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egistration changes and any required adjustments online on ISIS. Retroactive drop/add will not be
permitted.
Unsatisfactory Scholarship
Any graduate student may be denied further registration if progress toward completing the
program becomes unsatisfactory to the academic unit, college, or Dean of the Graduate School.
Unsatisfactory scholarship is defined as failure to maintain a B average (3.00) in all work
attempted. Graduate students need an overall GPA of 3.00 truncated and a 3.00 truncated GPA in
their major (and in the minor, if a minor is declared) at graduation. Students with less than a 3.00
GPA may not hold an assistantship or fellowship.
REQUIREMENTS FOR ADVANCED DEGREES
General Requirements
The following are Graduate School regulations. Colleges and academic units may have additional
regulations.
Time Limit: All work counted toward the Master’s degree or Specialist degree must be completed
during the seven years immediately preceding the term in which the degree is awarded.
For the Engineer degree, the final 30 semester credits must be completed within five calendar years
of the Master’s degree award.
For both the Ph.D. and the Ed.D., all work must be completed within five calendar years after the
qualifying examination, or the examination must be repeated.
Candidacy: Only doctoral students (Ph.D. and Ed.D.) are formally admitted to candidacy. Such
admission requires the approval of the student’s supervisory committee, the department chair, the
college dean, and the Dean of the Graduate School. The approval must be based on:
• The academic record of the student
• The supervisory committee’s opinion on overall fitness for candidacy
• An approved dissertation topic
• A qualifying examination
Credits earned at UF: Unless otherwise specified, for any Master’s degree, the student must earn
a minimum of 30 semester credits as a graduate student at the University of Florida, of which no
more than 9 semester credits of graduate courses earned with a grade of A, A-, B+, or B may be
transferred from an institution approved for this purpose by the Dean of the Graduate School. (See
the Graduate Catalog for the requirements for a specific Master’s degree.)
For the Engineer degree, a total registration in an approved program of at least 30 semester credits
beyond the Master’s degree is required. This minimum requirement must be earned through the
University of Florida.
Beyond the first 30 credits counted toward a doctoral program, students must complete 30 credits
in residence at the University of Florida campus or at approved branch stations of the University
of Florida Agricultural Experiment Station or the Graduate Engineering and Research Center.
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