Important policies extracted from the Graduate Catalog
Academic regulations (all policies)
- Attendance
- Course grades and grading system
- Repeated course
- Final examination
- Full-time/part-time/three-quarter time student status
- Independent study
- Thesis, project and dissertation committee requirements
- Graduate faculty appointments
- Thesis, project or dissertation credit requirements and policies
- Continuous enrollment
- Research subject protection and registration
- Transfer and other credit policies
- Transfer credits
- Undergraduate credit in a graduate program
- Service-learning, co-curricular learning and volunteerism
Graduate programs (specific catalog language for each)
Graduation requirements (all policies)
Degree-level graduation requirements
- Departmental program policies
- Non-degree graduate certificate
- Master’s degree
- Second master’s degree
- Acquiring a master’s degree en route to the doctoral degree
- Specialist degree
- Doctoral degree
- Doctoral candidacy
- Program Changes
Registration and records (all policies)
Student rights and responsibilities (all policies)
- Student academic conduct
- Course grade and program dismissal appeals
- Dissertation, specialist project and thesis appeals procedure
- The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
- WMU's student code
- WMU's expectations for good practice in graduate education
- WMU's adjudication of situations involving graduate students’ rights and responsibilities