Academic Standards of Progress
The University of West Georgia seeks to provide an environment suitable for promoting the systematic pursuit of learning. To ensure this primary goal, the University requires of its students reasonable academic progress. The retention of those students who repeatedly demonstrate a lack of ability, industry, maturity, and preparation would be inconsistent with this requirement.
Students will be evaluated each semester on the basis of cumulative grade point average and the total number of hours attempted. Hours transferred will be included in determining the total hours attempted; however, the cumulative grade point average will be computed only on the work completed at West Georgia (institutional grade point average (GPA)). The academic standing for a semester is not adjusted when a course taken that semester is subsequently repeated during a later semester and the first grade earned is removed from the calculation of the grade point average. The cumulative grade point average required for the total number of hours attempted is given below:
Hours Attempted |
Grade Point Average |
1-30 |
1.8 |
31-60 |
1.9 |
61+ hours |
2.0 |
Under the provisions of the academic policies of West Georgia, students are classified as follows:
