Once you have completed at least 10 credits in your master's degree program (or 30 credits of your doctoral degree program) with a minimum GPA of 3.0, you may apply to graduate. Registered students are sent a notice about applying to gradaute each December. If you are planning to complete your degree this year, please apply to graduate. An application to graduate is required in order to confer your degree. Applying to graduate is a separate process from signing up for graduation events. While participation in graduation events (Hooding and Commencement) is optional, applying to gradaute is required.
Applying to Graduate
To apply to graduate, follow these directions.
- Log into the Banner Information System
- Select the Student Menu
- Select the Graduation Menu
- Select Apply to Graduate
- When requested to Select a Term, be sure to select the most current quarter of attendance, if given more than one option
- Be sure to select the Graduation Date as the last quarter of attendance (not the ceremony term)
- From there, follow the directions on the application to select your preferred name and mailing address (for your diploma)
- Review the information on the summary page, and click “Submit Request”
Reviewing Your Degree Check
As a student, you are responsible for ensuring you are on track to graduate and have completed all course and non-credit requirements. To this end, we provide Banner degree check as a tool to track your progress toward completing your degree. A guide to degree check is located on the Banner Guides page in this wiki. In the year that you plan to graduate, it is important that you review your Banner degree check to make sure you are on track and are not missing anything. In late January/early February, the Associate Director of Graduate Programs will send out a reminder about this to all students who have applied to graduate for that calendar year. Here are the directions for reviewing your degree check.
To access degree check, please follow these directions.
- Log into Banner
- Select the Student Menu
- Select the Academic Records Menu
- Select “GR and DR Degree Status Check”
- Click the blue “admitted term” hyperlink to the right of your program of study. For example:
- Note: If the hyperlink does not populate your program, follow the prompts in the dropdown menus to find the degree check appropriate to your program. Remember to select your term of admission, not the current term.
To read degree check
Degree check lists all courses required during the Catalog year of your admission. This may mean that there are some substitutions or equivalencies that need to be noted in order to complete your record. Courses in green are complete. Courses in red are not complete. Please also pay attention to the total number of outstanding credits at the bottom of your degree check, as well as substitutions and general comments that School of Education stafff may have already entered on your degree check.