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The master’s-level nondegree and postgraduate classifications are provided by the Robinson College of Business in recognition of the fact that education is a life-long process and that people may wish to enroll in one or more graduate courses at various times for personal or professional reasons without completing an entire degree or certificate program.
7130.10 Definition of Nondegree Status
Nondegree students are those who have followed the same admissions procedures and met the same admissions deadlines and criteria as applicants to the Master of Business Administration program, but they do not wish to pursue a graduate degree or certificate. These students are admitted to enroll in graduate courses of their choice in the Robinson College of Business. They may enroll for credit or for audit, according to the same criteria as any other student.
All master’s-level nondegree students will complete the Business Communication Skills Requirement explained in this chapter. The regulations, policies, and procedures given in this chapter also apply to nondegree students.
7130.20 Definition of Postgraduate Status
Postgraduate students are those who have received a graduate degree from the Robinson College of Business and wish to reenter to take additional graduate courses in this college, but they do not wish to pursue another graduate degree. They may also enroll for credit or for audit.
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7130.30 Responsibilities/Continued Enrollment
Nondegree and postgraduate students are responsible for meeting all academic regulations of the college and the university, including the requirements for maintaining good academic standing. It is therefore important that those students be familiar with the provisions of the graduate catalog in effect at the time of their enrollment in either status. Students may continue to enroll in nondegree or postgraduate status indefinitely, as long as at least a 3.00 cumulative GPA is maintained. No more than nine semester hours of coursework taken in nondegree or postgraduate status, however, may be subsequently applied toward a graduate degree or certificate of this college. (See below.)
Nondegree and postgraduate students must follow proper registration procedures each semester they wish to enroll; these classifications do not waive the responsibility to register correctly and on a timely basis.
Some academic units do not permit nondegree and/or postgraduate students to enroll in their courses due to the demand for the courses by degree-seeking students.
All prerequisites to any course taken must be met. These classifications are not intended as a means to circumvent proper course sequencing.
Neither nondegree status nor postgraduate status in the Robinson College of Business is provided for students who intend to qualify for any degree, certification, or other status in another college of Georgia State University. Students with this goal must, at the first opportunity, contact the appropriate graduate admissions office for procedures and criteria for establishing graduate status in that college.
7130.40 Changing from Nondegree or Postgraduate Status to Degree/Certificate Status
Students who wish to change to degree/certificate status must file an application for the program desired and all supporting documents by the appropriate deadline for the semester for which admission is sought. Further information on application procedures for admission to degree or certificate programs in the Robinson College of Business may be obtained from GSAS.
Any credit earned while in nondegree or postgraduate status must be no more than seven years old at the time the student graduates if it is to be counted for credit toward the program to which the student is changing.
Grades from all attempts at all courses that are later counted toward degree or certificate credit will become part of the student’s GPA for that program. This means that the nondegree and postgraduate statuses are not intended as a means to make attempts at courses that are anticipated to be difficult with the intention of having only the final attempt count in the GPA for the degree/certificate program. |
