Repeating Sources of Credit
Repetition of an Excelsior Source of Credit for Which a Student Earned a Failing Grade
Students enrolled in an Excelsior University degree program are allowed three (3) attempts of an Excelsior course for which they have received a grade below what is required by their program to meet the requirement. A student who reaches the maximum number of attempts for a course that must be taken at Excelsior cannot complete their academic program. Excelsior offers the student the opportunity to transfer to an appropriate degree program within 60 days. Failure to transfer will result in academic dismissal from the program and administrative withdrawal from the University.
Nursing Courses: Prospective students who have failed the same nursing requirement three times will be denied admission to the nursing program. Students must earn a passing grade in a failed nursing course before registering for another nursing course.
Repeat Exceptions
| Academic Program | Requirement | Total Number of Attempts |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Undergraduate Nursing Degree Programs | Nursing Component / Major Core | 2 | Includes the bachelor’s degree component of the RN-MSN degree program |
| Executive Master of Business Administration | MBAE 509 Resilient Leadership and Organizational Behavior MBAE 521 Operations and Project Management MBAE 573 Strategic Brand Marketing MBAE 570 Information Technology MBAE 596 Strategy and Entrepreneurial Innovation MBAE 699 Business Strategy Capstone |
1 | Students may not repeat these courses. Students earning a D or an F in one of these courses will be academically dismissed from the program. Students earning a C in one of these courses must earn sufficient quality points in the Executive Master of Business Administration program to reach the 3.0 GPA required for graduation |
| MBAE 508 Managerial Economics MBAE 524 Corporate Finance and Accounting MBAE 532 Ethical Risk Management and Compliance MBAE 595 Systems and Sustainability |
1-2 | Students may repeat two of the non-residency courses one time (i.e., 2 attempts), except for MBAE 699 Business Strategy Capstone which can’t be repeated. The repeat will occur with the corresponding online MBA course during one of the last two terms within this year long program. |
Repetition of Sources of Credit for Which a Student Earned a Passing Grade
Students may repeat an Excelsior University source of credit where a passing grade has been earned. Credit which has been transferred in may also be repeated.
NOTE: Federal Student Aid [Title IV] can only pay for one repeat of a source of credit for which a passing grade was earned.
NOTE: Repeating any Excelsior source of credit will require students to pay all tuition and/or fees that are associated with repeating the requirement.
Transcription of Repeated Sources of Credit
All grades for repeated Excelsior University sources of credit will be listed on the student’s degree audit and transcript, and the most recent grade earned for the course will be used in all GPA calculations. If a student repeats an external source of credit that has already been transcribed by Excelsior and wishes to use the newer source of credit, the original source of credit will be marked as duplicative in the student information system, removed from student’s degree audit and transcript, removed from GPA and hours earned and attempted calculations, and replaced with the replacement source of credit. Withdrawals (M/AW/MW) do not count as earned grades for the purposes of this procedure.
Are Exceptions of Procedure Allowed?
Appeals to approve additional repeat attempts may be made by submitting an appeal through studentsupport@excelsior.edu. The department chair of the student’s program will make the determination. The department chair may work with the dean in making the determination.
