Receiving Aid in '08-'09
Academic Progress
University of Florida students receiving financial aid are required to be in good standing and maintain satisfactory academic progress. To be eligible to receive financial aid, students must comply with the following conditions.
Undergraduates
- Students must have a cumulative 2.0 grade point average by the end of 60 carried academic credit hours and must maintain at least a cumulative 2.0 grade point average throughout their undergraduate enrollment. Students failing to meet this requirement will be suspended from receiving financial aid until they meet the requirement.
- Until the completion of 60 academic credit hours, students' progress for financial aid purposes will be evaluated under the same standards approved by the University Senate for determining eligibility for continued enrollment:
- Students who have from .5 to 14.5 grade points less than a 2.0 cumulative grade point average will be placed on financial aid probation.
- Students who have 15 or more grade points less than a 2.0 cumulative grade point average will be suspended from financial aid for one term.
- Students who do not reduce their grade point deficit to less than 15 deficit grade points the following term of enrollment will be terminated from financial aid.
- Students who reduce their grade point deficit to less than 15 grade points below a 2.0 cumulative grade point average will return to the status outlined in 2a. of this section.
- Any action taken by the University Senate Committee on Student Petitions regarding students' appeals of suspended enrollment because of grade point deficit (for students who have not yet earned 60 credit hours) will also apply to the financial aid component of the academic progress policy.
- Students will not be eligible for aid if they do not earn a baccalaureate degree after carrying 150 credit hours (whether or not they received aid for all terms), with the following exception:
- Students may carry up to 160 credit hours for programs that regularly require more than 120 earned hours to achieve a baccalaureate degree.
- All students regardless of classification must earn 75% of all hours attempted.
- Students who do not earn 75% of all credit hours attempted will be placed on financial aid probation for one term. During the following term of enrollment, these students must raise their percentage of credit hours earned to the specified minimum. Students who do not will be suspended from aid until they meet this standard.
Post-Baccalaureate Students
Students enrolled in postbaccalaureate studies must petition the Academic Progress Appeals Committee to continue to receive financial aid. Postbaccalaureate students must meet the same academic requirements as undergraduates, as specified under I.A.1. above. The types of financial aid available to postbaccalaureate students will depend on the student’s degree-seeking status.
Graduate Students
Since many courses require research projects which take more than a semester to complete, grades of “I” are routinely posted until the coursework has been finished. Therefore, the following satisfactory progress standards have been designed to take this grading practice into account.
Students must maintain a minimum 2.0 cumulative grade point average or meet the academic standards required by their departments, whichever is higher.
Students will be ineligible for aid if they do not attain their degree objectives after carrying the maximum number of credit hours listed below (whether or not they have received aid for all terms):
- 70 credit hours at the graduate level for a master's degree program.
- 164 credit hours at the graduate level for a doctor of pharmacy degree.
- 100 credit hours at the graduate level for a specialist's degree program (including master's degree hours).
- 120 credit hours at the graduate level for a doctoral degree program (including master's degree hours).
- Students must earn 75% of credit hours carried at the graduate level.
- Students who do not earn 75% of credit hours carried will be on financial aid probation for one term. During the following term of enrollment these students must raise their percentage of credit hours earned to the minimum. If they do not, they will be suspended from aid until they meet the standard.
Law Students
Students must maintain a 2.0 minimum cumulative grade point average, or meet academic standards required by the College of Law, whichever is higher.
- Students will be ineligible for aid if they do not attain their degree objective after carrying the maximum credit hours listed below (whether or not they received aid for those terms):
- 45 credit hours at the graduate level for students enrolled in the Master of Laws in Taxation Program.
- 100 credit hours at the graduate level for students enrolled in the Juris Doctor Program.
Students will be evaluated each term for eligibility to enroll the following term.
Professional Students in the Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, and Veterinary Medicine
Since professional schools use a nontraditional grading system (one not based upon grade point average) to assess satisfactory completion of course work, the same policy (a similar nontraditional approach) will be used to measure qualitative progress for continuing financial aid eligibility.
Students must earn their degrees within four years.
- Students will be evaluated annually in September to determine advancement to the next class level.
- Students who do not advance to the next class level but are still eligible for enrollment will be on financial aid probation for the following year. Students who have not advanced to the next class level by the end of the probationary period will no longer be eligible for financial aid.
Additional Policies Which Apply to All Students
- Treatment of course withdrawals, incompletes, and course repetitions will conform to the academic standards for the University of Florida for determining grade point average.
- Remedial courses are not offered at the University of Florida.
Students who think extenuating circumstances have contributed to their failure to maintain satisfactory academic progress may petition the Academic Progress Appeals Committee for reassessment of their status.
Other Categories
Students enrolled in curricula not specifically addressed in this policy must petition the Academic Progress Appeals Committee to continue to receive financial aid.