Policy Number: AUS-AAP.002.001

Audience: Students and academic personnel

Sponsor: Office of Academic Affairs

The work of all students at AUS is reported in grades. Instructors are required to assign a final grade for each student enrolled in a course.

GRADE POINTS

Grade points per credit are assigned as follows:

Grade Letter A+

• Grade Percentage: 97.5 – 100

• Grade Points: 4.3

• Grade Quality: Exemplary

Grade Letter A

• Grade Percentage: 92.5 – 97.4

• Grade Points: 4.0

• Grade Quality: Exemplary

Grade Letter A-

• Grade Percentage: 90.0 – 92.4

• Grade Points: 3.7

• Grade Quality: Exemplary

Grade Letter B+

• Grade Percentage: 87.5 – 89.9

• Grade Points: 3.3

• Grade Quality: Excellent

Grade Letter B

• Grade Percentage: 82.5 – 87.4

• Grade Points: 3.0

• Grade Quality: Excellent

Grade Letter B-

• Grade Percentage: 80.0 – 82.4

• Grade Points: 2.7

• Grade Quality: Excellent

Grade Letter C+

• Grade Percentage: 77.5 – 79.9

• Grade Points: 2.3

• Grade Quality: Satisfactory

Grade Letter C

• Grade Percentage: 72.5 – 77.4

• Grade Points: 2.0

• Grade Quality: Satisfactory

Grade Letter C-

• Grade Percentage: 70.0 – 72.4

• Grade Points: 1.7

• Grade Quality: Satisfactory

Grade Letter D+

• Grade Percentage: 67.5 – 69.9

• Grade Points: 1.3

• Grade Quality: Minimal Pass

Grade Letter D

• Grade Percentage: 62.5 – 67.4

• Grade Points: 1.0

• Grade Quality: Minimal Pass

Grade Letter D-

• Grade Percentage: 60.0 – 62.4

• Grade Points: 0.7

• Grade Quality: Minimal Pass

Grade Letter F

• Grade Percentage: 0.0 – 59.9

• Grade Points: 0.0

• Grade Quality: Fail

OTHER TYPES OF GRADE

Grade Letter AUD

• A student auditing a course is expected to attend courses on a regular basis as an observer. Audits are not free; a course is taken for audit costs, like one for credit. Students who are not paying full-time fees will be assessed per-credit fees for an audit course. Auditors do not take examinations or submit assessments. Auditors will receive a final S (Satisfactory) or NR (No Report) grade.

• Audit courses do not satisfy any credit, coursework, or degree requirements, nor do they count in fulfilling the minimum or maximum credits required in each term. If students audit a course and do not attend or drop it, they will receive a grade of NR (No Report).

• Dissertators who audit a course in addition to the 3-credit research requirement will be removed from dissertator fee status and assessed regular graduate student fees. Students with research assistantship, fellowship, or traineeship appointments must be enrolled full-time; audited courses do not count toward full-time enrollment.

• Instructors may limit the number of auditors in a course and may restrict the participation of auditors in courses inappropriate for that function. For example, courses requiring participation (seminars, research, laboratory, performance, or language courses) are considered inappropriate for auditing.

Grade Letter I

• An Incomplete shall be given only when the student has done satisfactory work within two weeks of the end of the term or session and has furnished proof satisfactory to the instructor that the work cannot be completed because of illness or other circumstances beyond the student's control. A written statement of the reason for giving the Incomplete, listing the work the student will need to do to remove it, must be filed by the instructor with the head of the department or the dean of the college in which the course is given.

• To obtain credit for the course, a student must convert an Incomplete into a passing grade by the last day of the following term or session. An Incomplete grade not made up by the end of the next term or session shall be converted to the grade of 0.0 (F) by the Office of Academic Affairs unless the instructor has indicated when assigning the Incomplete grade that a grade other than 0.0 (F) should be recorded if the incomplete work is not completed.

• A student may petition the Office of Academic Affairs to retain the Incomplete grade on the student's record for a maximum of three additional terms or sessions. Petitions will be granted by the Office of Academic Affairs if approved by the course instructor. The Office of Academic Affairs must receive petitions before the end of the term or session in which the I grade will become a failure.

• In no case shall an Incomplete on the record when a degree is granted be subsequently changed to any other grade.

• The grade I shall count neither for registered hours nor in calculating grade-point averages.

• For online courses that do not follow the semester schedule, an Incomplete shall be given only when the student has done satisfactory work within two weeks of the maximum term or session for course completion, as specified at the time of registration. To obtain credit for the course, a student must convert an Incomplete into a passing grade by the end of the term or session following the one in which the Incomplete was given.

Grade Letter IP

For certain courses extending over more than one term, evaluation of student performance is deferred until the end of the final term of the course. Provisional grades of In Progress (IP) are assigned in the intervening term(s) and are replaced with the final grade, and credit/units are awarded and calculated in the culminating term upon completion of the full sequence. The school faculty, or the Office of Academic Affairs, determines credit if students do not complete the full sequence and petition for partial credit.

Grade Letter R

• A student in good standing who has failed a required course must repeat the course or take, with the Dean's approval, a second examination without registration when a regular examination for the course is offered. If a passing grade is received upon reexamination, the student receives the same credit for the course carried out when the student was first examined. The failing grade remains on the record, but only the passing grade is computed in the student's grade point average.

• A student may also be required to repeat a course or courses as a condition of readmission at the discretion of the Dean.

• In no other circumstances will a grade earned in a course the student has previously audited or taken for credit be computed in the student's grade point average.

Grade Letter TRUP

Transferring an undergraduate-level course from the other institution with a Pass grade.

Grade Letter TRGP

Transferring an graduate-level course from the other institution with a Pass grade.

Grade Letter W

Students drop out from a course or the University.

GRADE-POINT AVERAGE (GPA)

• GPA is the total number of grade points earned divided by the number of credit hours attempted.

• A plus (+) or minus (−) suffix added to a grade raises or lowers the grade-point value.