Grading Policy

POLICY:

1. Grades for the School of Nursing Graduate Programs are reported on the following scale:

2. Grades carrying no quality points:
   G – Unfinished course work because of extenuating personal circumstances
   H – Exceptional completion of course requirements
   I – Ongoing study such as incomplete research, work in individual guidance courses, clinical work or seminars.
   N – Non-credit audit
   R – Resignation, when student resigns from University
   S – Satisfactory completion of course requirements
   U – Unsatisfactory completion of course requirements
   W – Withdrawal from a course
   Z – Invalid grade reported
   ** – No grade reported
3. Letter grades (A, B, C, D, F) will be used for the following types of courses: seminar, lecture, combination lecture and clinical, and Master’s Research Practicum [except for the doctoral level research practicum course].
4. Letter grades (A, B, C, D, F) or H/S/U can be used for clinical courses depending on the discretion of the program.
5. The I/H/S/N/U grade is used for Thesis, Dissertation, DNP Project, DNP Clinical and any doctoral level research practicum.
6. A graduate student may audit a course upon the written approval of the specific course instructor and an undergraduate student may audit a graduate course but must complete the Grade Option form (see Policy 300). The course appears on the transcript with an "N" (non-credit audit) designation, or a "W" (withdrawal) designation.
7. At the instructor’s discretion, H/S/U may be used as a grading option for graduate level courses taken by students as elective courses and for which students request an H/S/U grade.
8. Only letter grades carry grade points.

PROCEDURE:

The following grading point scale is used for all graduate courses: