Maintaining contact with your advisor is critical to the successful and timely completion of your degree requirements. Regular advising is required for undergraduate students. How often advising is required varies by college; contact your college head advising office for further information.
Use the OSU Academic Catalog to research program requirements and course descriptions.
Degree requirements are identified in the Academic Regulations.
MyDegrees is an online degree checklist and academic advising tool designed to assist students and advisors in monitoring degree progress.
Plan which courses to take and when to support degree progress
Access to MyDegrees: Log into Beaver Hub, click on Academics tab, under Academic Resources, click "MyDegrees", then click the Submit MyDegrees box.
View the MyDegrees video tutorials
Learn about undergraduate standalone certificates (Academic Regulation 32). Students will see their certificates reflected on their academic transcripts but they do not receive a diploma for the certificate.
During the term in which you have been identified as a graduation candidate, your record will be evaluated several times for graduation requirements. Any deficiencies will be recorded as a graduation hold on your student record.
Former OSU students who contact the Office of the Registrar asking for transcripts and diplomas sometimes discover they did not, in fact, graduate. Reasons for this may include:
| Academic Distinction | OSU GPA Range | Graduation Honor Cord Color |
|---|---|---|
| Cum Laude | 3.50-3.69 | Orange |
| Magna Cum Laude | 3.70-3.84 | Gold |
| Summa Cum Laude | 3.85-4.00 | White |
Students who meet the criteria for Latin Honors can purchase commencement honor cords through the OSU Beaver Store.
Use this video to get started with the Planner and learn how to:
Create a plan
Add courses and requirements
View course details
Use the Degree Check with the plan
Print your plan
When viewing the video you can pause and go back as needed. The transcript of the captions is available in the description of the video.
The MyDegrees Planner, also known as the Student Educational Planner, allows you to:
The Planner provides a great feature under the Requirements Section.
Course offerings differ by program but past course schedules are available and when the course was offered in previous years is one indicator of which term it may be offered in the future. For example, courses that have routinely been offered in winter term in past years have a good chance of being offered in winter terms again. Remember to look at the class plans by campus.
In MyDegrees, the @ symbol is a wildcard. For example, ANS @ means any courses with the ANS subject code, and ANS 2@ is any 200-level course with the ANS subject code.
Some plans are set up to begin in a fall term. If there is not an appropriate template for the term you will start, you can select your start term as the fall prior to your start and add requirements starting with the term you will begin taking courses.
This can be for a couple of reasons. If the courses are in a term that has passed or has started, the checklist will only use courses you completed or are currently registered. If you still plan to take those courses, you will need to place them in a future term in the plan.
Another reason courses may not show in your checklist is that you used a Bacc Core attribute for the requirement but did not use the Pointer feature. The checklist only picks up Bacc Core when a specific Bacc Core course is added or if you use the Pointer field in the Choice option. See FAQ What if I am not sure which Baccalaureate Core Course I want to take? above for directions.
If you have additional questions about the Planner, please email [email protected].