ACADEMIC AFFAIRS PROCEDURE
Undergraduate Students Taking Graduate Courses
PROCEDURE
A Ramapo College undergraduate student who wishes to take a Ramapo College graduate course must be
a matriculated undergraduate student in good standing, must receive positive endorsement from his/her
academic advisor, and must receive permission from the director of the graduate program that sponsors the
course that he/she wishes to take. Granted that permission, the student will be considered a nonmatriculated student in the graduate program but will pay undergraduate tuition and fees for the graduate
course. The student may take a maximum of two graduate courses (i.e., a maximum of 8 credits) during
his/her undergraduate career.
The graduate course appears on both the graduate transcript and the undergraduate transcript with the
same subject code, number, title, number of credits, and grade. In addition, the course requires graduatelevel work.
As part of the undergraduate transcript, the course counts in the student’s undergraduate semester and
cumulative GPAs, overall and (if applicable) major GPAs, and total number of credits attempted and
earned. The course also affects the student’s undergraduate academic standing, applies towards
undergraduate degree requirements (e.g., the required number of credits to graduate), and may satisfy
specific course requirements in the major or the minor.
If the student graduates with the undergraduate degree and later matriculates in a Ramapo College
graduate program, the student may also use those graduate courses, if applicable, to satisfy graduate
degree requirements. In other words, the graduate courses may double-count in both the undergraduate
and the graduate degree programs.
Procedure 300-ZZ