Academic Honors
President’s Honor Roll Certificate (Full-Time Award)
The President’s Honor Roll Certificate (Full-Time Award) is awarded in recognition of scholastic honors to degree-seeking undergraduate students who maintain a 4.0 GPA, complete 12 or more hours, excluding satisfactory/unsatisfactory course work, and did not earn any I
, U
, N
, NC
or WF
grades during a given term.
President’s Honor Roll Certificate (Part-Time Award)
The President’s Honor Roll Certificate (Part-Time Award) is awarded in recognition of scholastic honors to degree-seeking undergraduate students who maintain a 4.0 GPA in two consecutive part-time terms. The student must complete at least 15 hours, with no more than 11 in each consecutive term, excluding satisfactory/unsatisfactory course work, and not earn any I
, U
, N
, NC
or WF
grades during a term. Hours utilized in the awarding of a President’s Honor Roll Certificate may not be utilized in the determination of a subsequent certificate.
Dean’s List
The Dean’s List is compiled in recognition of scholastic honors to degree-seeking undergraduate students who earn a minimum 3.4 GPA, complete a minimum of 12 credit hours, earn no grade less than C
(2.0) and no I
, U
, N
, NC
or WF
grades during a term.
Baccalaureate Honors and Diplomas
The University shall confer baccalaureate honors recognition on those students who have completed a minimum of 48 credit hours at UCF and who:
- Attain an overall grade point average (this includes transfer credit) that is in the upper 10 percent of the range established by all students graduating in the same college/school during the previous two years;
- Attain at least a 3.20 overall grade point average; and
- Honors awarded will be:
- Summa Cum Laude
- for those students in the upper 2.5 percent;
- Magna Cum Laude
- for those students in the upper five percent, but not in the upper 2.5 percent;
- Cum Laude
- for those students in the upper 10 percent, but not in the upper five percent.
Records for the term of graduation are incomplete at the time the Commencement Program is printed. Identification of these students at graduation therefore is presumptive of honors and not conclusive, since final term grades may result in changes in relative rankings.
Consult the Academic Honors list at http://www.iroffice.ucf.edu/character/honorscutpoints.html for the most uptodate UCF Honors minimum GPA requirements.
Diplomas are mailed 6 to 10 weeks after Commencement to the address indicated in the online Intent to Graduate.
Honors in the Major
Please see Honors in the Major
in the The Burnett Honors College portion of this Undergraduate Catalog.