Academic Requirements for Urban Planning

CREDIT REQUIREMENTS

All courses leading to the master's degree must be taken at the University of Kansas, except that up six hours of graduate credit may be transferred and applied to a program leading to the master's degree, subject to approval by the Program Chair. Eight hours may be approved for transfer if the student holds a baccalaureate degree from the University of Kansas. Transfer credit is only given for courses in which the final grade was A or B.

GRADES

The grading system in the Graduate School is an A, B, C, D, F system, where A designates above-average graduate work; B, average graduate work; C, passing but below average graduate work; D and F, failing graduate work. The suffixes + and - are used and counted in grade point averages. Upon falling below a cumulative graduate grade-point average of B (3.0), the student may be placed on probation or dismissed from the Program. At the end of the next semester of enrollment, the student's overall graduate average must be raised to a B (in which case the student is returned to regular status) or a departmental recommendation will be required for the student to continue in graduate study.

DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

To complete requirements for the master's degree, a student must present a record of 48 credit hours with a grade point average of at least 3.0. All required Planning courses must be included in this calculation.