This Topic Index page provides links to Web sites with information about a variety of academic requirements at Penn State.

Academic entrance and retention requirements for majors
ACT 48 (eLion: Students)
Admission, undergraduate
Admission, graduate
Admission requirement, foreign/second language
Arts (General Education)
Audit of unfulfilled requirements (degree audit)
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree
C-grade
Change of campus (credit requirement)
Controlled majors: academic entrance and retention
Course substitution (exceptions to degree requirements)
Courses with C-grade requirement
Credit requirement for change of campus
Cumulative grade-point average requirements
Dean's List
Degree requirements
Entrance to college/major:

• Abington College
• Agricultural Sciences
• Altoona College
• Arts and Architecture
• Behrend College
• Berks College
• Business
• Capital College
• Communications
• Earth and Mineral Sciences
• Education
• Engineering
• Health and Human Development
• Information Sciences and Technology
• Liberal Arts
• Science
• University College

Exceptions to degree requirements (course substitutions)
Financial aid (satisfactory academic progress)
First-Year Seminar
Foreign/second language admission requirement
General Education
General Education requirement related to physical activity (GHA)
Graduation
Health and Physical Activity (General Education)
Humanities (General Education)
International Cultures (IL)
Laboratory science
Major, entrance to
Majors, academic entrance and retention
“Math” (Quantification; General Education)
Natural Sciences (General Education)
Other Cultures (Bachelor of Arts Degree)
“Phys ed” (Health and Physical Activity; General Education)
Physical activity (sports, clubs, etc.) and the General Education GHA requirement
Quantification (General Education)
Requirements for the minor
Retention requirements for college and major
Retention and transfer
Satisfactory academic progress (for financial aid)
Schreyer Honors College
Sciences, Natural (General Education)
Social and Behavioral Sciences (General Education)
Substitution of courses (exceptions to degree requirements)
Unfulfilled requirements, audit of
United States Cultures (US)
Writing Across the Curriculum
Writing/Speaking (General Education)