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III. Academic Requirements for Graduation

In the last semester of the sophomore year all students must take the Rising Junior Assessment prior to being allowed to register for further courses, and they must pass the Assessment prior to acquiring 96 hours of collegiate-level credits. Students who fail to meet the minimum pass criteria for any part or parts of the Rising Junior Assessment must:
Seek appropriate remediation, and
Retake the part or parts they failed each time the Assessment is offered until they have passed all portions. The Assessment is administered twice each year, October and March, and
Pay for the cost of retakes at the prevailing rate for each portion of the test each time the Assessment is re-administered.
Students must submit a completed application for a degree to their major department according to the prescribed schedule in the Academic Calendar. No late applications will be accepted. Students must submit a new application for a degree if they have been unsuccessful with a graduation attempt. A non-refundable graduation fee is assessed each time a student applies for graduation.
No later than the semester of expected graduation, students must successfully complete a comprehensive exit assessment in the subject matter of the student's major. An assessment may include, but is not limited to, a portfolio, a written examination, a presentation, a recital, and/or a capstone course.
A student must receive a grade of "C" or better in all courses except free electives.
A student must have a cumulative grade-point average of 2.0 or better in all University courses.
A minimum of 60 semester credit hours (excluding any college preparatory and remedial courses and any courses numbered below the 100 level) is required for the awarding of an associate degree.
A minimum of 120 semester credit hours (excluding any college preparatory and remedial courses and any courses numbered below the 100 level) is required for the awarding of a baccalaureate degree. This includes a minimum of 42 semester credit hours in upper-level courses.

IV. Residency Requirements for Graduation

A minimum of 25% of all required semester hours for degree completion must be earned at Kentucky State University.
At least one-half of a student's major field academic requirements must be earned at Kentucky State University.
In order to receive a baccalaureate or an associate degree from Kentucky State University, a student must complete the last 30 of the last 36 or 12 of the last 15 semester credit hours, respectively, at the University. Courses taken under the Study Abroad program, national Exchange Student program, or as online courses (and for which students pay their tuition to Kentucky State University) are considered as courses taken as the University for purposes of the residency requirement. Any credit hours taken outside of the University must be taken from another regionally accredited post-secondary institution in accordance with regulation XXV.K. Students visiting another institution.

V. Graduation Honors

Graduation honors are awarded only to baccalaureate degree students who have earned at least 64 semester credit hours at Kentucky State University. Students who maintain a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.8 and who have received no grades of “D” or “F” in any attempt at a course are awarded the baccalaureate degree summa cum laude. Students who maintain a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.5 and who have received no grades of “D” or “F” in any attempt at a course are awarded the baccalaureate degree magna cum laude. Students who maintain a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.2 are awarded the baccalaureate degree cum laude. Students who have a GPA of 3.5 or higher and who have received a “D” or “F” in any attempt of a course are awarded the baccalaureate degree cum laude.

The baccalaureate degree or the associate degree with departmental honors will be conferred upon the student who, in addition to having completed the requirements for the degree, shall have maintained a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.0 and a grade-point average of at least 3.3 in courses required for the major. In computing academic major grade-point averages, all courses taken in a major will be counted. To be considered for academic program honors, one or two years of resi-