Baccalaureate Degree Policies and Procedures - To qualify for the baccalaureate degree, a student must satisfy the specific requirements in the following areas:

Units Requirements - A minimum of 180 quarter units is required, including at least 60 upper-division.

Note:    Students who began their university curriculum in the fall of 1979 or thereafter will be limited to 8 units of credit in Physical Education 150 or equivalent activities courses which may be applied toward graduation.

Residency Requirements - A student must complete a minimum of 45 quarter units in resident study at CSUB.  Thirty-six (36) of these units shall be earned in upper-division courses, and 18 upper-division units shall be earned in the major.

Academic Scholarship Requirements - Each student must complete, with a grade point average (GPA) of 2.0 (C) or better: (1) all acceptable university units attempted, including all transfer units, (2) all units counted toward satisfaction of the major requirements; (3) all units counted toward satisfaction of the minor requirements, if applicable; and (4) all units attempted at CSUB, except that only courses in which a letter grade is assigned (A, B, C, D, F, including pluses and minuses) are used in computing the GPA.  Students must clear grades of “I,” “RP,” or “RD” before they can graduate.

Currency of Courses Requirements - CSUB students pursuing a baccalaureate degree must satisfy major and minor requirements, including all required cognates and prerequisite courses, within ten (10) years of the date of the award of the baccalaureate degree.

Exceptions to the policy may be granted if a student can demonstrate currency in the relevant course or courses to the satisfaction of the faculty in the department or program offering the major and minor.  Students should consult their academic advisor about how to demonstrate currency for course work that is completed 10 or more years prior to the anticipated award of the baccalaureate degree.

The academic dean responsible for the major or minor program must approve all exceptions to this currency of courses requirement.

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Catalog Requirements for Graduation - Students may elect to meet the graduation requirements in effect at any one of the three times indicated below.

1.   During the term in which graduation requirements are completed.

2.   During the term they started course work at CSUB.

3.   During the term they began college-level course work applicable to the baccalaureate degree, provided they have been in continuous enrollment in regular sessions and in the same general education curriculum in any California public university (California State Universtiy or University of California) or California community college.

Applicable University Requirements - To maintain rights to a set of graduation requirements a student must remain in continuous enrollment.  “Continuous enrollment” means that the student must enroll during two quarters or one semester of each calendar year at CSUB, another CSU campus, a UC campus, or a California community college.  Summer sessions do not count toward continuous enrollment.  Absence due to an approved educational leave or for attendance at another accredited institution of higher learning shall not be considered an interruption in continuous enrollment, if the absence does not exceed two (2) years.

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Applicable Major/Minor Requirements - The University allows the students three (3) options in selecting their major and minor requirements.  Students may choose to satisfy major and minor requirements:

1.   From the Catalog in effect when they began continuous enrollment in the university;

2.   From the Catalog in effect at the time they formally declare a major or minor; or

3.   From the Catalog in effect at the time they graduate from CSUB.

Students who select option 3 would not be held to new General Education or other graduation requirements.

Students must declare a major by the time they achieve junior standing, i.e., have  90 quarter units of coursework listed on their transcript, and they must declare the Catalog under which they intend to graduate when they file for graduation.