Graduating with Academic Honors

Honors are awarded at the time of graduation and include your final semester grades. At commencement, only a recognition of "honors" is indicated; levels of honors are not addressed.

Graduation with academic honors applies to undergraduate students only.  For the purpose of recognition at the commencement ceremonies and the printed program, the following is applied.

Recognition of academic honors at May commencement ceremonies is based on coursework completed before the semester of the ceremonies, the fall semester.  Grades recorded through the fall 2011 semester will be calculated for the overall GPA and the institutional GPA.  The lower of these two GPA's will be used to determine academic honor recognition in the commencement printed program and the name cards.

This applies to students eligible to graduate in the Fall 2011, Spring 2012 and Summer 2012 semesters.

Academic Honors are:

Cum laude   3.50 - 3.69
Magna cum laude   3.70 - 3.89
Summa cum laude   3.90 - 4.00

 

 

 

 

Students participating in the commencement ceremonies, who qualify for academic honors recognition, will be contacted by the Commencement Office in April regarding when and where to pick up their honor cord. If you are unable to pick up your cord, you will receive a gold honor cord as you check in on the day of commencement, not before and not after.  Students do not pay for these cords.