Many departments, however, require a minimum of 3.0 or higher, and if this is the case, their minimum becomes the minimum enforced by the Graduate College. A student who completes a minimum of three units of graded course work with a GPA below the enforced minimum will receive a warning letter. If after completion of three additional units of graded course work a student s cumulative GPA has not been raised to the minimum or if it falls below thereafter, the student will be placed on limited status. Advisers and departments take factors other than satisfactory grades into consideration in determining qualifications for advanced degrees. An adequate GPA does not in itself ensure continuation in an advanced degree program.
Many departments keep records of deferred grades, as well as written evaluations by instructors.
These factors, along with other skills and aptitudes, are considered by departments in determining satisfactory progress and in decisions to permit students to continue in master s and doctoral degree programs. Graduate credit at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is measured in terms of units. For approved transfer credit, one unit equals four semester hours or six quarter hours. Each course description indicates the credit available. Courses in the 400 series, with the exception of some courses such as the 400 and 401 foreign language courses, carry graduate credit and are restricted to graduate students except under special circumstances.