It also has a higher than average proportion of students graduating with second class degrees.

He received a first class degree in modern history in 1879.

There he studied classics, graduating with a second class degree.

Silverstone left Cambridge in 2001 with a first class degree.

He then changed to economics and was awarded an upper first class degree in 1929.

After obtaining a first class degree he became a fellow of his college in 1854.

Our first class degrees are supposed to be some of the hardest to achieve in the world.

Raise the standard somewhat so that only the best and brightest get first class degrees.

That's about 7.5% of the total population at that age group getting first class degrees.

In 1950 he left Oxford, having graduated with a first class degree.