Such students may offer a maximum of 30 points in fulfillment of no more than two Residence Units, provided that the candidate does not offer those courses toward another degree. Those registered as post-graduate special students in the School of General Studies may be eligible to earn, subject to departmental approval, up to one Residence Unit as advanced standing toward the M.A. for the satisfactory completion of at least 15 points of graduate level courses. An undergraduate degree candidate at Columbia University or Barnard College must receive permission from the appropriate department to register for graduate courses in excess of his or her undergraduate degree requirements. After admission to the Graduate School the student may offer those graduate courses taken in excess of undergraduate degree requirements in partial fulfillment of the course requirements for the M.A. or the M.Phil. No courses used to fulfill a requirement for the baccalaureate may be transferred to count toward graduate degree requirements.
Departments reserve the right to establish degree requirements for all students in their programs.
Students awarded advanced standing are not necessarily exempt, therefore, from requirements demanded of M.A. candidates.