Academic Policies

Undergraduate students who expect to participate in the Five-Year Masters Program must complete all requirements for the baccalaureate degree as well as fulfill prerequisites for the graduate program they intend to enter. Students must also complete all of the requirements for the undergraduate major. Students admitted to the Physician Assistant Studies, Occupational Therapy, and Counseling Psychology programs do not need to complete an undergraduate tutorial; students entering these programs must complete an intensive graduate research project that fulfills the tutorial requirement. Depending on a student’s curricular and co-curricular program (e.g., athletics, work study), she may need to take courses in all available Maymester terms and at least one summer term in order to complete the Five-Year Masters Program in five years. A student may not begin taking graduate-level courses for the Five-Year Masters Program until she has been fully admitted into a graduate program and completed her junior year of undergraduate study, except students entering the MAT program and the MSCP program, who may begin taking graduate-level coursework during the junior year with the approval of the program director.

Upon completion of the requirements for the undergraduate degree, students must submit an application for graduation and will receive their bachelor’s degree immediately upon completion of the requirements for the degree. Students then complete the remaining requirements for the master’s degree, after which they will be awarded the graduate degree. Students in the Physician Assistant Studies program will receive both the undergraduate and graduate degrees simultaneously because the requirements for the undergraduate degree cannot be fulfilled until the graduate program has been completed.