This data set focuses specifically on the accessibility of honours education for first generation students (i.e., students who are the first in their family to attend higher education) while taking a social psychological approach. We have collected both quantitative and qualitative data across two academic years (2020-2021 & 2021-2022) with first- and continuing generation honours students about their experiences in honours as well as with first- and continuing generation regular students about their (not) to study in honours.

This data set consists of 4 different parts: Part 1 includes survey data of students about their choice (not) to participate in an honours programme Part 2 includes survey data of students at the start of their honours programme Part 3 includes survey data of students during their honours programme Part 4 includes qualitative interview data with first generation honours students. For privacy reasons only the meta data of this part is included.