Diploma

Institution TypesSchool Education

A qualification below a bachelor's degree, often vocational or technical in focus.

Diploma is a qualification below a bachelor's degree, often vocational or technical in focus.

Related Terms
Polytechnic
An institution offering vocational and technical diploma-level education.
Vocational Education
Training focused on specific trades and practical skills for direct entry into employment.
Multiple Entry and Multiple Exit (MEME)
A flexible degree structure that allows students to leave a program at defined milestones with a recognised qualification and re-enter later to continue.
Affiliation
An arrangement in which a college operates under the academic authority of a parent university, which sets the curriculum, conducts examinations and awards degrees.
Autonomous College
An affiliated college granted the freedom to design its own curriculum and conduct its own examinations while remaining linked to a university.