Once students have been admitted with graduate degree status (G) or with graduate non-degree status (GN), they are expected to maintain a 3.0 cumulative grade-point average. Students whose cumulative grade-point averages fall below 3.0 are placed on academic probation. A graduate student will be allowed to repeat a maximum of two courses in which the student has been assigned a grade of C or F. A given course may be repeated once.

   Graduate students placed on academic probation are required to restore their overall grade-point average to 3.0 within 9 additional gross semester hours of graduate work, including repeated and dropped courses.*  Failure to do so will result in dismissal from graduate study.

   Grade-point averages calculated for removal of probationary status are based on all graduate courses taken at Winthrop University, not on selected courses. All course work used to restore the grade-point average to 3.0 must be completed at Winthrop. Credit earned at any other institution while the student is on academic probation or is ineligible to enroll at Winthrop cannot be applied to any degree at Winthrop University.

*Because of the lock-step structure of the Executive MBA program, graduate students in this program must restore their overall grade-point average to 3.0 within two additional semesters of graduate work. An EMBA student must achieve a minimum of 2.5 grade-point average for the 12 hours of the first semester (BADM 671, EMBA Module 1) in order to continue in the program. Students will be allowed to enroll in the third semester of the program (BADM 673, EMBA Module 3) only with completion of BADM 671, EMBA Module 1, and BADM 672, EMBA Module 2, with a grade-point average of at least 2.75.