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| Associate Degree (Graduation) Requirements |
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Graduates from San Bernardino Valley College (SBVC) receive an Associate of Arts degree or an Associate of Science degree. To earn an Associate degree, students must complete general education breadth requirements as specified in Option #1 or Option #2 in the catalog, as well as additional units of electives and/or lower division requirements for a major.
Students must file a Graduation Application in the Records Office by the deadlines listed below:
Fall graduation - October 1
Spring graduation - March 1
Summer graduation - July 1
When printed deadlines fall on either Saturday or Sunday, the filing period will be extended to the Monday following the deadline date. |
| Graduation Catalog Rights |
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| A student in continuous attendance at San Bernardino Valley College, (or one who does not have a break in attendance of over five years), may either meet the graduation requirements in effect at the time of his/her initial enrollment at the college or the requirements in effect at the time of his/her graduation. A student who has had a break in attendance of over five years must meet the graduation requirements in effect at the time of readmission to the college or those in effect at the time of his/her graduation. |
| Graduation Requirement Exceptions |
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| When a student has a deficiency in one or more of the areas required for graduation, he/she has the option of filing a Petition for Academic Exception, which is available in the Counseling Center (Administration and Student Services building room 103). Each petition will be considered on the basis of its overall, individual merit by the Scholastic Standards Committee. |
| Vocational Certificate Programs |
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San Bernardino Valley College offers certificates of occupational proficiency in many fields. Certificates enable the student to gain marketable skills relatively quickly and at less expense than would be required for an associate degree. Students working toward a certificate are not typically required to take advanced academic courses in such fields as philosophy, foreign languages or history. Nonetheless, they must have a sufficient background in arithmetic, reading and writing in order to complete their coursework and to succeed in the occupations they select. Refer to page 37 of the catalog for a complete list of certificates, and to the individual programs described in Part III for a complete list of the sequence and scope of courses required for each certificate. Students interested in enrolling in certificate programs should confer with a counselor and talk with representatives of the departments that offer the desired program. In some instances, courses completed in high school may be used to satisfy some of the requirements for a certificate. In addition, training programs such as military courses, apprenticeships or other training may be credited toward a certificate program.
At the beginning of the student's final semester, he/she should obtain a Graduation and/or Certificate Application either from the Records Office or the division office of his/her certificate program. The student will then submit the application to the Records Office for a final check by the deadline date for the semester in question. Those dates are as follows:
Fall October 1
Spring March 1
Summer July 1
When printed deadlines fall either Saturday or Sunday, the filing period will be extended to the Monday following the deadline date.
Twelve units, or 50 percent of the coursework required for a certificate, whichever is the lesser, must be completed at San Bernardino Valley College. This residency requirement may be waived in the case of extenuating circumstances with the permission of the program coordinator or Department Head. The certificate will be prepared by the Records Office and will be available to the student by the start of each new semester following the semester of submission. |
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