Tandon School of Engineering Academic Standing and Probation Policy

First Probation
Students are placed on First Probation following the first semester that their cumulative GPA drops below 3.0. All students on their first term of academic probation are required to meet with their academic advisor to discuss a plan to improve their academic progress, and to complete the First Probation form. Once the form has been completed and signed by both the student and their advisor, the student must then submit the completed form to the Office of Graduate Academics.

Final Probation
Students are placed on Final Probation (or second academic probation) following the second semester their cumulative GPA drops below 3.0. All students on Final Probation are required to again meet with their academic advisor to discuss a plan to improve their academic status, and to complete the Final Probation form. Once the form has been completed and signed by both the student and their advisor, the student must then submit the completed form to the Office of Graduate Academics. Tandon graduate students are only allotted two terms of academic probation. Any student whose cumulative GPA remains below 3.0 at the end of their Final Probation semester (when all grades are posted) will be academically disqualified and dismissed from NYU Tandon.

Note about the Summer Semester: Academic status is determined based on a student's cumulative GPA at the end of the fall and spring semesters. Although students may take courses to improve their grades in the summer term, this will not affect their academic status for the following fall semester. For example, if a student has a 2.9 cumulative GPA at the end of the spring term and raises their cumulative GPA to 3.0 in the summer term, the student will still be on academic probation in the fall term, because their academic status is based on their cumulative GPA at the end of the spring term. However, if a student was admitted in the summer term and the summer term is their first term as a graduate student at NYU Tandon, then their academic status for their following term will be based on their summer grades, since the summer term was their first term. Subsequent summer terms beyond their first term will not affect their academic status.

Acknowledgment of Disqualification and Successful Appeal
Students are academically disqualified from further study at NYU Tandon if their cumulative GPA is below 3.0 for more than two semesters (semesters do not have to be sequential). Students who have been disqualified may appeal to the Graduate Appeals Committee for one final semester of study. If the Committee approves, then the student must meet with his/her academic advisor and complete the Acknowledgment of Disqualification and Successful Appeal form. After the advisor and student have signed the form, the student will then give the form to the Office of Graduate Academics.

A Post-Academic DQ Probation hold will be placed on Albert for students who have been granted an extra semester. This hold blocks all registration activity on a date to be determined by Graduate Academics, normally before the start of the new semester. Students must make all registration changes before the hold takes effect. Students approved for post-disqualification terms are no longer eligible to receive a Leave of Absence.

Appeal of Academic Disqualification Form
This form is to be used by graduate (M.S. and Ph.D.) students who wish to appeal their academic disqualification from NYU Tandon.

Please see the Bulletin for the official policy.

Tandon School of Engineering Repeating Courses Policy

The first time a graduate student repeats a course, the lower grade is not counted towards the GPA. All subsequent grades in a course repeated more than once are included in the GPA, although degree credit is earned only once. Please see the Bulletin for the official policy