Unsatisfactory progress in a degree program may be defined as one
or more of the following:
- a student's failure to maintain a "B" average on all graduate
courses attempted;
- failure of a Master's Core
Examination or a Ph.D. Comprehensive
Area Examination;
- failure of the Preliminary Examination.
In January, May, and August of each year, the Graduate Coordinating Committee will
review the academic records of students who were admitted with
contingent or provisional status, are currently on probation, have
earned a grade of "D", "F", or "U" during the previous semester, or
have earned more than two grades below "B". The Graduate Coordinating
Committee will consider making a recommendation to the Dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences that a student be dismissed from his/her degree program
if any of the following conditions exist:
- the student's progress in his/her degree program is deemed
unsatisfactory;
- the student is not making satisfactory progress toward satisfying
any condition of his/her contingent admission;
- the student is on academic probation and cannot meet the
requirements for good academic standing within the next nine credit
hours taken in the student's program of study.
Any of the following will result in a recommendation for dismissal from
a graduate degree program:
- two failures on the Master's Core
Examinations or two failures on a Ph.D.
Comprehensive Area Examination;
- failure of a student in provisional status to achieve a 3.0 GPA
on the first nine hours of regular graduate level courses taken at
Mississippi State University;
- more than two grades below a "B";
- a grade of "D", "F", or "U" in any course (graduate or undergraduate)
taken while the student is enrolled in a graduate program in mathematics
or statistics.
The student and advisor (if different from the Graduate Coordinator)
will be notified in writing when the first and second unsatisfactory
grades are received.
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