Further studies will provide significant additional status to your undergraduate degree. It is one of the primary entry points to a higher degree, including a PhD. It also marks you out as a high achieving student, conferring significant advantages for entry to employment. All high achieving students should consider pursuing their undergraduate degrees to include Honours.

Honours involves an extra year of full-time study. The distinctive feature of Fenner Honours is its research intensive nature. Students undertake an independent, in-depth research project on a topic of their own choosing, with suitable supervisory guidance. This leads to a 15,000 words thesis, which they will defend at a final presentation.

In addition, coursework is undertaken to provide skills in methodology, writing and thesis development, presentation and communication. Beyond this, no further classwork is expected. 

Most Honours graduates will tell you it is far and away the most satisfying and fulfilling year of their undergraduate degree.You will be undertaking original research, sharing intense study with a small group of like-minded people, mixing with other researchers as equals and obtaining unique insights into what life in research can be like.

An Honours degree will give you a strong competitive edge in employment, and a good Honours grade allows you direct admission to most Masters or PhD programs anywhere in the world.

The Fenner School has both Arts and Sciences Honours Programs in Forest Sciences, Geography, Human Ecology, Resource & Environmental Management, and Sustainability. Each is offered as an additional year of full-time study. An ANU Honours candidate will usually pursue Honours in the same Program in which they completed their undergraduate degree. However, students also enter Honours from other degrees, as well as from other universities, or after gaining professional experience.