your own cohort’s handbook is always authoritative.