DEGREE COMPLETION REQUIREMENTS

Admission to Candidacy

 Admission to candidacy is a function of the Program’s consideration of the student’s potential for matriculation in the Program based on his/her performance at the graduate level, and represents a stage beyond admission to the Aquaculture/Aquatic Sciences Graduate Program.  Students must be admitted to candidacy to be considered eligible for the master’s degree.  A copy of the student’s admission to candidacy application shall be submitted by his/her advisor for approval by the Aquaculture Graduate Student Coordinator and Chairperson of the Division of Mathematics and Sciences  as soon as possible.  Admission to candidacy must be approved no later than the third week of the semester in which the student is enrolled in any of the last 12 semester credit hours of his/her degree program.  To accomplish this, the required papers for admission to candidacy must be received by the Aquaculture Graduate Student Coordinator prior to the student’s registration in any of the last 12 semester credit hours of the degree program.  A student will not be eligible to graduate in the same semester he/she is admitted to candidacy, unless that student is completing the program within two consecutive semesters.  A permanent committee will be assigned upon approval of candidacy.  The permanent committee will consist of the Aquaculture Graduate Coordinator, the major professor (Chair), and one other faculty member from the Aquaculture  Program or the Division of Mathematics and Sciences.  Admission to candidacy must be completed prior to scheduling of the written comprehensive examination(s) or thesis final defense.

 All conditions for clear admission to the Program and any prerequisites must have been satisfied before the candidacy application is approved.  No student shall become an approved candidate without a minimum overall and program graduate grade-point average of 3.0; no graduate credit shall be granted for a grade below “C”; and no student may repeat a course to improve his/her standing without the explicit permission of his/her advisor and the Aquaculture Graduate Student Coordinator.

 When a student’s candidacy is approved, the student is notified that he/she is a candidate for the degree program.  After becoming a candidate, a student is eligible to file an application for graduation.  An application for graduation must be received in the Division of Mathematics and Sciences prior to the semester in which the program completion is expected (see the Academic Calendar for submission dates).  Graduation application forms are available upon request from the Office of Records and Registration.  Students should refer to the following section for complete details concerning application for graduation.  Fees will be billed to the student’s account by the cashier.

 Students will be considered candidates for graduation only if they have an overall and program graduate grade-point average of 3.0 or higher at the beginning of the term in which they wish to graduate.