Three Quarters From Graduation
Using your Degree Planning Guide and working with your academic adviser, you will be able to determine when you are within three quarters from graduating: At this time, you must apply for graduation using our on-line form.

Graduation Application

Apply for Graduation from The Women's College
The academic adviser for graduating seniors will prepare a graduation checklist. Students are responsible for reviewing the checklist and ensuring all requirements are complete. The final responsibility for completing graduation requirements rests with the student. Therefore, students must contact their adviser immediately with any questions about the graduation checklist or degree requirements.

One Quarter From Graduation
Upon completion of your final quarter of academic work at The Women's College, you will be certified for graduation. For more information about this process, please contact Kate Burns at 303.871.6068 or

Kate.burns@du.edu

Commencement Ceremonies
DU hosts two commencement ceremonies annually, one in June and one in August. This is the time when our students don cap and gown and process to receive their diplomas from the chancellor in a formal ceremony. You may graduate after any quarter, however, and participate in commencement at an appropriate time as determined by your adviser.

Graduating with Honors
Honor designations for baccalaureate degrees are cum laude, magna cum laude and summa cum laude.

Cum laude is awarded to degree candidates who have completed at least 90 quarter hours with a minimum GPA of 3.750 in all course work taken at DU.

Magna cum laude is awarded to degree candidates who have completed at least 90 quarter hours with a minimum GPA of 3.850 in all course work taken at DU.

Summa cum laude is awarded to degree candidates who have earned a minimum of 135 quarter hours at DU with a minimum GPA of 3.950 overall. A candidate for this honor must present a thesis or comparable evidence of creative work in the major field to her major department.

Students who receive financial aid during their studies at DU must participate in an exit interview with the Office of Financial Aid before their diplomas will be released. Students should contact the Office of Financial Aid at 303-871-4020 to schedule an exit interview. All tuition payments, library and parking fines, and other University fees must be paid before diplomas will be released. Students are responsible for determining if they have any holds and for ensuring that those holds are released. When holds are released, students must contact the Office of the Registrar at 303-871-2284. Students can view holds on webCentral.

Graduate Studies Opportunity

Daniels College of Business Undergraduate-Graduate Dual Degree Program. Interested TWC students with undergraduate GPAs in the mid - 3.5 range who are in the first part of their senior year can:

(1) contact Greg Grauberger, Director of Academic Services at DCB, for information to start the application and admission processes: Greg.Grauberger@du.edu ; 303.871.3421
(2) complete the GMAT (scoring 600 or higher) or the GRE (scoring 1200 or higher)
(3) complete the application for the general MBA (available online)
(4) contact DCB’s office of Graduate Recruitment and Admission to set up an admission interview; Devon.Cisneros@du.edu ; 303.871.3416.

TWC students must complete their BBA program and graduate with us. There can be no double counting of courses, since all MBA courses are at the 4000 level and must be completed in DCB’s program.

If a TWC student begins the MBA program in the next available start term following her graduation, she can complete the degree with 56 graduate credit hours. Any applicant, from any school, starting later than that must complete 80 credit hours of graduate work for the MBA.

The Morgridge College of Education offers a Teacher Education/Master's Completion Program. TWC graduates (who did not participate in the Dual Degree program) can take their first 40 credits as part of the Teacher Education Program (TEP), followed by six credits in curriculum leadership and six credits in one area of concentration, or strand, in order to develop expertise in a specific area that will make them leaders in the schools in which they work. TEP is an intensive program designed for individuals who already hold a bachelor's degree. More>>

TWC graduates may also qualify for the The Boettcher Teachers Program. The Morgridge College of Education partners with the Boettcher Foundation, the Public Education and Business Coalition, Mapleton Public Schools, and Adams 12 Five Star Schools to offer you an opportunity to obtain an alternative teaching license and a master's degree in Curriculum and Instruction - paid for by a full scholarship. More>>