MASTER OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION - MPA
Academic Standards
The faculty in the School of Public Affairs has approved the following academic standards for the MPA program:
- Dismissal from the MPA program will be recommended by the MPA Committee if a student has received three (3) “C” and/or lower grades in course work taken after admission to the program. No more than two (2) “C” grades in core courses will be permitted to be used on the Program of Study.
- Per Division of Graduate Studies policy: “Grades of ‘D’ or ‘E’ cannot be used to meet the requirements for a graduate degree, although they are used to compute the GPAs. A student receiving a ‘D’ or ‘E’ must repeat the course in a regularly scheduled (not independent study) class if it is to be used on the program of study.”
- No student may have more than two (2) incompletes at any one time. A student is barred from taking further course work until one or more of the incompletes is removed.
- All work used toward the MPA degree must be completed within six (6) consecutive years.
