Returning Former Students

The University requirements for graduation must be satisfied prior to the awarding of an undergraduate degree. Students meet the University requirements for graduation, including general education requirements, as follows:

1. New students are held to the University requirements that are published in the catalog with the effective date that corresponds to their Admission term.

2. Former students who are readmitted to WSU are held to the University requirements that are published in the catalog at the time they are readmitted and reflect their most current admission term. However, students who were enrolled at WSU prior to Fall 2012, and who completed the 2009 General Education Requirements (GERs), are considered to have satisfied the current University Common Requirements (UCORE).

3. Students with incomplete general education requirements (such as GERs or GURs), or who completed general education requirements prior to 2009, are encouraged to work with their academic advisors to determine what coursework is needed to complete the UCORE requirements.

4. Students who apply to graduate who are not currently enrolled will be held to current University requirements.

Graduation requirements for a student’s degree are set at the time the student is admitted to the major and include college requirements. Graduation requirements for additional majors, minors, or other academic awards are set at the time of admission to those additional academic plans. The following exceptions apply:

1. Departments may require students to meet newer major or minor requirements, provided the newer requirements neither oblige a student to enroll in more than a normal complement of credit hours in any semester nor prolong the time necessary to complete degree requirements.

2. Current students whose admission to the major or minor is more than eight years old may be required by the department to meet current degree requirements. This may in some cases prolong the time necessary to complete the degree.

3. Former students who must reapply and be readmitted to WSU will need to contact the department where they wish to be admitted as a major since their prior status is not maintained. These students will be eligible to be admitted to the major when they meet the current requirements set by the department.

4. Students who apply to graduate and who have not attended WSU for six or more years will need approval from their major department to complete the degree in the major to which they were previously admitted. In some cases, these students may be held to more current requirements which may prolong the time necessary to complete the degree. Students may choose to seek a different major without being readmitted to the university in order to earn a degree.

5. Students who maintain continuous enrollment shall have eight years to complete any degree, major, minor, or other academic award that has been discontinued, following the last inclusion in the WSU Catalog.

6. Deans, department heads, and program chairs have the authority to waive or provide substitute course work for college, major, or minor requirements. They may also allow a student to graduate using the requirements from a prior catalog year, provided that the student was enrolled during that time, and that the major or minor is currently offered.