Admissions, Records and Recruitment
Phone: (901) 333-5924
Fax: (901) 333-4473-M / (901) 333-5920-U
STUDENT RECORDS -
DEGREE & CERTIFICATE GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS
The Admission, Records and Recruitment Office is the
administrative unit responsible for implementing graduation policies. Each
student seeking a degree or certificate from Southwest Tennessee Community
college must meet the following requirements:
Associate Degrees
- Be admitted to degree status at the
College by fulfilling all requirements
- Earn a minimum of at least 60 college
level semester hours of credit
- Satisfy all requirements of an A.S. or A.A.
degree area of interest or those of a specific A.A.S. degree major as
listed in the catalog
- Successfully complete all minimum degree
requirements as specified for the degree by Tennessee Board of Regents
policy
- Fulfill the residency requirement by
completing 21 semester hours of credit at Southwest
- For the A.A. degree, satisfactorily
complete six (6) hours of a single foreign language
- For A.A. and A.S. degrees, complete high
school unit requirements
- Have an accumulative quality point average
of at least 2.0
- Be free of debt to Southwest
- Be approved by the faculty in the area
offering the selected degree
- File an Application for Graduation form with the Admissions, Records and Recruitment Office
- Take the required graduation examination
and authorize the release of scores to the College
Academic Certificate of Credit
- Be admitted to degree status at the
College by fulfilling all requirements
- Earn at least the minimum number of
required semester hours of credit as stated in the catalog
- Satisfy all requirements specified in the
College’s catalog for the particular Academic Certificate of Credit
- Have an accumulative quality point average
of at least 2.0
- Be debt free to the College
- Be approved by the faculty in the area
offering the selected certificate
- File an Application for Graduation form
with the Admissions, Records and Recruitment Office
Technical Certificate of Credit
- Be admitted to either degree or non-degree
status at the College by fulfilling all requirements
- Earn at least the minimum number of
required semester hours of credit as stated in the catalog
- Satisfy all requirements specified in the
College’s catalog for the particular Technical Certificate of Credit
- Have an accumulative quality point average
of at least 2.0
- Be debt free to the College
- Be approved by the faculty in the area
offering the selected Technical Certificate
- File an Application for Graduation form with the Admissions, Records and Recruitment Office
