Pembroke College Cambridge

Assessment and Credit

Assessment

Assessments usually consist of a final dissertation, although this may vary depending on the course. You'll find assessment information in the course syllabi on the online application system. 

If you take the supervision option you will submit either a series of four assessed essays with the grade generally averaged across all four or one longer dissertation.

Academic accommodations 

If you are usually given academic accommodations because of a disability or require special arrangements to be made, you will be able to let us know about these in the medical information form that we send out before the start of the programme. 

Getting academic credit

Academic credit can usually be gained for the courses taken during the programme, although the amount of credit can vary according to the policy of your home university. In general, students receive around 3 or 4 US credits per course or supervision.

Please be aware that credit is awarded by your home institution and course equivalency and the amount of credit you receive will be decided by your home institution and not by Pembroke College.

Credit transfer is generally straightforward. The 25 hours contact time, combined with the Cambridge style of teaching, individual feedback on performance and guided independent study, generally fits with most home universities' policies.

The Pembroke Cambridge Summer Programme does not operate the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS). However, as an approximation, completion of the programme can be considered equivalent to completing a full Cambridge term and thus to 20 ECTS credits.

We'll provide you with a transcript at the end of the programme and syllabi are available when you select your courses to help in arranging credit transfer.

If you don't need or are unable to transfer credit, or have already graduated, you are still very welcome to apply to the programme.

Transcripts

We send transcripts either to you or to your home institution within a month of the end of the programme, depending where how you have applied and where you study. If your home institution has an agreement with us then the transcript will be sent to them directly and your study abroad office will distribute them. If you have applied via a study abroad provider such as Arcadia, IFSA or IES Abroad they will also receive and distribute your transcript to you.

Grade format

You'll receive a UK percentage grade for each course you take and these grades will be recorded on your transcript. 

While the UK grading system uses percentages, you should be aware that it is very uncommon for students to get over 80%. We'll provide a conversion table on the transcript.