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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, especially for undergraduate degrees.

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, similar to the [[Dewey Decimal System]]. For example, F represents the Physical Sciences, F300 Physics, F330 Environmental Physics and F331 Atmospheric Physics.

==Joint honours courses==

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==Codes==

Letters are assigned to the subject groups as follows. Note that the in the proposed version 3 of JACS, Computer Sciences are split from Mathematics and assigned code letter I.<ref>[[Higher Education Statistics Agency]] [http://www.hesa.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1427&Itemid=277 Development of the Joint Academic Coding System (JACS) Version 3]</ref>.

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