An Honor Roll of undergraduate students who carried at least 12 credit hours with a GPA of 3.0 or higher, and 9 credit hours with a 3.5 or higher GPA for graduate students, is released at the end of each quadmester. At least half of those credit hours must have been assigned letter grades. Both undergraduate and graduate students who earn a GPA of 3.75 or better while carrying at least 12 (9 for graduate) hours will be named to the Dean’s List.

University of Northern Virginia Scholar : Any student having demonstrated superior scholastic competence may be named a “ University of Northern Virginia Scholar ” upon the recommendation of the advisor and the approval of the Vice President of Academic Affairs. The student must have completed 65 or more credit hours at UNVA and achieved a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or better at the university. A heavier than normal course load and employment hours will be taken into consideration.

In recognition of scholarly competence, the University of Northern Virginia Scholar may:

• register for courses without the required prerequisites when the student, the advisor, and the instructor agree that sufficient achievement is likely to be made;
• obtain a passing grade a higher course within a sequence, resulting in the waiving of the lower course degree requirement (with departmental approval) where the lower course is a prerequisite for the higher course (no credit shall be given for the waived lower course);
• request a grade of S (satisfactory) or U (unsatisfactory) in such a course, rather than the usual letter grade (this request must be received by the instructor in writing by the last week of the quadmester; the grades of S and U shall not be counted in the GPA); register for graduate courses on the same basis as outlined above.