This section of the Graduate Student Handbook covers all aspects of your academic requirements, graduate student policies, and academic procedures.

Degree Characteristics

Graduate Programs

• Master's Degrees

• Post-graduate Credentials and Advanced Certificates

• Doctoral Degrees

Master's Degree Program Life Cycle

• Program Life Cycle

• Graduate Admission

• Graduate Classification

• Core and Elective Coursework

• Student Placement Agreements

• Advancing to Candidacy

• Culminating Experiences

• Research Protocols

• Maintaining Continuous Enrollment While Completing Your Culminating Experience

• Commencement Ceremony

• Graduation

Minimum Program Requirements

• Unit Requirements

• Grade Point Average

• Unit Residence Requirements and Credit for Transfer Work

Campus Graduate Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement (CGGWAR)

Time Limits

Grades

• Letter Graded - "Graded or "Normal Grade Rules

• Auditing a Class - "AU"

• Non-traditional (Credit/No Credit - "CR/NC"

• Other Grade Explanations

• Grading System for Graduate Work

• Repetition of Coursework

Maintaining Academic Standing

• Academic Notice and Disqualification

• Administrative Academic Probation and Disqualification

Leaves of Absence ("Stopping Out")

Additional Procedures and Regulations

• Changing Programs

• Second Master's Degree

Life After SJSU

• The Career Center

• Alumni Association Resources