Grading System:

 

Excerpted from School of Graduate Studies catalog:

 

The School of Graduate Studies uses a system of letter grades that have been assigned numerical “quality points.”

 

Letter Grade                Quality Point Equivalent           Performance

 

A+                                          4.0                                Superior Performance

A                                            4.0                              

 

A-                                                   3.7                               Expected Performance

B+                                                                               3.3

B                                                                                 3.0

  

B-                                           2.7                               Passing but below Graduate         

*C+                                        2.3                               Standard

*C                                          2.0

 

                        C-                                           1.7                               Unacceptable

D+                                          1.3

D                                            1.0

F                                             0.0

 

P                                             None                           Pass in pass/fail

S                                             None                           Pass in blind P/F

Z                                              None                           Audit

 

Please see the current School of Graduate Studies catalog for codes used to indicate unusual situations.

 

* Please see the subsections Departmental Academic Probation, and Grades in Clinical Practica Courses, in the Academic Standards Committee section of this handbook, and the Practicum Grading subsection in the Clinical Practica section of this handbook for further information on clinical course grading.

 

**If a matriculated graduate student receives a grade below C+ in any CMD academic course which is part of his/her planned program of graduate studies, the course must be repeated the next time it is offered. This regulation holds regardless of overall grade point average. If the grade earned in the second attempt is again below C+ procedures will be initiated for student removal from the program regardless of overall grade point average.