General Graduation Requirements
| Students must meet the following requirements as well as those listed under their specific major (program): |
- Official Major. The student must be officially enrolled in the major (program) they are completing. The student who has not done so must complete a Declare/Change a Major Form (42kb)
and submit it to the Records Office at main campus or the Enrollment Services Office at all other CNM campuses. - Choose a Graduation catalog. Current students may choose to complete their program requirements as defined in the catalog in effect when they earned their first credit(s) at CNM or a later catalog as long as the catalog is no more than five years old.
Note: Course pre- and corequisites must be met for each course at the time of registration, regardless of the catalog under which a student will graduate. - Required coursework - All program requirements must be completed, including all courses listed in the graduation catalog.
Note: Courses numbered below 1000 cannot be used to meet program graduation requirements.
| Approved transfer, nontraditional, exam credit and/or waivers or substitutions used to meet program requirements must be on file in the CNM Records Office at least two weeks prior to submitting their Graduation Application Packet. |
| Note: A student may be required to make up deficient credit resulting from course substitution or transfer. A course waiver does not require the student to make up the credits of a waived course. Because all CNM graduates in degree programs must complete a minimum of 60 credit hours and 90 percent of the credits are required in their certificate program, there is a limit on the number of course waivers that can be granted. (Example: If a program requires 64 credits, a maximum of 4 credits may be waived. If a program requires 68 credits, a maximum of 8 credits may be waived.) All credits used for graduation must be displayed on the student’s CNM transcript. |
| All career and technical courses** used to meet program requirements must have a grade of C or better and all arts and sciences courses*, a minimum grade of D. |
| Career and technical courses more than ten years old must be officially validated by the instructional school in which the course was offered. |
- Residency Requirements – At least one-quarter of the required program coursework and credit hours for a certificate and 12 credit hours of the required program coursework for a degree must be completed at CNM.
Note: Credit based on challenge exams and courses graded AU do not apply toward the graduation residence requirements. - GPA requirement. A cumulative GPA of 2.0 or better in the program is required (unless otherwise stated in the program description).
- All debts to CNM must be paid in full before graduation.
| *arts & sciences courses are defined as Courses numbered 1001 and above with the following subject codes: |
| ANTH, ARBC, ARTH, ARTS, ASTR, BIO, CHEM, COMM, CST, ECON, ENG, FREN, GEOG, GER, GNHN, HIST, HUM, JOUR, MATH, MUS, NUTR, PHIL, PHYS, PORT, PSCI, PSY, RLGN, SOC, SPAN, THEA, and AFAS, GNED, MSL and NAVS courses. |
| **A career and technical course is any course not listed above which is offered by the Applied Technologies, Health Wellness & Public Safety, and Business & Information Technology divisions. |
