Does getting Honors matter for job search ?

Different countries have different ways of structuring their degree programs. In Uk, its 3 years with honors by grade scores. In AUS, it's 3 year degrees and 4th year honors studies if you maintain a certain GPA. UniSA also has 3 year degrees and 4th year honors programs. In the US, i believe some colleges offer Honors college to get an honors degree (?)

Question is ; does getting honors from a degree done at places like Australia or UniSA matter when finding a job ? Or is just a normal 3 year degree from these places suitable ? I've checked with wes.org, they consider 3 year degrees from Australia the same as 4 year US degrees. 4th year honors from AUS = 1 year of Masters.

Will employers in the US give higher pay if you had an honors degree ?

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No. Next question please.

 

I earned honors on two of my graduate degrees and nobody even noticed.

 

It's possible that it might make a difference if applying to grad school but I don't think employers really care.

 

The US version of Latin honors would be the same as a first class/2.1/2.2 degree from UK ? I had the impression for Honors, you have to go through Honors college to do extra higher level coursework etc. Just like how in AUS, they make you go through 1 extra year of higher level work before grating you Honors.

 

The US has two different systems both refereed to as "honors", but each is unique.

First, as SteveFoerster mentioned, if you get a good GPA in any program, your degree gets a special distinction.

Second, you can apply to join your school's honors college, and take more rigorous coursework.

A UK degree without honors is only 3 years. Will the degree equivalence people call that equal to a 2-year AA or a 4-year BA?

 

Generally speaking, I believe that it is typically viewed as equivalent to a 4 year US Bachelors degree.

 

A lot of high schools have honors diploma programs. At one time in the NYS Regents system, you could graduate high school with both a regular diploma and an Honors Regents diploma. A big deal was made of that, but in all honesty it was meaningless as no employer was going to care that you had two HS diplomas. Heck, most don't even check that you have one at all, they just assume you do.

Kids and parents who knew the score opted instead to enroll in the early college program where kids could earn college credit while still in HS.

 

Honors do help when applying to federal positions. They give more weight to degreed candidates with Superior Academic Achievement.

 

Before this thread, I'd never heard of an actual track called honors. Humm learn something new every day. I graduated with excellent grades in all of my degrees, I'm still waiting for someone to ask me so I can tell them.

 

The honors track would also be a good way to get to know instructors better, as the student to teacher ratio would be lower, thereby, getting better letters of recommendation, or even possibly, increase the likelihood that one of them would directly recommend you for a job. For someone interested in a career in academia, this would be an ideal route, as honors students could probably get more real research experience.

 

The way the OP is using Honors it does not. However, one's GPA does matter which is normally the criteria for an Honors track.

As someone else already mentioned I got my very first job many many moons ago with the Federal Government through their superior academic criteria. In fact, after I was hired my boss told me they only looked at people with high GPAs.

Like anything else, it very much depends on the employer. Government and academia it means more, private industry less...sometimes much less.

 

Yes, because the general education part ends with graduation from HS for many (most? All?) Europeans. I am not positive this is the case for British and Australian students, but in Germany, for instance, you go straight into your chosen field of study, and you are done after three years (...technically. A lot of people need more time).