Academic Dismissal

Graduate Students

A student whose cumulative QPR is below 2.7 after completion of 15 credit hours will be dismissed from the Graduate School.  Any student who has been dismissed may submit an appeal to the Associate Provost for Graduate Studies.  If the appeal is granted, written conditions for the student must accompany the permission to continue in the Graduate School.  These would be included in the student's academic record.

Undergraduate Students

Students are dismissed from the university (1) upon qualification for a third probation, (2) upon qualification for any subsequent probation after readmission from an academic dismissal, or (3) when the student's grade point average for any individual semester is less than 1.0 and the student's cumulative grade point average does not indicate satisfactory progress as described in the satisfactory progress section.  If the cumulative grade point average indicates satisfactory progress as described in the satisfactory progress section, an academic warning is issued instead of an academic dismissal.

First-semester freshmen earning a grade point average of less than 1.0 for the first semester are not dismissed, but are automatically placed on academic probation.

Academic dismissals are recorded on the student's transcript.

Notification of academic dismissal is made by the Registrar via certified letter.  This letter specifies the time span and criteria for appeal.

Upon written submission by the student, an appeal will be heard by the Academic Standing and Readmissions Committee (ASRC).  If the appeal has merit and is granted, the student will be so notified by the chair of the committee.  The committee may require special arrangements or conditions to allow the student to continue.  Satisfaction of such conditions is an obligation of the student.

If there is no appeal or if an appeal is denied, the student will be removed from any courses for which he or she is registered that have not yet begun.  The student may continue in any intersession or summer course that began before the date of the dismissal, but may not begin any courses after the dismissal is effective. 

Notations of readmission by successful appeal and/or denial of appeal will appear on the student's transcript.

Application for readmission of students who have been dismissed and who either did not appeal or whose appeal was denied normally will be considered only after the lapse of one semester and only when students provide evidence that indicates probable success if readmitted.  Requests for readmission should be submitted in writing to the chair of the ASRC at least three weeks before the opening of the semester and should include evidence supporting the student's belief that he or she will succeed if readmitted.  If the student has attended another college or university in the interim, an official academic transcript is required from that institution.  Because the student is not matriculated at UNH during this period, no coordinated courses will be accepted. 

Readmission is not automatic.  The committee reviews each application and makes a decision on acceptance, rejection, or conditional acceptance of students.  A student who is readmitted may be prohibited from continuing with the academic program in which he or she was enrolled at the time of dismissal as a condition of readmission.

Upon successful readmission, a student may enroll in the normal manner as a continuing student and does not need to submit a new application unless he or she does not return to UNH in the semester immediately following the date of readmission.  Students who decide not to return until a later date, he or she must submit a new application and pay another application fee to the Undergraduate Admissions Office (for full-time students) or to University College (for part-time students).