Admission:
Graduate Admission Standards
| Effective Date: |
06.22.1977 |
Revision Date: |
01.18.1978 |
| Chapter Name: |
Admission
and Financial Aid |
Policy Number: |
7.1.2 |
| Policy Name: |
Admission:
Graduate Admission Standards |
| A
PDF version of this policy is available
via this link. |
MASTER'S DEGREE ADMISSION
- A minimum overall undergraduate
grade point average of 2.5 or 2.75
in the last half of the undergraduate
program is required. This would be
initiated in two steps. Beginning
with the fall of 1977, a 2.25 minimum
undergraduate GPA would be established,
with an option of 2.5 in the last
half of the undergraduate program.
This would increase to 2.5 and 2.75
respectively in the fall of 1980.
- Any department may, at its option,
establish higher GPA standards or
other additional requirements for
admission that go beyond the minimum.
- Between 1977 and 1980, students
between 2.00 - 2.25 may be admitted
to a degree program only after completing
minimum of 10 graduate hours at EMU.
After 1980, students between 2.0 -
2.5 may be admitted to degree programs
in the same manner. At least six hours
in this 10-hour requirement must be
taken in the department in which admission
is sought. Selected courses are to
be established by the department or
approved by the graduate adviser.
A student must achieve a grade point
average of 6.0 (B+) in the 10 hours
taken and in the two or more courses
required within the specific discipline.
Departments may wish to exclude this
option as an admission criteria, or
may wish to establish higher standards
than those proposed.
- Should a department determine that
admission criteria other than GPA
are more appropriate, and wish to
establish an admission policy that
goes below 2.25 - 2.5, proposals to
request this may be submitted to the
Graduate Council. It should be emphasized,
however, that proposals suggesting
alternate admission criteria should
be at least as rigorous as those established
as minimal for program degree admission.
The Graduate Council will approve requests only
when it can be deter- mined that the proposed modification
provides an alternative, but not lower standards,
than that established. Graduate grading practices
will be reviewed along with the proposal, and departments
will be required to demonstrate that grading practices
in existence will not assure automatic success for
students admitted through the alternative proposed.
SPECIALIST DEGREE ADMISSION
A minimum grade point average of 6.0 (8+) in the
master's degree program is required. Departments
preferring to establish some criteria other than
graduate GPA, or sane combination of criteria that
are perceived as more appropriate, may submit a
request to the Graduate Council. The same criteria
as stated in 4. above will be applied by the Council.
NON-DEGREE ADMISSION
Any student with an undergraduate GPA of 2.0 may
be admitted as a non-degree student. Non-degree
students may not be admitted to a degree program
unless one of the criteria listed above is met.
This admission category would be limited to 18 hours
if the student does not meet admission criteria
established for degree admission.
| Authority
for Creation or Revision: |
|
Minutes of the Board of Regents, June 22,
1977; para. .1817M.
Minutes of
the Board of Regents, January 18, 1978; para. .1881M.
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