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Academic Requirements
Harvard Griffin GSAS strives to provide students with timely, accurate, and clear information. If you need help understanding a specific policy, please contact the office that administers that policy.
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Common Requirements
Harvard Griffin GSAS students are required to:
- remain continuously registered and enrolled
- maintain a satisfactory grade-point average
- provide evidence that satisfactory progress is being made toward the degree.
Continuous registration may be interrupted by academic terms of withdrawal.
All Harvard Griffin GSAS programs have residence requirements both financial and academic, and many programs have language requirements (see departmental requirements for your program in this section).
- Financial credit will not be granted for tuition paid to other universities or to other Harvard Schools.
- After completing one term as a Harvard Griffin GSAS student, former special students or students who took FAS courses under the Tuition Assistance Plan (TAP) may be eligible to apply for financial andacademic credit forcoursework.
Satisfactory Progress
Students are considered making satisfactory progress if they:
- complete expected requirements
- achieve a minimum grade-point average of B (3.0).
Programs may require additional conditions. See Departmental Requirements in this section for more information.
Harvard Griffin GSAS students must make satisfactory progress to be eligible for financial aid.
Unsatisfactory Progress
Students who have not met conditions as outlined above or stated by their department, degree requirements, or deadlines may be considered to be making unsatisfactory progress and may be withdrawn from their program.
- Students making unsatisfactory progress may not teach or receive financial aid (including federal Title IV funding).
- Students making unsatisfactory progress are considered to not be in good standing with the University.
- Students may not remain in “unsatisfactory” progress, and those who do may be withdrawn from their program.
Grace Status
A student making unsatisfactory progress may, with departmental endorsem*nt, be granted the status of “grace” for up to one academic year. At the end of the stated grace period, the student must be making satisfactory progress, otherwise, they will be considered to be making unsatisfactory progress.
- In most cases, only one period of grace will be granted to a student.
- Students in “grace” status may not hold teaching appointments.
- Students in “grace” status remain eligible for institutional aid, except for federal Title IV loans and/or work-study (only students making satisfactory progress are eligible for federal Title IV funding).
CONTACT INFO
Shelby Johnson
Associate Director of Academic Programs
Phone
617-495-2815
shelby_johnson@fas.harvard.edu
Academic Programs
Address
Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center
1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 350
Cambridge, MA 02138
gsasacademicprograms@fas.harvard.edu
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