Each student must maintain a 3.0 Quality Point Average (QPA) for all credits of graduate level coursework for either degree or the certificate. Failure to maintain a 3.0 QPA in any term will result in the student being placed on academic probation immediately. If the student does not raise the QPA to a 3.0 after the next nine credits, the student will be dismissed from the program in which he or she is enrolled.

All students in the Information Science/Telecommunications programs must earn satisfactory grades in each course taken. A grade of C-, D+, D, D-, F and Unsatisfactory are unacceptable for graduation credit. A course for which such an unsatisfactory grade is earned must be repeated if it is a course that is a degree requirement (e.g., INFSCI 2000 or INFSCI 2500/2592. Courses may be repeated only once. Elective courses need not be repeated; another course may be taken to replace it. However, the original course remains on the transcript and a higher grade must be earned to maintain a 3.0 QPA.

Students must decide by no later than one week after the end of the add/drop period which grading system they propose to use for each of their courses. This decision may not be changed, nor may a grade of one kind received for a course be changed to a grade of the other kind.