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Undergraduate Graduation Office

The Undergraduate Graduation Office is located in the Registrar’s Office at 3002 Carter Hall. The office is open Monday through Friday, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Advisors are available during this time to assist students with their academic degree audit, evaluation of their progress towards completion of their degree, and application for graduation.

Advisors

JJ (Judi) Michalik

Ted Cain

Stacy Sharp

Baccalaureate

A bachelor's degree is an academic title granted to a student who has completed a specific course of study. Degree titles are authorized by the Colorado Commission on Higher Education and programs leading to the degrees are administered by the University, a college, a department, and sometimes a program board or coalition of study.

The faculty of UNC has established the general requirements a student must meet to earn a baccalaureate degree:

• Earn a minimum of 120 semester credit hours.
• Have a University of Northern Colorado cumulative grade point average of at least 2.00.
• Certain programs or majors may have additional requirements (e.g. recommendation for teacher licensure for elementary education requires a UNC cumulative grade point average of at least 2.75).
• Have at least 40 credit hours in courses designated as Liberal Arts Core.
• Meet all requirements for the bachelor's degree in your major field of study, as listed in the catalog when the first major is officially declared. If applicable, teacher licensure requirements must be satisfied.
• UNC undergraduate catalogs expire at the end of six years.

Double Degree

You may complete the requirements for two majors (a "double major," the concurrent completion of the requirements for two majors), in which case both majors will be listed on the transcript.  Undergraduate students who have two majors and have satisfactorily completed a minimum total of 150 semester hours of credit, will receive diplomas indicating the awarding of two degrees simultaneously.  A student with less than 150 semester credit hours will receive one diploma and one degree appropriate for the major declared as the first major with both majors stated on the diploma.  Additional hours above the minimum requirement for a degree are incorporated into that degree program and may not be used to meet other requirements.

Next Higher Degree

You may, in the last semester of study for one degree, register for graduate courses that exceed the requirements for that degree, provided that your application for admission to the next higher degree program is accepted before the start of the final semester. If you have been admitted to the program for the next higher degree at UNC, you must complete "A Petition to Count Work on the Next Higher Degree" that may be obtained from the Graduate School, (970)351-2831.