Graduates in classified or conditionally classified standing in master's degree programs must maintain a cumulative and semester GPA of at least 3.00 to remain in good standing. A semester GPA o [..]

 Approval of colleges and universities by nationally recognized professional associations or regional accrediting bodies.

 A postsecondary institution that provides undergraduate education and, in some cases, master's level degrees. College, in a separate sense, is a division of a university; for example, College of [..]

 Final examination required for some master's degrees, sometimes in lieu of writing a thesis.

 Students enrolled on any California State University campus may enroll concurrently at another CSU campus if they have completed twelve units at the home campus with a 2.0 grade point average and are [..]

 Graduate students who have been advanced to candidacy and who have completed all course work can maintain the required active degree program status without additional University registration by enrol [..]

 Students may be declassified for "Failure to make satisfactory progress" or having too low of a GPA to advance to candidacy. Students who have been declassified must reapply to the Universi [..]

 As the final step toward a some Master's degrees or a Ph.D., candidates must pass an oral examination before their thesis or doctoral committee in defense of their thesis or dissertation.

 (See Academic Dismissal)

 A requirement for the Ph.D., the dissertation is a report of an original investigation carried out under the direction of the candidate's major professor. The dissertation must be the candidate& [..]