Academic Audit

All graduate students will be able to see their online Academic Audit. Students who start in fall 2025 or later will be expected to follow the course requirements listed on their audit to complete their credentials. Students who started prior to fall 2025, may complete a Degree Schedule or use their online audit. The Academic Audit will describe the appropriate path for each student.

The Degree Progress Checklist is an app designed by Michigan Tech and is only accessible to graduate students. It includes:

• Expected graduation term, and a link to update it
• A list of non-curricular requirements, such as RCR training and the Proprietary Rights Agreement form
• A detailed listing of items submitted to complete a dissertation, thesis, or report
• The examination committee

The Academic Audit will list the curricular requirements for your degree, but will not include the above items.

The Degree Schedule contains the coursework requirements for your degree. There are, however, more requirements such as the Graduation Application, or dissertation requirements. The Academic Audit will list all of the curricular requirements for a credential.

The Academic Audit is organized as a series of blocks.

• The Student Information block lists the student’s name, M number, and a drop down menu listing all credentials pursued by a student. Use the drop down menu in this block to switch to view a different credential.
• The Degree Progress block shows progress toward the credential and gives options to hide or display in progress or registered courses.
• The Degree block lists the overall requirements for the degree or credential. This block may reference other blocks that need to be completed in order to earn a credential.
• The Program block lists the specific requirements for the graduate program. If a student is pursuing more than one program, such as multiple Graduate Certificates, each certificate will have its own Program block.
• The Graduate School Requirements block will list additional requirements from the Graduate School for students completing a dissertation, thesis, or report.

Additional blocks may be present to list courses that do not apply to the blocks above. More details on those blocks can be found in other FAQs.

If a previously completed Degree Schedule needs to be updated, the graduate program must submit a revised Degree Schedule. The Graduate School will review the Academic Audit and determine how best to display the student’s requirements on the audit.

If the program has a requirement to complete coursework that has been approved by an advisor, one of the following messages on the audit:

• Your graduate program will enter these courses as exceptions.
• This rule will show as complete until your graduate program enters these courses as exceptions.

Students and advisors should meet to determine the appropriate courses and communicate those requirements to the Graduate Program Director. The Graduate Program Director will approve the courses and enter the courses as requirements on the audit.

The graduate program will need to complete a Transfer Credits form. Please refer to the Transfer Credits page for more information.

The graduate program will need to inform the Graduate School which courses can be used. Please refer to the Accelerated Master’s page for more information.

Currently enrolled PhD students may complete the Request to Add a Master’s Degree form. The master’s degree must be in the same academic unit as the PhD degree. See the form for additional information.