Honor Roll and Graduation Honors
The honor roll is compiled at each official grading period and includes all full-time undergraduate students earning a grade point average of 3.50 or above in academic courses.
- Students who take an incomplete grade will not be considered for the honor roll for that term.
- Students who earn a 3.50-3.99 GPA will be named to the Academic Honor Roll.
- Students who earn a 4.00 GPA will be named to the President’s Honor Roll.
Graduation honors are determined by a student’s Northwest GPA, and if there are transfer credits, the cumulative GPA (all college work attempted) must also meet the GPA requirements. Only first degrees are eligible for honors and class rank.
- Graduating seniors who have grade point averages (Northwest and cumulative) between 3.50 and 3.74 inclusive for their work in their first academic degree will be graduated “Cum Laude.”
- Graduating seniors who have grade point averages (Northwest and cumulative) between 3.75 and 3.94 inclusive will be graduated “Magna Cum Laude.”
- Graduating seniors who have grade point averages (Northwest and cumulative) between 3.95 and 4.00 inclusive will be graduated “Summa Cum Laude.”
Honors designation for the commencement program will be determined on the grade point averages based on grades recorded on the academic transcript by the Registrar four weeks prior to the spring and fall commencement exercises.