{"id":101391,"date":"2026-04-29T10:53:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/?page_id=101391"},"modified":"2026-05-21T12:02:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T16:02:37","slug":"units-not-counted","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/questrom\/policies\/units-not-counted\/","title":{"rendered":"Units Not Counted Toward the Degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Questrom School of Business Policy<\/h2>\n<p>Some Boston University courses that appear on students\u2019 transcripts do not count toward the 132 units of academic coursework that are required for completion of the BSBA in the Questrom School of Business, as detailed below.<\/p>\n<p>Physical education and military science courses\u2014regardless of the school, college, or program in which they are offered\u2014are not applicable for degree units. Such courses may, however, be carried in excess of the normal four courses per term. Grades for military science courses are not included in a student\u2019s Questrom grade point average but do appear on a student\u2019s transcript. Physical education courses are graded on a Pass\/Fail basis, with those grades also appearing on the student\u2019s transcript if taken prior to fall 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Courses offered by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/student-life\/undergraduate-students\/ospl\/\">CAS Student Programs &amp; Leadership office<\/a> (e.g., CAS FY 101, 102, 103, SY 101) are graded on a Pass\/Fail basis, and that grade appears on a student\u2019s transcript. However, these courses are not applicable for degree units.<\/p>\n<p>The courses QST SM 395, SM 398, and SM 399 are graded on a Pass\/Fail basis. Those grades appear on a student\u2019s transcript but are not applicable for degree units.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questrom School of Business Policy Some Boston University courses that appear on students\u2019 transcripts do not count toward the 132 units of academic coursework that are required for completion of the BSBA in the Questrom School of Business, as detailed below. Physical education and military science courses\u2014regardless of the school, college, or program in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1859,"featured_media":0,"parent":2742,"menu_order":24,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1859"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101391"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101710,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101391\/revisions\/101710"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}