Degree Requirements

These courses provide for a common core of academic experience for Emory College students. Faculty and advisors work closely with students, especially in the first two years, in choosing the specific courses used to fulfill these requirements. The faculty's principal objective in establishing these requirements is to encourage students to familiarize themselves with the knowledge and the methodologies that characterize the arts and humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences and mathematics; to increase their ability to express ideas effectively in English and in another language; to extend their capacities for making informed judgments of value; to expand their knowledge and understanding of themselves, of their own and other cultures, and of the natural world; and to develop their awareness of the ways in which the various academic disciplines may complement one another in solving the world's problems.

• For students who entered Emory College in Fall 2022 or prior, click here to see your General Education Requirements (the 2009 Requirements)
• For students who entered Emory College in Fall 2023 or later, click here to see your General Education Requirements (the 2023 Requirements)

Students must complete requirements for a major in a particular academic field. In order to complete a major, students must formally designate a program no earlier than the second semester of their freshman year and no later than the end of the sophomore year. Students will normally be required to complete the major or minor requirements that are in place at the time they declare the program. When the requirements for a major or minor have changed, students may petition to complete the program under the old or new requirements, and departments have the discretion to approve or reject these requests.

The departments and the deans reserve the right to judge the advisability of an applicant's admission to any particular concentration. Each student's major program must be arranged under the direction and with the approval of a faculty advisor in the major with a view to obtaining reasonable mastery of a chosen field and with due provision for work outside that field. Minors are available in certain fields for students who wish to complete a minor in addition to a major. Students must maintain at least a C (2.0) average in any major or minor they complete. If they choose, Emory College students may be certified in two, but not more than two, areas of concentration. An Emory College student may thus have two majors or one major and a minor. Students enrolled in the BBA program may be certified in one area of concentration in Emory College (either a major or a minor).

Students may earn one, and only one, of the following undergraduate degrees from Emory University. In completing the following degrees, Emory College officially recognizes no more than two concentrations-either two majors or a major and minor. Such recognition does not appear on Emory diplomas but is shown on students' transcripts.

Students who meet the requirements from Oxford College and receive an associate degree may continue to Emory College of Arts and Sciences to receive a bachelor’s degree.

Oxford College Continuees must earn a total of 126 credit hours (124 academic credit hours, 1 PE credit hours, and a third academic or PE credit hour) to graduate from Emory College; of these credit hours, a minimum of fifty-four credit hours must be earned in Emory College with a minimum of three semesters of residence in Emory College (twelve credit hours or more per semester); a semester of fewer than twelve credit hours can be combined with another semester of fewer than twelve credit hours to make up one semester of residence; however, a partial semester may not be combined with a semester of more than twelve credit hours to form two semesters of residence.