Senior Privilege Info Flyer

Senior Privilege Info Flyer

Senior Privilege Program

The Rohrer College of Business is delighted to encourage Rowan’s strongest undergraduate students to consider participating in the Senior Privilege Program.

Benefits

  • Students can enroll in up to two graduate business courses during their senior year, up to 8 credits total.
  •  Students can only enroll in one graduate course per semester, and are eligible to choose courses during the Summer, Fall, and Spring semesters.
  • These courses can “double count” to satisfy Bachelor of Science requirements, and assuming students eventually pursue their MBA or MS Finance at Rowan, these same courses will also satisfy graduate degree requirements.
  • Students will be charged the undergraduate tuition rates (as opposed to the graduate rate) for graduate-level courses taken under the Senior Privilege Program.
  • Students participating in the Senior Privilege Program will gain a deeper understanding of how a master’s degree can impact their career goals and can prepare themselves for a shorter time to completion of a future master’s degree pursuit.
  • Once students are accepted and enrolled in the MBA or MSF program, credits from successfully completed Senior Privilege courses will automatically transfer to their graduate transcript.

Minimum Eligibility Requirements

  • Officially matriculated in an undergraduate academic program at Rowan University
  • Officially earned at least 90 undergraduate credits at time of starting graduate courses
  • Cumulative Rowan undergraduate grade point average (GPA) minimum of 3.0
  • Meet all of the required prerequisites for the requested graduate course(s)
  • In good financial and academic standing at Rowan

Policies and Guidelines

  • Senior Privilege requests are approved on a first-come but space-available basis, and
    course registration is typically processed 3 weeks prior to course start dates.
    • When your Senior Privilege Request Form is submitted, our office can provide you with the likelihood of seats being available in your requested course. If the course you request is likely to fill, we can suggest alternative options with a higher likelihood of having seats available.
    • As Senior Privilege registration cannot be guaranteed, be sure to have a solid Senior Privilege Program schedule set based on undergraduate courses. We recommend that in order to satisfy undergraduate requirements (such as a required elective) students register for an undergraduate course as well to satisfy those same requirements. In the event your Senior Privilege request is approved, you will be notified ASAP and can drop the undergraduate course.
  • We suggest that you monitor the seat availability of your targeted graduate
    course, and if it fills to capacity, submit a revised form for a course with seat availability.
    • You can submit more than one Senior Privilege request each semester to increase the chances of your securing a seat in an MBA course.
    • You will only be approved for one course, but submitting multiple requests increases the likelihood you will be approved.
    • If submitting multiple Senior Privilege forms, please be sure to include your preferences for course registration (rank the courses, so if space is available you are registered for the course you most desire).

Your Action Steps to Participate

  • Download the Senior Privilege Request Form (not all signatures needed, see below).
  • Retrieve approvals on the Senior Privilege Request Form from:
    • your undergraduate academic advisor (per Self-Service Banner); and
    • the instructor for the graduate course(s) of interest.
  • Digital Approval Process:
    • Approvals can either be through signatures on the Senior Privilege Request Form, OR your advisor and/or the faculty can email GraduateBusinessStudies@rowan.edu directly noting their approval.
  • Leave the “Department Chair of Graduate Program” signature line blank, as that is the final approval from the Graduate Business Studies office.
  • Submit completed forms as a PDF to GraduateBusinessStudies@rowan.edu (and this office will then forward them to the appropriate department at Rowan for processing the registration).