Semester Hour Requirement

Associate’s Degrees

Applicants must complete a minimum of sixty (60) semester hours including the core curriculum and major requirements.

Baccalaureate Degrees

Applicants must complete a minimum of one hundred and twenty (120) semester hours of academic work which must include a minimum of thirty-nine (39) semester hours of upper division courses overall and twenty-one (21) semester hours in the major.

*Policy 2.3.1 Majors and Minors of the Board of Regents Academic & Student Affairs Handbook, “A baccalaureate degree must contain 120 semester hours (exclusive of physical education activity/basic health or orientation course hours that the institution may require)."