General Information
Graduation Requirements
General Education
Transfer Credit
Graduation Application
Graduation Survey
Commencement Exercises
Assistant Registrar - Graduation: Chrissy Ray
Greenwood Student Center 223
(435) 283-7142
chrissy.ray@snow.edu
Students are encouraged to track their progress towards graduation via Degree Works. A student can access Degree Works through their MySnow Student Portal (my.snow.edu) or at www.snow.edu/degreeworks.
Snow College students may earn only one academic degree in most cases. Students may not receive two general associate degrees (i.e. Associate of Science (AS) or Associate of Arts (AA)). This means students are only able to declare and earn one Meta-Major or Major for a general associate degree.
In specific circumstances, students may receive two separate degrees from Snow College. They are as follows:
Candidates for graduation will be held to the requirements of the catalog under which they were admitted. Students have a maximum of
When students take longer than the given years to complete, they must have attended Snow College during the Catalog Year to use those degree requirements towards graduation.
Programs that are no longer being offered may not be pursued by students who were not admitted or formally matriculated in that program during the accepted period of time. Students may not combine portions of different catalogs to fulfill graduation requirements. Once a catalog is selected, students must abide by all the graduation requirements specified within that catalog.
All Catalog Year change requests must be initiated by the student. Students should be directed to submit the online Kuali form. Without this documentation, the catalog year will not be adjusted.
Each degree or program at Snow College will have its unique set of requirements. Please see the Degrees and Programs section of the catalog to determine the specific requirements for your degree.
For complete General Education information, visit the GE catalog page. Courses that meet General Education requirements will include the following GE codes in the course descriptions found here.
General education courses are identified with the following abbreviations:
The GE Committee has approved the following substitutions for the designated GE areas:
Fine Arts (FA):
Life Science (LS):
Physical Science (PS) and Lab (LB):
Transfer credit from other regionally accredited institutions may be used to satisfy general education requirements at Snow College. Students must provide the Transfer Articulation Specialist with official transcripts from all colleges and universities which they have attended. Snow College accepts transfer credit based on the following criteria:
Students may transfer credits back to Snow College after they have transferred to another institution to complete Snow College's graduation requirements. The student must send an official transcript to Snow College with the credit the student wants applied to his or her graduation audit. After the transcript has been sent, please contact the graduation office at the number above.
Any USHE (Utah System of Higher Education) institution shall consider its General Education requirements completed by transfer students who have completed the General Education requirements of any other USHE institution. Upon request by transferring students, a sending institution shall provide certification when students have fully completed its General Education requirements. Contact the Registrar's office to request certification.
All students seeking a degree are required to submit a graduation application. There is no cost to apply. The graduation application is different than registering to walk in commencement exercises. It is recommended that students apply based on the following dates.
Ideally, students should apply after completion of approximately 30 credits, but students are strongly encouraged to apply prior to their final semester of classes. Doing so will help ensure that the necessary courses and number of credits can be taken to fulfill degree requirements. Students can apply via the MySnow Student Portal, the Snow College Registrar's webpage, or by submitting a completed graduation application form to the Graduation/Registrar's Office in the Greenwood Student Center.
In order to evaluate the quality of the education students receive at Snow College, each graduate is asked to take an assessment and complete a survey before graduation. The survey is an assessment of students' general opinions about the college. The results of the assessment and survey are confidential. They do not appear on transcripts and have no bearing on graduation status. The results from all students are combined to provide faculty, administration, and the Utah Board of Regents information about the knowledge and opinions of Snow College students.
Students who have completed all graduation requirements and have earned a cumulative grade point average at Snow College as follows will graduate with honors. Only courses numbered 1000 or above are counted in the qualifying gpa.
Commencement is a celebration of our students' success. All candidates for graduation are invited to participate. During this ceremony, students will be recognized for reaching their goals and joining the ranks of the select number of people worldwide who have a post-secondary degree.
Commencement occurs at the end of Spring Semester and includes all students who have graduated the preceding Fall Semester and those who will graduate in the current Spring Semester, or after the current academic year’s Summer Semester. The College holds two commencement ceremonies, one on the Ephraim campus and one on the Richfield campus. The college may also have a separate convocation for the four-year degree recipients. Dates for the ceremony are determined by the established calendaring processes.
More information about commencement can be found here.
Any person who feels he or she may need special accommodations connected with the graduation ceremonies may contact the Americans with Disabilities Act Coordinator at (435) 283-7321.
