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Graduation Requirements

All students completing programs of study at Northeast Mississippi Community College are encouraged to participate in graduation. Students desiring to graduate must apply for their degree/diploma in the Records office before the posted deadline. Application dates for applying for graduation are posted each semester.

Any student (new admit, transfer, or readmit) who enrolls at Northeast with a new catalog term of Fall 2021 or after must have LLS 1151 College Life to graduate. The Registrar and Vice President of Instruction have the collaborative right to waive LLS 1151 College Life for a student.

Computer-based and technology-based courses should be completed within five (5) years of the graduation date to ensure students are career-ready upon graduation.

Residency Requirement

To be eligible for graduation, a transfer student must complete a minimum of one semester (15 semester hours) in residence. Transfer students must complete at least 25% of their degree requirements at Northeast to graduate. A cumulative grade point average of 2.0 must be earned on all academic work to graduate. Transfer students must present all prior academic transcripts at the time of enrollment. Earned academic transcripts from other institutions presented during the last semester may not be counted towards the degree/diploma.

Competency Requirements

To earn a degree or a certificate, a student must demonstrate through periodic examinations and other requirements, as stated in the course syllabi, that he/she is competent in all courses within a particular curriculum. In addition, completion requirements for associate degrees include being competent in communication, critical thinking, collaboration, digital fluency, and quantitative literacy.

Communication
- Students will demonstrate effective verbal communication by articulating abstract ideas to others. 
  Students will demonstrate effective written communication by developing and presenting cogent, coherent, and substantially error-free writing for communication to general and specialized audiences. 
  Students will demonstrate effective group communication by responding to others.
Critical Thinking
- Students will demonstrate critical thinking by identifying important problems, questions, and issues; analyzing, interpreting, and making judgments of the relevance and quality of information; assessing assumptions and considering alternative perspectives and solutions. 
Collaboration
- Students will apply knowledge of subject matter through small group discussions or class discussions. 
  Students will create content with classmates. 
  Students will apply knowledge of the subject matter by solving a problem in small groups. 
Digital Fluency
- Students will maintain and manage a variety of digital tools and resources. 
  Students will use digital resources to access relevant and reliable information. 
Quantitative Literacy
- Students will present accurate representations of quantitative information on political, economic, health-related, or technological topics and explain how both calculations and symbolic operations are used in those offerings. 
  Students will create and explain graphs or other visual depictions of trends, relationships, or status changes.

Exception for Graduation Participation

A student may participate in the fall or spring graduation ceremony if he/she is within eight semester hours of meeting the degree requirements and if he/she has a 2.00 GPA. The student must plan to complete the degree-required courses in the immediate term after participating in graduation. A vocational student lacking a summer term meeting the certificate requirements may participate in graduation if he/she has a 2.00 GPA, and if he/she plans to complete the requirements in the immediate summer school after graduation. In both cases, the degree or certificate awards will be made after all required coursework is completed.

Graduation and Transfer-Out Rates

Graduation and Transfer-out rates may be obtained in the Records Office in Ramsey Hall.

Academic Transcripts

An academic transcript will be issued only upon a written and signed request from the student provided that all college obligations have been met. Wherever possible, an electronic transcript will be sent to our college partners accepting these transcript formats. Others will be mailed. Additional fees will apply for Overnight or Rush delivery of transcripts.

Northeast Mississippi Community College has appointed Parchment as a designated agent for processing and sending official electronic transcripts on behalf of Northeast Mississippi Community College. The PDF transcript that is produced using this service contains the identical information as the printed transcript and can be certified as unaltered by uploading the file to the company’s website which is provided during the delivery process. Parchment has been granted the authority to deliver all such electronic transcript requests on behalf of Northeast Mississippi Community College and respond to any inquiries regarding the transactions.

More information on requesting a transcript can be found at on the NEMCC website under Transcript Requests.

Associate of Arts Degree

The Associate of Arts degree is awarded to students completing university parallel programs. Candidates for the AA degree must complete the following:

Earn a minimum of 62 semester hours applicable to a bachelor’s degree of which 3 semester hours may be non-academic credits (see note below).
Complete LLS 1151 College Life
Earn a grade point average of 2.0.
Complete the 32 semester hours of general education core consisting of:
- English Composition (ENG 1113 and ENG 1123, 6 semester hours),
- Social and/or behavioral science (6 semester hours from sociology, psychology, political science, geography, economics, or educational psychology),
- Humanities (6 semester hours from history, literature, modern foreign language, philosophy, religion, art, speech, or music appreciation, music survey, art history I or II),
- Laboratory science (8 semester hours),
- Fine arts (3 semester hours selected from art/music/theatre appreciation, music survey, or art history I or II),
- Mathematics (MAT 1313, equivalent or above, 3 semester hours).

Non-Academic/Activity courses These courses are considered as non-academic credit. Therefore, they may account for no more than 3 hours of the 62 required for graduation.

COE-1013 Cooperative Education Work Experience I

COE-1023 Cooperative Education Work Experience II

COE-1033 Cooperative Education Work Experience III

LLS-0111 Essential College Skills I

LLS-0121 Essential College Skills II

LLS-1151 College Life

LLS-1211 Self Affirmation

LLS-1311 Orientation

LLS-1321 Career Exploration

LLS-1411 Improvement of Study

LLS-1711 Job Search Skills

HON-1131 Academic Team I

HON-1141 Academic Team II

HON-2131 Academic Team III

HON-2141 Academic Team IV

HPR-1111 Gen Physical Edu Activities I

HPR-1121 Gen Physical Edu Activities II

HPR-1131 Varsity Sports I

HPR-1141 Varsity Sports II

HPR-1551 Fitness Center I

HPR-1561 Fitness/Condition Training II

HPR-2111 Gen Physical Edu Activities III

HPR-2131 Varsity Sports III

HPR-2141 Varsity Sports IV

HPR-2551 Fitness/Conditioning Train III

HPR-2561 Fitness Center IV

JOU-1111 College Publications I

JOU-1121 College Publications II

JOU-2111 College Publications III

JOU-2121 College Publications IV

MUO-1111 Band I

MUO-1121 Band II

MUO-1141 Small Band Groups I

MUO-1151 Small Band Groups II

MUO-1171 Stage Band I

MUO-1181 Stage Band II

MUO-1211 Chorus I

MUO-1221 Chorus II

MUO-1241 Small Singing Groups I

MUO-1251 Small Singing Groups II

MUO-2111 Band III

MUO-2121 Band IV

MUO-2141 Small Band Groups III

MUO-2151 Small Band Groups IV

MUO-2171 Stage Band III

MUO-2181 Stage Band IV

MUO-2211 Chorus III

MUO-2221 Chorus IV

MUO-2241 Small Singing Groups III

MUO-2251 Small Singing Groups IV

Any courses in Business & Engineering Technology programs and Health Sciences programs

Associate of Applied Science Degree

The Associate of Applied Science degree is awarded to students completing requirements in technical programs. To receive the A.A.S. degree, candidates must:

Complete the number of semester hours as designated in programs of study.
Complete LLS 1151 College Life
Earn a minimum grade point average of 2.0.
Complete the 15 semester hours general education core consisting of:
- English Composition ( ENG 1113, 3 semester hours),
- Social or behavioral science (3 semester hours from sociology, psychology, political science, geography, economics, or educational psychology),
- Fine arts (3 semester hours selected from art/music/theatre appreciation),
- Computer or computer-related (3 semester hours) or Speech (SPT 1113, 3 semester hours)
- College Algebra (MAT 1313 ) 3 semester hours or above, OR laboratory science course BIO, CHE, PHY, AGR (4 semester hours).
Complete major courses consisting of 40-65 semester hours.

Cooperative Education: Three hours of Co-op (COE) or Learning and Life Skills (LLS) credit are accepted for elective credit in each degree program published in this catalog. These courses are considered as non-academic credit. Therefore, they may account for no more than 3 hours of the 62 required for graduation.

Certificate

A certificate is awarded to a student who successfully completes the prescribed programs of study. The requirements for graduation are:

Complete each unit of the prescribed program of study.
Earn a minimum grade point average of 2.0 in the program.
Any student (new admit, transfer, or readmit) who enrolls at Northeast with a new catalog term of Fall 2021 or after must have LLS 1151 College Life to graduate.