Purpose
Columbia College is committed to fairness and transparency in assessment of students' work and grading practices. This policy is intended to provide information on the College’s system for assigning various grades for undergraduate work, computing grade point averages (GPAs), appealing grades, determining incomplete coursework, auditing courses, repeating courses and designating classifications.
Scope
This policy applies to all undergraduate College students.
Policy
Grades and notations
- A: Excellent
- B: Superior
- C: Satisfactory
- D: Inferior
- F: Failing
- I: Incomplete: Unfinished work to be completed without further class attendance.
- N: Audit: Did not complete course.
- S/U: Satisfactory/unsatisfactory: Recorded when the pass/fail option is chosen
- U: Unsatisfactory. An option that can be used as a grade for MATH 104, MATH 106, and ENGL 107.
- W: Withdraw*
- WE: Excused from the course for extraordinary circumstances*
- Y: Audit: completed course. No official credit recorded on transcript
* Please see the Withdrawal Policy for more information.