Statutes and Ordinances of the University of Cambridge
Statute B
pp. 13–14
MATRICULATION, RESIDENCE, DEGREES, DISCIPLINE

Chapter III

DEGREES

1. The University may admit to any of the several degrees listed in Schedule L a matriculated person who has done all that is required by the Statutes or Ordinances.1

2. Degrees shall rank in such order of precedence as may be determined by Ordinance and failing any Ordinance in such order as has been customary heretofore.

3. The University shall have power to add or remove a degree to or from the list of those specified in Schedule L and shall specify in the schedule which degrees are primary degrees.

4. Students may be admitted to a primary degree without having previously been admitted to any degree in the University. Save as otherwise provided in the Statutes no one shall be admitted to any degree other than the primary degree without having previously been admitted to a degree in the University.

5. Save as otherwise provided in the Statutes no one shall be admitted to any degree of the University unless he or she has complied with such conditions of residence as shall have been approved by Ordinance.

6. The University may prescribe by Ordinance conditions in which the status of the degree of Bachelor of Arts and of the degree of Master of Arts may be held or may be granted by the Council. The University may by Ordinance prescribe conditions under which on the recommendation of the Council persons may be granted admission to the complete degree of Master of Arts without fulfilment of the usual conditions.

7. The University may by Ordinance prescribe conditions under which

  1. (a)a graduate of the University of Oxford or the University of Dublin (Trinity College) may be admitted by incorporation to any degree which in the opinion of the Council is equivalent to a degree to which he or she has been admitted by either of those Universities;
  2. (b)a candidate for a degree who has kept a term or terms by residence at either of the said Universities may receive an allowance of not more than the same number of terms towards the terms required to be kept in this University.

8. Admission to a degree shall take place when a candidate is admitted to it in person at a Congregation of the Regent House; provided that the University may prescribe conditions under which a candidate may be admitted to a degree in absence.

9. If any person has resigned his or her membership of the University in accordance with the provisions of section 7 of Chapter I of this Statute, and if the Council has removed that person’s name from the list of members of the University, any degree or degrees of the University to which the person concerned has been admitted shall be deemed to be cancelled forthwith, and shall be reinstated only by a decision of the Council which shall not be taken until a period of five years has elapsed from the date of cancellation.

Footnotes

  1. 1. See also Statute T, 23 and 24.a