Degree and Credit Progress
Status audit
Graduation Requirement Progress Calculator
Track remaining credits in general education, the major, and electives without allowing one category's surplus to erase another category's shortage.
Enter three requirement categories
Preserve category evidence
List the courses and approved exceptions behind each category subtotal. A percentage without that list cannot reveal double counting or an incorrect category placement.
When curriculum rules allow a course to satisfy two labels but only one credit total, follow the audit's credit treatment rather than adding the credits twice.
Review residency, upper-level, grade, and sequencing conditions alongside these category volumes because they can remain unsatisfied at 100% credit completion.
Subtotals should come from one audit date. Combining a newly updated major total with an older general-education total can create a plausible percentage that never existed in the official record.
If requirements overlap, document the institution's double-counting rule before entering the categories. The calculator assumes each entered credit belongs in the stated subtotal and does not adjudicate overlap.
Keep an uncategorized line outside these three inputs if the audit has another protected bucket, such as residence or upper-level credit. Forcing it into electives may improve the displayed percentage while obscuring the actual restriction.
Protect category-specific shortages
- Confirm category requirements under one catalog.
- Reconcile applied courses by category.
- Preserve category-specific shortages.
- Review course sequencing in the remaining major credits.
Category placement controls the result
A course may satisfy general education, the major, an elective, or more than one rule under institutional policy.
Use the official audit rather than assigning a course to the most convenient category.
Remaining category work may add non-credit milestones to the review or check readiness for a remaining course sequence.
Total progress can conceal a category shortage
A strong overall percentage may coexist with an unfinished major sequence.
Read the three remaining balances before relying on the combined completion figure.
Arithmetic behind the result
Each remaining balance is capped at zero so surplus credits in one category do not appear to satisfy another.
Three graduation-credit categories
Completing 30 of 36 general-education credits, 33 of 54 major credits, and 24 of 30 electives gives 72.5% combined progress. Six general-education, 21 major, and six elective credits remain.
Clarifying the inputs
Can one course count in two categories?
Only when the official degree audit permits double counting.
Why show an overall percentage if categories matter?
It summarizes volume, while the separate balances protect category requirements.
What if completed credits exceed a category requirement?
That category shows zero remaining; excess credit does not automatically move elsewhere.