Scottish Baccalaureates

What are Scottish Baccalaureates?

Scottish Baccalaureates consist of a coherent group of Higher and Advanced Higher qualifications at SCQF level 7.

Unique to Scottish Baccalaureates is the Interdisciplinary Project that helps you to develop and show evidence of initiative, responsibility, and independent working - skills of real value in the world of higher education and work.

Scottish Baccalaureate options for the four frameworks (15 KB).

Content may reference SQA but remains valid

On 1 February 2026, Qualifications Scotland replaced SQA and became Scotland’s new national awarding body. The documents on this page remain current and you can continue to use them. We’ll update them in the style of Qualifications Scotland when they’re next due for review.