Graduation Requirements & Approval Process

All students must meet the requirements for the degree and/or certificate program for which they are submitting an application for graduation.

Graduation Requirements and Approval Process

The steps in the graduation approval process apply to ALL degree and certificate programs:

1. Students must be approved for graduation by the Office of the Registrar after submitting the graduation application by the published hard deadline.
2. An overall and a cumulative grade point average of 2.00 (C) must be achieved in the student's total credit program. The overall grade point average includes work attempted at previously attended institutions.
3. At least 25% of the hours of course credit required for degree/certificate must be completed at SCF.
4. All candidates eligible for the Associate in Arts, the Associate in Science, the Bachelor of Applied Science, and the Bachelor of Science degrees are encouraged to be present at graduation.
5. In accordance with Florida Department of Education Administrative Rule Number 6A-10.030, all students prior to the receipt of an Associate in Arts degree are mandated to satisfactorily complete 12 semester hours of courses that include written assignments demonstrating college-level writing skills.
6. The Office of the Registrar conducts an initial review of students' course requirements and notifies students of their application statuses through their SCF email accounts (typically no longer than eight weeks after the published priority deadline).
7. Following completion of all graduation requirements, the Office of the Registrar conducts a final review and both approves and certifies each graduate.