UMBC provides two online tools that are critical to your academic planning:  degree audit and what-if degree audit.  These tools are available to you in myUMBC under the topic “Advising and Student Support.” 

Using degree audit, you can track your progress toward degree completion including university requirements (120 credits, 2 PHED courses, etc.), general education requirements, and requirements for majors, minors, and certificates.  Degree audit removes the guessing and the uncertainty in your academic planning for both you and your advisor. There is nothing more satisfying than seeing a long line of “Satisfied” notations on your degree audit report!

You can walk into your advising appointment already knowing exactly where you stand on AH, SS, C, ENGL, and all the other alphabet soup of a degree here at UMBC. So you can talk to your advisor about summer internships, new courses the department is offering, or how to get involved in undergraduate research, all of which are much more interesting and fruitful. 

But what if you are having ideas about a different major or perhaps adding a minor or a certificate program? We have a tool for that too! 

Using what-if degree audit scenarios, you can explore how your completed, in progress, and already-enrolled-for-a-future-term coursework can be applied toward various majors, minors, and certificates offered here at UMBC. 

Without actually changing your major, you can see how your courses would stack up against the requirements of that “other” major.  This makes clear how many additional courses would be necessary and therefore how much longer (or shorter) your path would be to a diploma. 

Spring semester advising and registration are currently taking place. Therefore, we strongly encourage you to use degree audit and what-if degree audit scenarios now to actively explore academic possibilities and better understand your graduation path at UMBC.  These tools can help you and your academic advisor to strategically plan a course of study that reflects your unique skills, interests, and abilities and allows you to graduate on schedule, whatever your schedule may be.

More information about using degree audit and what-if degree audit is available on the following links:

Degree Audit –Click here

What-if Degree Audit –Click here

EXTRA CREDIT DISCUSSION QUESTION:

How have you used degree audit or what-if degree audit in your academic planning at UMBC thus far?