Bachelor of Philosophy
The University of Western Australia also offers the Bachelor of Philosophy (B.Phil.) course for high-achieving new students. This is a research intensive degree which takes four years instead of the usual three for the other bachelor's degrees. Students studying the course choose disciplines from any of the four bachelor's degrees. Places are very limited with on average only about 30 places offered to students each year. Thus there is a lot of competition for places and the cut-off admission rank is very high.
Bachelor's degree
The Magister degree, a graduate degree, was awarded after five years of study. In 1899, a second graduate degree, the Diplom, was introduced when the "Technische Hochschulen" (TH) received university status. With the introduction of the Universities of Applied Sciences, a shortened version of the latter, referred to as "Diplom (FH)" and designed to take three to four years, was phased in between 1969 and 1972.