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The Awarding Bodies - Dublin City University

Awarding Bodies are organisations that are authorised to make postgraduate awards, certification, or award qualifications.

Listing Awarding Bodies

Postgrad.ie lists all of the awarding bodies in Ireland, the UK and abroad. Most major postgraduate awards are made by bodies with statutory powers, but there are also many professional organisations that make their own awards in relation to postgraduate study. While courses and educational programmes in Ireland lead to qualifications from Irish awarding bodies, it sometimes be the case that courses lead to non-Irish awards, for example awards from international bodies, or national awards from other countries.

Certain Irish institutions are both providers of courses and programmes and also awarding bodies for postgraduate certification in their own right: these are the Irish universities and the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT).

An award is an academic qualification (degree, diploma or certificate) conferred in recognition of the successful completion of a higher education programme of study, either at undergraduate or postgraduate level, and issued by a designated awarding body. The National Framework of Qualifications sets out the criteria for major and non-major awards. Non-major awards include, minor awards, special purpose awards
and supplemental awards.

Major awards are the principal class of awards made at a given NFQ level and reflect a significant volume of learning, e.g. Honours Bachelor Degree (NFQ, Level 8), Master Degree (NFQ, Level 9), Doctorate Degree (NFQ Level 10).

In Ireland, following the changes in the qualifications system as a result recent legislation, the number of statutory bodies has been reduced as the new awards councils FETAC and HETAC have assumed the the awarding functions previously fulfilled by several other Irish organisations such as the National Council for Educational Awards (NCEA), National Council for Vocational Awards (NCVA), Solas, Teagasc, the National Tourism Certification Board (CERT) and Bord Iascaigh Mhara.

Postgrad.ie lists all of the awarding bodies giving postgraduate certification in Ireland and the UK below.

Dublin City University (DCU) was founded in 1974 as the National Institute for Higher Education. In 1989, DCU became achieved university status by statute.

DCU student body

The university currently has approximately 6,000 undergraduate students. DCU also has over 600 research postgraduates and 1,800 taught postgraduate students. In addition, the university has around 1,200 online distance education students studying through DCU Connected. Finally, the university has over 50,000 alumni.

Accreditations

DCU, like all Irish universities, can make awards. In addition, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accredits DCU Business School. AACSB is the world's oldest and most prestigious global accrediting body for business schools. Less than five percent of the world's business schools have AACSB accreditation.

The Association of MBAs, the body that assesses the quality of MBA programmes worldwide, accredits DCU's Executive MBA. The university’s M.Sc. in Electronic Commerce has prestigious EPAS accreditation. FIBAA accredits DCU’s BA in Global Business (German). FIBAA promotes quality and transparency in education and science.

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