Degree Completion
Students must meet all requirements in a degree program to participate in commencement exercises. North Greenville University holds two commencement exercises each academic year. The spring commencement is held in May, and the fall commencement is held in December.
Graduation Requirements
All students who receive a degree from North Greenville University must complete one of the prescribed degree programs. Ordinarily 128 semester hours is required for the Bachelor’s degree, excluding hours earned for chapel, with a minimum grade point average of 2.0 (some majors require between 120-127 hours and some require more than 128 hours and have higher GPA requirements). Thirty (30) of the last thirty-six (36) hours must be earned at North Greenville University unless an exception is approved by the respective Dean and the Provost.
Application for Graduation
Upon earning 90 credit hours towards a degree, student should visit my.ngu.edu and complete an Application for Graduation. A graduation fee will be charged during the term in which the student commences. Fee amount will be consistent with published rate for academic year in which commencement takes place.
Application Deadlines:
December Commencement August 1
May Commencement December 1
Early Commencement Policy
An undergraduate student may participate in spring commencement as an anticipated graduate with up to 6 hours remaining after the spring semester, provided that he/she is able to complete the remaining hours during the summer. Early commencement policy does not apply to fall commencement.
An undergraduate student who is enrolled in an online program, but not finished with the spring semester due to the separate academic calendar for NGU Online courses, may participate in spring commencement as an anticipated graduate with up to 6 hours remaining after the spring semester, provided that he/she is on track to pass all spring courses and is able to complete the remaining hours during the summer.
Anticipated graduates will not be eligible to receive Latin honors at spring commencement because all required coursework has not been completed; appropriate Latin honors will be indicated on the student’s diploma and transcript once it is awarded following the successful completion of all coursework.
Graduation Under a Particular Catalog
Graduate degree requirements are governed by the catalog in effect at the time of a student’s first enrollment in graduate courses (when the student establishes a transcript) or by any subsequent catalog, whichever the student chooses, within a period of five consecutive years. Degree requirements must be from one catalog. Unless the student formally requests to change catalogs, the catalog of record will be defined as the catalog in force when the student first enrolled in graduate course work. Requests to change catalogs should be made in writing and submitted to the Associate Provost for Graduate Studies. In all cases, all courses taken for credit toward the degree must have been completed within the stated time limit.