3. Coterminal Academic Requirements

• 3.1. Coterminal Advising, Program Proposal, and Time Limit

  By the end of their first graduate quarter, coterm students must be assigned a master's advisor and submit a program proposal for a master's degree. All master’s degree requirements must be completed within three years, and coterm students must apply for each degree conferral separately, ensuring the master's degree is conferred simultaneously with or after the bachelor's degree.

• 3.2. Coterminal Academic Progress

  Coterminal students at Stanford simultaneously hold undergraduate and graduate status for one or more quarters and must carefully assign courses and units to each career while staying within unit limits based on their tuition group. Based on the tuition group (see Coterminal Tuition), they are held to distinct GPA and unit requirements for satisfactory academic progress, with escalating consequences for falling below standards, including academic notice, probation, suspension, and possible reinstatement conditions overseen by university committees and advisors. 

• 3.3. Coterminal Residency Requirement

  Each type of degree offered at Stanford (for example, Bachelor of Arts, Master of Science) has a requirement, called residency for graduate degrees, based on the minimum number of academic units required for the degree. Students pursuing coterminal bachelor’s and master’s degrees are expected to meet the minimum requirements for each of the degrees.

• 3.4. Coterminal Program Changes

  Coterm students may change, withdraw from, or reinstate a master’s program only through approved processes, and may pursue only one active coterminal master’s program until the bachelor’s degree is conferred.