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45 Hours to Undergraduate Major Policy/Reverse Articulation Requirement
(House Bill 3025) - Applies only to undergraduate students who enter the university in Fall 2012 and thereafter. Under House Bill 3025, each student enrolled in an a bachelor’s degree program at Texas A&M University-Victoria shall file a degree plan no later than the end of the second regular semester immediately following the semester in which the student earned a cumulative total of 45 or more semester credit hours for coursework successfully completed by the student, including transfer courses, international baccalaureate courses, dual credit courses, and any other course for which the institution the student attends has awarded the student college course credit, including course credit awarded by examination.
A student transferring to Texas A&M University-Victoria who begins the student’s first semester with 45 or more semester credit hours of course credit for courses shall file a degree plan no later than the end of the student’s second regular semester (fall or spring term). A student whose first term is summer will have through the end of his/her fall term to file the degree plan.
Students file their degree plan by reviewing and acknowledging their Degree Progress Report (DPR) through the student self-service portal. At each semester registration, students subject to this requirement must confirm that:
- They have filed a degree plan; and
- The courses for which they are registering are consistent with the degree plan.
If a student does not timely file a degree plan as required, the university will notify the student of the legal obligation under House Bill 3025. The student must then consult with an academic advisor during the semester in which the notice is received. Official transcripts will be held until the degree plan is filed.
Reverse Articulation Requirement
Legislation passed as part of House Bill 3025 also establishes a reverse articulation program for the awarding of an Associate degree. Students who transferred from, or previously attended, a lower-division institution of higher education, earned at least 30 semester credit hours for coursework at the lower-division institution, and have completed 66 semester credit hours while enrolled at a general academic institution, will be contacted by their general academic institution to provide permission to send the lower-division institution the student’s transcript. The lower-division institution will evaluate the transcript to see if the student is eligible to receive an Associate degree.
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