Cleveland State University
Graduate Admissions
2121 Euclid Avenue
Parker Hannifin Hall, 2nd floor
Cleveland, OH 44115-2214
Campus Location
Parker Hannifin Hall, 2nd floor
2258 Euclid Avenue
Phone: 216.687.5599
Fax: 216.687.5400
Graduate Admissions Contact
Graduate Admissions Office
graduate.admissions @csuohio.edu
Phone: 216.687.5599
Web Content Contact
Charles Newton
grad@csuohio.edu
Non Degree Students
Enrollment Conditions
The following conditions
must be met by non-degree graduate students:
1. Students must meet
course
prerequisites unless waived by the instructor. In some cases, program
authorization
is also required.
2. Students are permitted
to
enroll in classes on a space-available basis. Priority is given to
graduate
degree, certificate, and licensure students when enrollment is limited.
3. Non-degree students
are
graded on a letter-grade basis. Exceptions
are made only if the student
requests Audit (N/C) or
Satisfactory/Fail (S/F)
status at the time of registration or within the first week of classes.
Students must perform at the B or better level to receive a
Satisfactory grade.
4. Non-degree students
may
not earn a graduate degree, certificate, or license awarded by the
University.
5. Non-degree graduate
students are not eligible for Graduate Assistantship
or Graduate Tuition Grant awards.
A non-degree graduate
student who wishes to enroll in a graduate degree, certificate, or
licensure
program must submit an updated graduate admission application form,
submit all
credentials required for admission to a graduate degree, certificate,
or licensure
program,
and meet all requirements thereof. A student
who has an undergraduate grade-point
average of less than 2.75, but
who has completed twelve or more graduate credit hours with a 3.0 or
better grade-point average as
a non-degree
graduate student at Cleveland State University, may be exempted from
taking a
graduate admission examination. Such exemptions require the approval of
the
graduate program that the student wishes to enter.
Non-degree graduate students
with a Cleveland State University graduate grade-point average below 3.0 are
not
eligible for admission to a graduate degree, certificate, or licensure
program.
To be considered for degree, certificate, or licensure admission, the
graduate GPA must be raised to
at least 3.0.
A student who changes from
non-degree to degree status may be permitted, with
program
approval, to apply a maximum of twelve graduate credits of non-degree
course
work toward fulfillment of master’s degree requirements. A student may
petition for an extension of the twelve-credit limit. If
approved by the graduate committee, such requests do not require the
review and
approval of the College of Graduate
Studies Petitions
Committee. However, if denied at
the departmental level, requests for an extension of the twelve-credit
limit
may be submitted to the College of Graduate Studies Petitions Committee for review and
disposition.
Not more than eight credits
of graduate work taken on a satisfactory/fail basis may be applied
toward
graduate degree requirements.
Unless otherwise noted
elsewhere in this Catalog, a non-degree student is subject
to the same academic regulations that govern degree-seeking students.