1. 123 credit hours required for graduation, including the following minimums: 

• At least 39 but no more than 43 credit hours of mass communications courses (journalism, telecommunications, selected communication and culture and FINA-A 443)
• At least 65 credit hours from the College of Arts and Sciences, excluding FINA-A 443, all telecommunications courses, and selected communication and culture courses
• At least 98 credit hours combined from journalism and the College of Arts and Sciences
• At least 24 credit hours in a second concentration selected from one academic discipline outside of journalism, telecommunications, and selected communication and culture courses
• At least 36 credit hours at the 300 and 400 level
• At least 10 credit hours of journalism from the Bloomington campus
• At least 26 credit hours of course work during the senior year from the Bloomington campus

2. Credit hour limits

• No more than 43 credit hours of mass communication courses (journalism, telecommunications, selected communication and culture courses and FINA-A 443)
• No more than 12 transfer credit hours of mass communications (journalism, telecommunications, selected communication and culture courses and FINA-A 443)
• No more than 3 credit hours total of internship credit, either from JOUR-J 492 or any other academic unit
• No more than 60 transfer credit hours from a community college
• Optional electives: 25 or fewer credit hours outside the School of Journalism and the College of Arts and Sciences
• For students satisfying the requirements for a secondary teaching certificate, no more than 29 credit hours of approved education courses

3. Grade Point Average

• A minimum 2.0 cumulative grade point average in all course work
• A minimum 2.0 grade point average in all major course work, C- or higher in each course, with the exception of the journalism course used for admission to the BAJ (J 110, J 200 or J 210), in which a grade of C or higher is required
• A minimum 2.0 grade point average in all course work for the second concentration, C- or higher in each course
• The Extended-X policy will not be used in calculating grade point averages for internal purposes. FX or WF will be calculated as F, DX as D, etc.