{"id":36312,"date":"2011-09-09T13:55:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T17:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/?page_id=36312"},"modified":"2026-05-08T11:52:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:52:45","slug":"academic-progress-and-graduation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/policies\/academic-progress-and-graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Progress and Graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To obtain a bachelor\u2019s degree, most students must have completed a minimum of 128 units and 32 courses. As a guide for completing the four-year undergraduate program, students should keep in mind that sophomore status usually is attained by satisfactorily completing 32 units of coursework; junior status, 64 units; senior status, 96 units. The number may vary depending on the college of enrollment.<\/p>\n<p>The individual schools and colleges of the University have specific academic requirements and standards for determining satisfactory completion of a program of study (e.g., grades, majors, general education).<\/p>\n<p>To graduate, students must apply to their school or college by the deadline stipulated by the school or college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To obtain a bachelor\u2019s degree, most students must have completed a minimum of 128 units and 32 courses. As a guide for completing the four-year undergraduate program, students should keep in mind that sophomore status usually is attained by satisfactorily completing 32 units of coursework; junior status, 64 units; senior status, 96 units. The number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1393,"featured_media":0,"parent":36244,"menu_order":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36312"}],"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\/1393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36312"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99788,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36312\/revisions\/99788"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}