Successfully Complete at Least 67% of Attempted Credits
Attempted credits are those credits that a student has registered for and attended at least one session of a course. A student is considered to have completed an attempted credit when they are issued a letter grade (A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, C-, D+, D, D-) or earned a Pass.
Incomplete and In-Progress (IP) grades are not included in the completion rate calculation until a final grade is assigned. The non-standard grades (W, X, and M) are not considered completed credits.
Students must successfully complete 67% of their attempted credits, not 67% of their attempted courses. Consider the following example of an undergraduate student. A student who enrolls in the following courses is attempting 13 credits.
- Statistics 244 (5 credits)
- Anthropology 415 (4 credits)
- Anthropology 321 (4 credits)
In the above example, this student is taking three courses and must pass 67% of their attempted
credits. At the end of the term, this student receives the following grades:
- Statistics 244 = W
- Anthropology 415 = A
- Anthropology 321 = B
The student completed the term with a GPA of 3.5, which is above the required 2.0 GPA. However, this student only passed two, four-credit classes. That means that they completed 8/13 attempted credits (remember the statistics course was 5 credits). That means the student didn’t pass 67% of their attempted credits. Students who do not attend at least one session of a course are not considered to have attempted a credit.
Graduate-level students' completion rate calculation may be affected by enrolling in undergraduate courses. Undergraduate coursework cannot comprise more than 1/3 of the total undergraduate and graduate credits a graduate student attempts from the start of their program.