School of Business - Clarkson University

APPENDIX B: GENERAL ACADEMIC AND DEGREE INFORMATION
You will find a complete on-line listing of Clarkson’s Academic
Regulations at www.clarkson.edu/studentaffairs/regulations/iii.html.
Additional Academic information is also published in the
Clarkson Catalog at:
www.clarkson.edu/catalog/10-11/academic_requirements.html.
Advance Placement/Transfer Credit
Advanced Placement or transfer credit can be granted to
you and Clarkson requires a score of 4 or higher. For further
information and to get the credit applied to your transcript you
need to contact a representative in the Student Administrative
Services Center (SAS). AP credit must be approved just prior
to your first semester, otherwise a Dean’s exception must be
granted in order to transfer in AP credits.
Classification of Students
• A student must complete at least 24 credit hours for
Sophomore status.
• A student must complete at least 54 credit hours for Junior
status.
• A student must complete at least 84 credit hours for Senior
status.
Double Majors/Dual Degrees/Second Degrees
1. A single major Clarkson bachelor’s degree requires 121
credits of coursework. A double major is awarded when the
student satisfies all curricular requirements for two
bachelor’s degree programs but does not qualify for a
second degree or dual degree. A double major degree
requires completion of all requirements for both programs
prior to graduation.
2. A dual degree (that is, the simultaneous awarding of two
Clarkson bachelor’s degrees) is noted on a student’s
transcript when the student:
a. satisfies all degree requirements for at least two different
Clarkson bachelor’s degree programs,
b. has a minimum of 150 credit hours, including at least 30
credit hours unique to each program, and
c. the relevant academic deans, in consultation with the
department heads or directors of the degree programs,
judge the two degree programs, establish competencies in
two essentially different areas.
3. A second bachelor’s degree (that is, the non-simultaneous
awarding of two Clarkson bachelor’s degrees) is awarded
when the student:
a. applies for readmission as a second degree candidate
by sending a letter requesting readmission to the Student
Administrative Service Center,
b. has a minimum of 150 credit hours, including at least 30
credit hours unique to each program,
c. has a minimum of 12 credit hours in residence after
the semester in which all requirements of the first degree
program were satisfied, with at least 6 credit hours of this
work consisting of upper-division courses in the second
degree program, and
d. receives the two degrees at two different commencements,
with the portion of the work completed in residence after the
awarding of the first degree.
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Within 6 Hours: Students within 6 credit hours of meeting all
graduation requirements may participate in commencement,
and may finish course work off campus. However, the offcampus
permission forms must be completed and approved at
the School of Business Dean’s Office.
Transfer credit: Transfer credit from another college or
university is approved through your advisor, the department
under which the course is taught and the SAS Office. Before
taking a course at another university, the Off-campus Course
Work Permission form must be filled out (see appendix). See
your advisor for any questions about transfer credit.
GRADING SYSTEM
Grades are reported in accordance with the following system:
A, B+, B, C+, C, D+, D, F (4, 3.5, 3, 2.5, 2, 1.5, 1, 0 quality points).
Therefore, a student who passes a 3-hour course with an A will
earn 3 x 4 or 12 quality points; a B, 3 x 3 or 9 quality points, etc.
The quality-point average is determined by dividing the total
number of earned quality points by the total number of credit
hours taken at Clarkson on a traditional basis (A, B+, B, ... ).
Selected courses may be taken on the Pass/No Credit system
where P=passed, quality-point average not affected; NC (no
credit) on student’s record for D+, D, or F grade in courses taken
as Pass/No Credit; P=passed (certain designated graduate
courses), quality-point average not affected.
MIDTERM GRADES
Midterm Grade Rosters will be created on-line for all courses.
Midterm grades are intended to inform students of their
academic progress; they do not become part of a permanent
student record. In courses in which student work has been
evaluated before midterm, one of the following two grades will
be awarded: S – Satisfactory U – Unsatisfactory. A midterm
grade of unsatisfactory (“U”) should be recognized as indicating
undergraduate performance below the level of a “C” grade. For
those courses in which no student work has been evaluated
before midterm, the report will show an “N” for each student.
REPEATING A COURSE
Students can only repeat a course for which they have received
a grade of D+ or lower. Once the course is repeated, the
higher of the two grades will prevail and the lower grade will
be omitted. The transcript is a historical document and so any
coursework that has been completed will remain recorded. A
repeated course will show up with a notation that is has been
repeated and it will be omitted from the GPA calculation.
ACADEMIC STANDING
1. Academic Warning. A full-time undergraduate student in
Good Standing whose current semester Quality-Point
Average (QPA) falls below 2.000 shall be placed on Academic
Warning. To be removed from Academic Warning, back to
Good Standing, a student needs to complete at least 12 credit
hours with a current semester QPA of at least 2.000.