Guide for
Graduate Contacts
Probation Clarification
The complete probation policy, in effect as of fall 2004, is posted at www.grad.uiuc.edu/policies/probation.htm. Important points about the policy include:
- Of all the factors that may determine satisfactory academic progress, the Graduate College Probation Policy only monitors overall graduate grade point average.
- Most factors that determine satisfactory academic progress are monitored by the student's degree program; students may also be placed on probation or dismissed from the Graduate College, upon recommendation from the program, for failure to meet these requirements.
- The probation policy does not have a warning phase; students are placed on probation at the end of any semester in which the overall graduate grade-point average does not meet the program’s minimum; the minimum GPA for each graduate program can be found at www.grad.uiuc.edu/policies/min_gpa.htm.
- A student admitted to the Graduate College on limited status due to low undergraduate GPA must meet the degree program's minimum overall graduate GPA at the end of the first semester of registration, or be dismissed from the Graduate College.
- A student placed on probation has one semester in which to raise his/her overall graduate grade-point average to the program's minimum. Failure to do so will result in dismissal from the Graduate College.
- All petitions to appeal dismissal must contain strong program support and strong justification based on other factors pertinent to the program's determination of satisfactory academic progress.
