1. Cumulative Grade Point Average
2. Hours Earned
3. Maximum Time Limit

It is the student’s responsibility to stay informed of the university’s SAP standards and to monitor their progress. For SAP purposes, student’s academic records are reviewed by the Scholarships and Student Aid Office each academic year at the end of the spring semester. Students who are not meeting one or more of the Satisfactory Academic Progress Standards are not eligible for financial aid for the next academic year. Eligibility may be regained by resolving all deficiencies (except the Maximum Length of Study).

Federal regulations require that students receiving financial aid maintain satisfactory academic progress from both qualitative and quantitative measures: cumulative GPA and hours earned compared to hours attempted.

Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA)
Graduate students must maintain a 3.0 cumulative grade point average. Law students must have a cumulative grade point average of 1.8 at the end of the first year of enrollment and a cumulative grade point average of at least 2.0 for remaining years.Students pursuing a graduate degree must maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.0.

Note: To remain eligible for financial aid, graduate students must earn 75% of total attempted hours for all previous graduate level periods of enrollment.

• Full-time enrollment: 9 or more course credit hours
• Half-time enrollment: 4.5 course credit hours

Hours Earned (Compared to Hours Attempted)
To remain eligible for financial aid, graduate and law students must earn at least 80% of total cumulative hours attempted. For financial aid purposes, the following definitions and conditions apply:

To earn hours at NCCU, one must receive a grade of A, B, C (including "+" or "-"). Allother grades, including F, I, W,WF, WC, NP, NU, or AU, do not earn hours. Classes from which a student withdraws after the drop/add period count as attempted but not earned hours. Therefore, withdrawing from classes after the drop/add period will negatively affect students' ability to satisfy the hours earned standard.

Audited courses count as attempted but not earned hours. Therefore, auditing classes will negatively affect students' ability to satisfy the hours earned standard When a student repeats a course, the total attempted hours will increase with each repeat, but the student may only earn hours for a successfully completed course once. Therefore, repeating courses may negatively affect students' ability to satisfy the hours earned standard. Accepted transfer credit will count as both attempted and earned hours.

Annual Satisfactory Academic Progress Reviews
At the end of the spring semester, a year-end review is completed, and students who are out of compliance with one or more of the satisfactory academic progress standards become ineligible for further financial aid until all deficiencies are remedied. The Scholarships and Student Aid Office sends written notification of ineligibility to students at their permanent addresses as listed in official university records in the Registrar's Office. Satisfactory Academic Progress and eligibility for financial aid are determined each academic year after the spring semester grades are available.

Appeals
Federal regulations allow for certain special cases in which the university may waive the standards. Appeals for the waiver may be considered if a student's failure to comply with one or more areas of Satisfactory Academic Progress is due to events beyond the student's control, such as a student's extended illness, serious illness or death in the immediate family, or other significant life experience and if such mitigating circumstances can be appropriately documented for the specific term(s) in which the deficiency occurred. Eligibility may be regained by appeal for a fall or spring semester. Contact the Scholarships and Student Aid Office to obtain an Appeal for Reinstatement of Eligibility form or click here.


This SAP policy was approved April, 2007 and SAP will be measured by this policy at the end of Spring 2007 and replaces all previous SAP policies.

For further information regarding Satisfactory Academic Progress, the student should contact the Scholarships and Student Aid Office at North Carolina Central University