Barriers to Graduation
We have resources and information available to help you address common problems students face when graduating from Weber State University. Working with your advisor is often the most helpful way to resolve these issues, as well as ensuring you meet graduation application deadlines.
Graduation Roadblocks
- Incomplete Grades
If you have any Incomplete (I) grades, you will not be able to graduate and receive your diploma. Even if your Incomplete grade is not a part of the degree you could potentially graduate for, you will not be able to graduate. An example of this would be having an Incomplete grade in a Geography class and having completed and passed all the required courses to earn an associates degree in computer science: the Incomplete Geography class grade will not allow you to earn the associates degree.
Addressing Incomplete Grades
Meet with your advisor first. They may recommend reaching out to specific academic departments and will assist you with this process. - Catalog Years
Students have 3 years to complete associate's degrees and 6 years to complete bachelor’s degrees. If you take longer than these time allotments, you will be moved to a new catalog year. The catalog year is selected by the department and could impact your ability to graduate, as required coursework may change. Talk to your advisor if this impacts you.
Graduate degree completion deadlines vary by department. Talk to your advisor for more information on your specific program.
- An Inactivated Graduation Application
Your grad app can be inactivated for many reasons including incomplete program requirements, incomplete (I) grades or a financial hold. If you receive an email from the Graduation Office saying that your grad app was inactivated, reply to the email if you would like details or if you would like your grad app moved to another semester.
- Post-Bachelor Degree Credit Requirements
Students who have been awarded a bachelor's degree will need to complete the following amounts of new residency credits at Weber State before they can graduate with additional degrees:
- Bachelor's degree: 30 new credits
- Associate's degree: 15 new credits
- Certificate: 6 new credits
The new credits must be completed after the conferral of the first degree. If you haven’t been awarded your first bachelor’s degree, meet with your advisor to discuss how many credits will be needed to complete the other degrees you’re interested in earning.
In most cases, it’s better to delay the award of your first bachelor’s degree until you have met the degree requirements for all in-progress credentials and can graduate with them in the same semester. Delaying the award of your first bachelor’s is also the best way to preserve your eligibility for federal financial aid like the Pell Grant.
- Deadlines
You must meet the required deadlines.
Requirement Completion Deadlines
You have 45 calendar days from the day grades are due for a given semester to resolve any issues related to your ability to graduate. If the 45th day lands on a weekend, you have until Monday. See information about this and other deadlines for more information.Graduation Application Deadlines
You must submit your graduation application on time in order to receive your degree and/or walk at graduation. If you apply past the deadline you will automatically be placed in the next semester’s graduation. See information about this and other deadlines for more information. - Declare Your Major
Use the Change My Major app in your eWeber portal to make sure you have declared the correct major. The app also ensures the correct department is able to communicate about any graduation requirements you haven’t met yet.