Academic Standards & Policies
Policy on Degree Requirements
& the Awarding of Degrees
It is the responsibility of each student to satisfy degree requirements. Students are expected to acquaint themselves with the various policies and procedures
published in the Catalog and current Bulletins and to plan their courses of study accordingly. Students normally must meet the graduation and course
requirements of the Catalog under which they first entered Dharma Realm
Buddhist University; however, they have the option of qualifying under the
Catalog in effect at the time they advance to candidacy, provided they have
continuously enrolled. If the student’s enrollment is broken without petition
or approval by a period of more than one semester (including the summer
session), he or she will be required to meet the requirements of the Catalog
under which he or she re-enters the University, or a subsequent Catalog.
Residency is defined throughout this Catalog as living on campus at the City
of Ten Thousand Buddhas at all times, or obtaining approval by petition
from the Admissions Office and the Registrar to do otherwise.
Students may become degree candidates when they begin the academic year
during which it will be possible to complete all requirements for graduation.
Formal application for graduation must be made through the Registrar’s Office.
A student, having completed all requirements, is granted a degree upon
approval by the dean of the program in which the degree is being awarded,
in consultation with the Registrar’s Office, and, in the case of graduate students,
in consultation with the student’s degree committee members.
Degrees are conferred only upon those students who have completed all requirements.
The date on the diploma will be the last day of the semester in
which the student completed the requirements for the degree. |
