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The '''Joint Academic Classification of Subjects''' (JACS) system is used by the [[Higher Education Statistics Agency]] (HESA) and the [[Universities and Colleges Admissions Service]] (UCAS) in the [[United Kingdom]] to classify academic subjects.

A JACS code for a single subject consists of a letter and three numbers. The letter represents the broad subject classification and subsequent numbers represent further details. For example, F represents the Physical Sciences, F300 Physics, F330 Environmental Physics and F331 Atmospheric Physics.

Letters are assigned to the subject groups as follows:

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====References====

==See also==

*[[List of fields of doctoral studies]]

====References====

*[http://www.city.ac.uk/registry/jacs_codes.html City University on JACS Codes]

====External links====

*[http://www.hesa.ac.uk/jacs/completeclassification.htm Complete JACS Classification from HESA]

==See also==

[[List of fields of doctoral studies]]

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