Double degrees in the U.K.?

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No amount of googling has seemed to answer my question, which makes me think it is a no! I am Australian and when I went to uni you could do a double degree - combining two degrees and it would usually take a year longer (you’d get credits for subjects that would be considered part of both degrees). Is this something available in the U.K.? PPE seems to be automatically one of them, but I think DD would like to do a combined politics/psychology degree.

Is this a thing in the U.K.? It may not be in Australia anymore either!

Yes, been commonplace for at least 20 years now. We do indeed have semesters and terms and they aren't the same thing!

My niece did psychology at Southampton and got to do a term in New Zealand. She liked it but complained that the way their terms are structured she had to flay over pretty well as soon as her summer term had finished to start the new NZ term so she missed having her long UK summer holiday!

Some still have 3 terms, including Kent as recommended by another poster for Psychology with a year abroad. Although Kent do now calls their terms Autumn, Spring and Summer rather than Michaelmas, Lent and Trinity as they used to do. I quite miss the old names.

My university had 2 semesters across a year (Sept-Dec, Jan-summer) back in the 90s-I thought lots of others did as well. There will still three terms, but semesters were different.

Depending on the university they would choose different modules each semester. I don't think doing a semester in another country would work though unless it is part of the course for eg a language degree.

As long as the necessary learning outcomes and accreditation requirements are met, it does. Sometimes it means a bit of extra work for the student.