For more information on academic progress as it relates to academic standards, please see the links below:
Committee on Student Progress
This relates to NYU's Financial Aid Eligibility
To be considered for financial aid each year, students must make satisfactory academic progress toward completion of their degree requirements. Students must earn a passing grade (A, B, C, D, or P, including accepted credits from Advanced Placement, Advanced Standing, and Transfer Student status) in a minimum of 76 percent of the courses in which they are enrolled each academic year (fall, spring and summer semesters) and maintain a cumulative grade point average of at least 2.0. The annual review will include courses completed up through the summer term of that academic year.
The Satisfactory Academic Progress policy contains a quantitative component, meaning that you are required to make steady progress toward your degree or aid-eligible non-degree graduate program by completing at least 76.00% of all your attempted credit hours. For example, if you attempt 16 hours per term during the academic year (32 cumulative attempted hours), you would be expected to satisfactorily complete at least 25 of these hours in order comply with the minimum quantitative standards.
The Office of Financial Aid typically conducts a SAP review at least annually at the conclusion of each academic year, and students who do not meet the requirement receive a notice on their NYU Albert account. The annual review will include courses completed up through the spring term of that academic year. Students who enroll in programs that are only one year in length will have progress checked after their first payment period (between the Fall and Spring semesters, generally).
Federal regulations require New York University to monitor the academic performance of its students for the purpose of verifying and maintaining their eligibility for federal financial aid. If you do not meet the standard of Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP), your federal financial aid will be suspended. In most cases, state and NYU financial aid (scholarship) require that the same criteria be maintained for continued eligibility. Some graduate schools have different eligibility criteria for their scholarships and students are encouraged to review their school/department criteria accordingly.
NYU does not offer ESL or remedial courses for credit towards any of its undergraduate or graduate degrees.
a. Most types of financial aid - including federal financial aid - require students be enrolled in courses that are necessary to fulfill their degree requirements; therefore, students enrolling in an excessive number of electives that are not applicable to their degree may have their financial aid revoked. To ensure applicable courses are taken, students are encouraged to seek out guidance from their academic advisors.
b. For students who change schools or change programs within NYU, all credits that count towards their degree in their new school or towards their new program are considered both attempted credits and earned credits. Credits that are not applied towards the degree in the student’s new school or towards their new program count neither as attempted credits nor as earned credits.
c. All repeated courses count as both attempted and earned credits (unless a passing grade has already been earned in that course in which case the repeated course will only count as attempted) and all types of incomplete count as attempted credits but not as earned credits.
An academic progress calculator is available here as a guide to your status.