Graduation Requirements
All students expecting to meet graduation requirements for a degree or diploma must submit a Graduation Application to the Records and Registration department and fulfill all financial obligations to the College prior to graduation. Graduation students are required to meet program requirements outlined in the College Catalog. It is the responsibility of each student to know and meet the graduation requirements of the College in her/his program of study and to maintain the minimum required grade point average. Faculty advisors are available to work with individual students, but the final responsibility for meeting graduation requirements lies within the student.
The following list outlines the minimum requirements for graduation:
- Courses taken more than seven (7) years prior to graduation may not be applicable to certain majors. Final action is taken by the Vice President of Academic Affairs and Workforce Development and validation of competencies may be required by oral or written tests and/or demonstration of skills.
- Students must have a program grade point average of no less than 2.0 to graduate.
- Students must complete at least 25 percent semester credit hours in their program of study at Western Piedmont Community College, including the final 10 semester hours at the institution.
- In no case shall the combined total of any transfer credit hours, credit for prior learning, or course substitutions represent more than 75 percent of the specified number of hours required for the degree diploma toward which students are applying those credits.
- To qualify for any certificate, a student must complete 25 percent of the total semester credit hours of the program at WPCC. Certificates of the same disciplined degree or diploma may not be awarded during the graduating semester or after.