Academic Probation

Academic Warning and Academic Probation

 

Students Enrolled in Undergraduate Program

  1. A student receives a first academic warning if their CGPA drops below 2.0 by the end of any semester except for the first semester at AAU. Having received the first warning, students are not allowed to register for more than 12 credit hours in the following semester, including any courses they need to retake.
  2. Students failing to raise their CGPA to at least 2.0 in the following semester, will be given a second warning and will not be allowed to register for more than 9 credit hours, including any courses they need to retake.
  3. Students failing to raise their CGPA to at least 2.0 in the following semester, will be given a THIRD warning and will not be allowed to register for more than 9 credit hours, including any courses they need to retake.
  4. Unable to raise their CGPA to at least 2.0, the students become liable to one of the following actions:
    • Transfer the student to another major within the same college;
    • Transfer the student to another college.
  5. Students are given two semesters to raise their CGPA after changing the major or college. Should they fail to do so, they will be dismissed from the university.
  6. In case of successfully completing at least 70% of the credit hours required for graduation according to the approved study plan for the program, then students will not be dismissed from the university, but will be permitted to continue in the same major until they reach the maximum study duration as stipulated in the AAU regulations.
  7. The summer semesters are not considered for an academic warning period.

 

Postgraduate program

  1. A student receives a first academic warning if their CGPA drops below 3.0 by the end of any semester except for the first semester at AAU. Having received the first warning, students are not allowed to register for more than 9 credit hours in the following semester, including any courses they need to retake.
  2. Students failing to raise their CGPA to at least 3.0 in the following semester, will be given a second warning and will not be allowed to register for more than 6 credit hours, including any courses they need to retake.
  3. Students failing to raise their CGPA to at least 3.0 after the second warning, will be dismissed from the University.
  4. The summer semester does not count for an academic warning period.
  5. In the event that the student is accepted with a conditional admission to one of the graduate programs and fails to fulfil the requirement, the student shall be considered academically dismissed from the program by the end of the first semester, and shall not be entitled to re-enroll in the same program until at least one semester has passed. Moreover, in the event that the student re-enrolls in the same program from which he/she was dismissed, it is forbidden to equate any course he previously studied in the same program from which he was dismissed. However, In the event that the student wishes to enroll in another graduate studies program, it is permissible to enroll directly and the courses he studied in the program from which he was dismissed can be equivalent if these courses are within the study plan of the new program and he obtained a result of B or higher.

 

Students Enrolled in Postgraduate Diploma in Education Program

  1. Students receive a first academic warning if their CGPA drops below 2.0 by the end of any semester except for the first semester at AAU.
  2. The summer semesters are not considered for an academic warning period.

 

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