Normally, candidates for graduate degrees are expected to earn a grade of B or better in all coursework.
Each student's program is monitored by the entire faculty, and his or her work is evaluated at the end of each term. Only those students whose work meets approval by the faculty may proceed into the second or third year of the program.
Official notification of academic probation, academic warning, academic dismissal, or artistic dismissal (for which there is no appeal) is handled by the Mason Gross School of the Arts Scholastic Standing Committee. The committee acts on recommendations submitted by the departmental Scholastic Standing Committee.
Any student may be required to terminate his or her graduate studies and withdraw from Mason Gross School of the Arts if he or she fails to maintain satisfactory academic or professional standards in any phase of the graduate program. There is no appeal from a failure to maintain professional standards, which is regarded as artistic dismissal.
