Graduation
Review of Status toward Graduation
As students progress through Antioch College, they work closely with their advisors to review and revise their degree plan. This document helps to ensure that students are achieving progress towards earning a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree. Students are required to update their degree plans with the Registrar’s Office at the beginning of the fourth year. This will enable the students’ advisors and the registrar to examine the student’s academic record, degree plan, and sequences and ensure that graduation requirements can be met as anticipated by the student. Students are strongly encouraged to update their degree plans at the end of each quarter until graduation.
Application for Graduation
Students planning to graduate must complete an Application to Graduate and submit it to the Registrar’s Office by the end of the term before the term in which the student plans to graduate. A graduation fee must be paid by the time of submission of the Application to Graduate. The graduation application fee will be published with the deadline for the submission of the application. Student Accounts will add the fee to students’ bills.
Commencement and Graduation Dates
The commencement ceremony is held on the Saturday following the end of Spring term. Generally, students are expected to have completed all degree requirements prior to the commencement ceremony.
The Academic Policy and Review Committee presents the names of candidates for graduation to the faculty for a vote once a year during the last week of Spring term, and only students approved by the faculty will be permitted to participate in commencement and graduate during that year. Regardless of approval by the faculty to be included in the ceremony, only students who complete all their degree requirements by the end of Spring term will be considered graduates at the end of that term. The official graduation date will be the thirtieth day of June.
Students who have not met all of their financial obligations to the college may be permitted to participate in the commencement ceremony, but the Registrar’s Office will not release their diplomas or final transcripts until those obligations are met.
Graduation with Honors
Antioch College awards degrees with honors designations based on the cumulative grade point average of all credits earned toward the degree in attendance at Antioch College. Honors designations are as follows:
- Summa Cum Laude = 3.9 Cumulative GPA or higher*
- Magna Cum Laude = 3.7 – 3.89 Cumulative GPA*
- Cum Laude = 3.5 – 3.69 Cumulative GPA*
*Any student who is considered for graduation with honor distinctions must have no unresolved incomplete (IN), academic integrity (M) or no grade (NG) indicators on their permanent record. Any unresolved indicators or actions would eliminate a student for consideration for graduation honor with distinctions.
Official Transcripts
The official transcript is a copy of that portion of a student’s academic record that is prepared for release to a third party at the request of the student or former student. The transcript contains the following information about the student:
- Personal information: student’s name, date of birth, and student identification number
- Attendance and credits earned and attempted: dates of attendance (date of entry and each term of registration); course identification (course number and title); amount of credit earned; identification of credit system (quarter credit); credit for remedial courses or other courses not applicable to degree program; or transfer credit
- Effective withdrawal date, if applicable
- Academic standing
- Graduation date, degree conferred, Dean’s List or graduation honors, and program or major, as applicable.
Official transcript request forms are available in the Office of the Registrar. Official transcripts will not be released if student has not met financial obligations to the institution or has not paid for a transcript request.
*Allow 5-15 business days for processing the request for official transcripts.