Professional Program Policies

To enter the senior year, minimum requirements are 96 credits and a 2.7 cumulative grade point average. Once students begin the professional portion (senior year) of the program, they must meet all the academic standards and requirements of the MSOT program including:

1: GPA: a cumulative GPA of 3.0 during each semester of the professional years (MSOT-1 and MSOT-2).

The MSOT professional GPA will be calculated separately from the preprofessional GPA/GPI. Students whose GPA falls below 3.0 have one semester to bring up their GPA. Thereafter if a GPA of 3.0 is still not achieved, students may be terminated from the professional program. If it would be statistically impossible for the student to achieve a 3.0 GPA the following semester, the program may terminate the student immediately.

Students will not be scheduled for Level II Fieldwork while they remain on academic probation. If a student repeats a course, both grades (non-passing and repeat) will be counted in calculating the GPA. The highest grade, however, will be considered as the final grade received in the course. Cumulative GPA will include courses taken at Boston University only.

2: A minimum grade of C: In all required courses in the professional program.

3: Demonstration of appropriate professional behaviors as described in the Occupational Therapy Student Manual.

4: Repeating courses: Students may not repeat more than two courses in the professional program or they will be terminated from the program. No course may be repeated more than once.