ECTS
The credit system in use in Trinity College Dublin is the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS). This applies to all undergraduate and taught postgraduate courses.
ECTS credits represent the student workload required to achieve the desired outcomes of modules and programmes where 60 credits is the norm for full-time study over one academic year (40 weeks). ECTS credits are assigned to course components/modules incorporating their associated assessment exercises and examinations, and also to other forms of structured student input, such as major projects, dissertations, practice placements, etc. where these do not form part of the assessment for a taught component which is itself assigned ECTS credits.
Credits are obtained by individual students upon successful completion of the academic year or course. However, one-year and part-year visiting students are awarded credit for all individual modules successfully completed.