Graduation Requirements

In the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management .

The following criteria and policies apply to the Two-Year Residential MBA degree requirements:

• Students must satisfy all core course requirements.
• Students must complete 60 graduate-level credits within MBA programs.
• Students must have grade-point averages of at least 2.70 overall and 2.50 in core courses, excluding the first grade for any course that was required to be retaken. Grades of INCOMPLETE (INC) count as F in these averages.
• Students may take no more than eighteen (18) credit hours in any semester toward the graduation requirement, subject to the following exception: up to four (4) hours in excess of the eighteen (18) hour maximum will count toward graduation if the student’s grade-point average for the semester is at least 3.70 and no grade was below B. (Cornell Tech students are excluded)
• Students may take up to two courses (regardless of credit) that are optionally graded and the students enrolls for the satisfactory/unsatisfactory option may be used towards graduation requirements.
• Students may take a maximum of 1.5 total credits of Managerial Skills and Leadership Programs courses (NMI 5050) toward graduation.
• Students may enroll in Physical Education (PE) courses, however PE will not, under any circumstances, count toward MBA degree requirements.
• Students may enroll in undergraduate courses (under 5000 level), however these credits will not, under any circumstances, count toward MBA degree requirements.

For all other degrees, please consult the respective degree program description for all graduation requirements.