Students in the undergraduate division are those who are working on an
Associate or Bachelor's degree. An Associate degree can be obtained by
completing 62 semester hours of study with at least a C- average. A Bachelor's
degree can be obtained by completing 124 semester hours of study and maintaining
at least a C- average.
Individuals seeking admission into a Master's degree program must have a
total grade point average of 2.7 on a 4.0 system, or B- average, for their
Bachelor's degree. Individuals with a G.P.A. below a 2.7 may be admitted with a
probationary status. Students can claim one major or a double major; students
are not required to claim a minor but most students do.
To earn a Master's degree, a student must complete 32 semester hours of
course work plus a Thesis or 6 additional hours of course work; the Thesis is
optional. Any student wishing to complete the Master's Thesis will be required
to take the Thesis Preparation 657 course in the department of their
concentration.
Individuals seeking admission on the Doctoral level must have completed
their Master degree with a 3.0 G.P.A. or B average. The Doctor of Philosophy
degree is 45 semester hours of course work and a Dissertation of 12 semester
hours of credit; the Dissertation is required of all Doctoral Candidates. All
Doctoral Candidates must successfully follow the guidelines for completing the
Dissertation process.
Individuals entering the Ministerial Doctoral program fulfill varying
guidelines. Please see an explanation listed in the Religion Department of this
catalog.
Graduate students may qualify to be granted a Teaching Assistantship.
Teaching Assistants earn credit toward their own degree by teaching St. John's
University curriculum.
Honorary Degrees are granted to those individuals who have made an
outstanding contribution during their lifetime to a profession, area of
knowledge or to humanity itself. Most Honorary Degree recipients have been in
their 60s, 70s or 80s.
A student must have a bona fide Bachelor's degree before being permitted to
study for a Master's degree; a student must have a bona fide Master's degree or
its equivalency to be eligible to enroll in a Doctoral program.
To obtain a Bachelor's degree from St. John's University, a student must
complete at least 124 semester hours of study.
To obtain a Master's degree, a student must complete 38 semester hours of
study beyond the Bachelor's degree; the Master's thesis is optional. A student
can complete 6 semester hours of course work instead of completing the Thesis.
To obtain the Doctoral degree, a student must complete 45 semester hours of
course work beyond the Master's degree and must complete a Doctoral
Dissertation which is 12 semester hours of credit. For the Master's and
Doctoral degrees, all courses must be taken from the graduate and postgraduate
level of curriculum.
The thesis for the Master's degree must be a minimum of 25,000 words; the
Doctoral Dissertation must be a minimum of 50,000 words. Graduate students
follow specific procedures in order to complete these projects. A Thesis or
Dissertation Committee consists of three faculty Instructors. Charles
Marchand, Ph.D. currently coordinates all Thesis and Dissertation Committees.
All Theses and Dissertations are to be hard bound. The original is kept
permanently at the University; the copy is returned to the student once all
requirements have been met. Degrees will be granted upon receipt of both hard
bound copies. If a student's final draft has been accepted by the Committee, but
the hard bound copies have not been received, the student will be allowed to
graduate; the transcript and diploma will be mailed to the graduate as soon as
the hard bound copies are received.
Each credit listed in the curriculum catalog represents 1 semester hour of
credit. The standard policy among most colleges is that one semester hour of
credit equals to approximately 20 clock hours of study, research and writing.
Based on each student's ability, this can vary. However, a 3 semester hour
course should take the average student approximately 60 hours to complete all
requirements for that course.
St. John's University requires that a minimum of 12 semester hours are
completed from St. John's University's curriculum before a degree can be
granted. Graduate students, who complete all course requirements but have not
completed the Thesis or Dissertation before transferring to St. John's
University, will complete a minimum of twelve semester hours of course work
plus the Dissertation, which is also 12 semester hours of credit.
The Doctoral Candidate has two years in which to complete their Dissertation
once all course work is completed and the initial Dissertation proposal is
approved by the Dissertation Committee Advisor. Dissertation procedures and
materials will be provided to the graduate student in the 857 course provided in
each department. After completing all course work the graduate student will
have the benefit of a Dissertation Committee and Advisor who will assist the
graduate student by guiding the Dissertation process. Students must wait for
the Advisor's approval before beginning any portion of the Dissertation. Each
Doctoral Candidate is to carefully follow all Dissertation guide lines.
Before the Candidate can be assigned to the Advisor all Dissertation tuition
must be received at the University. Both hard bound copies are sent to the
University for final approval by the Dissertation Committee. After the
Dissertation Committee signs both, the original remains permanently at the
University and the copy is returned to the Candidate.
During the student's work on the Dissertation, it is the student's
responsibility to keep the Dissertation Advisor informed of their progress at
each step in the process. It is the student's responsibility to follow all
University guide lines when completing the Dissertation.
All lessons are mailed to the Instructor who is assigned to a particular
course. Students are required to use a self addressed stamped envelope to send
their lessons to their Instructor so their graded lessons can be returned.
Assignments going to Instructors or correspondence coming to the University
with postage due cannot be accepted, so be sure to have your assignments and
return envelope weighed to insure proper postage.
Your textbooks and assignment materials are mailed as soon as possible
after we have received payment for the book and postage. Unless a particular
book is out of stock, textbooks are usually mailed within a week or ten days of
receiving a textbook order. Book orders usually take 5 working days for
delivery. Books are shipped UPS unless a student has a post office box as part
of their mailing address, in which case, the United States Postal system is
used. All books are insured to guarantee their arrival.
There is a $4.00 handling and mailing fee for each textbook that is mailed.
This fee also includes the cost for the assignment materials. All orders must be
pre-paid. Book orders for foreign students will be sent air mail unless a
student requests them to be sent by surface mail. Cost of shipping to foreign
countries will vary.