SAP standards for master’s degree or professional students

Qualitative standard: As a graduate student pursuing an M.A. or M.S. degree, you must maintain a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.8 (unless your college requires a higher GPA) for the entire enrollment in a graduate certificate or master’s degree program. You are required to maintain at least a 2.0 GPA if you are a professional student in veterinary medicine, dentistry, or pharmacy programs.

Quantitative standard: You are eligible to receive financial aid for a maximum timeframe of 150 percent of the published degree credits required to complete your program. For example, if your graduate or certificate program requires 30 credits, you are eligible for aid up to 45 attempted credits. Each semester your cumulative credit completion ratio is determined to ensure that you have completed at least 67 percent of all credits you attempted. The total credits you have attempted to date (including any course in which you were enrolled past the drop/add period) will be compared to the total credits you actually earned.