Senior Privilege Option

Qualified non-education undergraduate students may enroll for graduate credit in courses numbered 500 and above in special cases. Work taken by undergraduates may be applied toward a graduate degree only if the following conditions are met:

1. Approval is obtained from the chair of the student’s current department, chair of the major department concerned, the academic deans of the respective colleges, and the Dean of The Harold Loyd Murphy Graduate School.
2. The student has completed at least 93 credits of undergraduate hours with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher.
3. This privilege is exercised only during the senior year for a maximum of six hrs.
4. The student has demonstrated in undergraduate coursework the capability of performing graduate-level work in the area identified.

The student may qualify for this privilege by securing the required signatures on the Senior Privilege Form, available from The Murphy Graduate School, and returning to The Murphy Graduate School for final approval prior to registration. Once the senior privilege has been approved, the student must submit the form to the Office of Records and Registration to input the graduate course.