Welcome prospective graduates! We are excited that you’ve reached this point in your collegiate career. Applying for program completion is one of the final steps before your graduation check-out can begin. We encourage you to work closely with your advisor to ensure that all your degree requirements have been met. Please follow the instructions below to complete your online program completion application.
NOTE: Your submission of an official application for program completion is REQUIRED for you to be eligible for degree conferral.
The application opens each semester around the time classes start. The application closes the evening of the deadline to apply for graduation. The deadline to apply is published in the Academic Calendar for each semester under the General Dates banner.
If you are completing all your requirements, you can submit a program completion application through your Workday Student account. NOTE: You should not apply for program completion in a semester that you will not be finished with requirements when grades post for that term.
To apply for program completion:
Login to your Workday Student account and follow these instructions:
No commencement ceremony is held during the summer. Summer graduates walk in the fall commencement ceremony in December.
Students who apply for program completion are invited to attend the commencement ceremony for their program completion term (Summer program completion applicants will attend fall ceremony); however, degrees are not conferred at that time. Processing of the degree starts after the ceremony date for spring and fall. Summer processing of the degree will start after grades are posted for all parts of the term.
The university processes program completion as quickly as possible. However, depending on the situation, there are times when the intensive review can take up to 4-6 weeks to complete.
To qualify for graduation honors, a student must have completed a minimum of 60 hours in residence at UA Little Rock. Graduation honors are calculated on all academic work completed in UA Little Rock credit-bearing courses. For repeated courses, only the grade from the final iteration of the course will be included in the calculation of the cumulative grade point average for determining graduation honors. All work completed at all other institutions, whether accepted as transfer credit at UA Little Rock or not, will not be included in the final calculation of honors (except as noted below).
The bachelor’s degree with honors will be conferred upon candidates who graduate and earn a minimum cumulative grade point on all credit courses taken at UA Little Rock as follows:
- Summa cum laude: minimum grade point average of 3.90
- Magna cum laude: minimum grade point average of 3.70
- Cum laude: minimum grade point average of 3.50
Students who do not complete the minimum of 60 hours in residence at UA Little Rock may request, in writing, that all work completed at all other institutions, whether accepted as transfer credit at UA Little Rock or not, be used in the final calculation of honors. Requests can be sent to the Records office via email at [email protected]. For repeated courses at other institutions, only the grade from the final iteration of the course will be included in the calculation of the cumulative grade point average for determining graduation honors. Some courses from institutions outside of the U.S. are calculated in the admissions process on a pass/not pass basis. For a student to be considered for honors, all credentials from institutions outside of the U.S. must be evaluated to determine an A, B, or C equivalency.
Students granted academic clemency are still eligible to qualify for graduation honors, but they must complete a minimum of 60 hours in residence at UA Little Rock, not including the hours for which clemency was granted.
The associate degree with honors will be conferred upon candidates who have completed a minimum of 30 hours in residence at UA Little Rock and at graduation have earned a minimum cumulative grade point of 3.7 on all academic work completed in UA Little Rock credit-bearing courses. The recipient must have met all requirements for graduation with an associate degree and must not have completed more than 83 credit hours. Students who are granted academic clemency are still eligible to receive an associate degree with honors, but they must complete a minimum of 30 hours in residence at UA Little Rock, not including the hours for which clemency was granted.
A student who has earned a baccalaureate degree from UA Little Rock and is pursuing a second baccalaureate degree at UA Little Rock is granted graduation honors based on the credit hours earned after the posting of the first degree. If fewer than 30 credit hours are completed at UA Little Rock after completion of the first UA Little Rock degree, the level of graduation honors can be no higher than that obtained on the first degree. If 30 or more credit hours are completed at UA Little Rock after completion of the first UA Little Rock degree, the level of graduation honors on the second degree is based on the cumulative grade point average on coursework after the first degree.
Students who graduate from another college or university and pursue a second undergraduate degree at UA Little Rock must complete a minimum of 30 hours in residence at UA Little Rock to be eligible for honors. Graduation honors on the second degree are based on the cumulative grade point average on all UA Little Rock coursework after the first degree.
University and departmental honors (but not awards) may be posted on the academic transcript.
| Cord Color | Honor | Minimum Grade Point Average |
|---|---|---|
| Gold | Summa Cum Laude | 3.9 |
| Silver | Magna Cum Laude | 3.7 |
| Burgundy | Cum Laude | 3.5 |
| Yellow | Associate Honor | 3.7 and no more than 83 hours |
For more information, visit Academic Honors Policy
NOTE: The information you submitted on the program completion application can be changed until the ceremony. You will need to make updates through your Workday Student account.
If you plan to graduate, please pay attention to the deadlines posted in the Academic Calendar for the semester you wish to graduate.
Diplomas will print with the legal name as it appears in the Workday Student Account at the time of conferral.
All diplomas are mailed to the official contact address list on the Workday Student Account at the time of conferral.
Ensure that your information is correct in your Workday Student account before grades are due for the term. Grade due dates are published in the Academic Calendar for each semester.
If you are requesting inclusion in the Priority Graduation Checkout (First review and conferral) applicant group, Students who apply for program completion are invited to attend the commencement ceremony for their program completion term (Summer program completion applicants will attend fall ceremony); however, degrees are not conferred at that time. Processing of the degree starts after the ceremony date for spring and fall. Summer processing of the degree will start after grades are posted for all parts of the term.
While the university processes graduation as quickly as possible, there are times when the intensive review can take up to 4-6 weeks to complete. Students pending degree conferral in the following degree programs will be automatically added to the Priority Graduation Checkout group:
- Building Level Administration and Supervision-GC
- Education – MED
- Education-K-12 Education-MED
- Education-Middle Education-MED
- Education-Special Education K-12-MED
- Educational Administration-EDD
- Educational Administration-EDS
- Elementary Education K-6-BSE
- Elementary Education-BSE
- Gift/Creative/Talented-MED
- Middle Childhood Education-BSE
- Middle Childhood Education-MED
- Nursing-BSN
- Nursing-AAS
- Reading-MED
- Rural/Urban School Leadership-MEd
- Social Work Clinical-MSW
- Social Work Mgmt/Comm-MSW
- Social Work-BSW
- Social Work-MSW
- Special Education K-12-GC
- Special Education-BSE
- Special Education-MED
- Teaching Gifted/Talented-GC
Four other groups of students are eligible to request inclusion in the Priority Graduation Checkout group:
- Students who are seeking admission into a UA Little Rock program and have already applied for admission into that program,
- Students who will be required to satisfy international or embassy requirements for degree conferral under deadlines,
- Students who will be required to satisfy employer requirements for degree conferral under deadlines and have written documentation of that request
- Students who request, pay for, and select the “Hold for Degree” notation on the transcript request.
Eligible Students may apply by requesting priority checkout via email to [email protected].
If you need to withdraw a graduation application, you may only do so before it is either awarded or denied for the semester of the application. Please submit the Request for Graduation Application Withdrawal form.