Academic Progress Standards for Graduate Students Receiving Financial Aid

You will maintain satisfactory academic progress for financial aid eligibility if you receive grades of A-C in 75 percent of the total graduate semester hours for which you are enrolled at UW-Stevens Point.

Your academic progress is determined each year in June. If you are not making satisfactory academic progress, you will be ineligible to receive financial aid until such time as you earn a sufficient number of credits to be making satisfactory academic progress. Additional conditions apply:

1. “Total graduate semester hours for which enrolled” is defined as all the graduate credits for which you receive a grade of A, B, C, D, F, I, GP, P, W, or WF. Plus and minus grades are included.

2. These standards are applied after you have accumulated 9 or more “semester hours enrolled.”

3. Incomplete grades in thesis courses are excluded.

4. Transfer credits are excluded.

5. According to federal regulations, you are no longer eligible for financial aid after you attempt more than 48 graduate credits for a master’s degree.

6. If you re-enter after being out of school one or more semesters, you must be making satisfactory academic progress at the time you re-enter in order to qualify for financial aid.

7. If you are ineligible for financial aid due to unsatisfactory academic progress, you may appeal to the dean of your college for special consideration if you feel your lack of progress is due to extenuating circumstances.