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2022-2023 Catalog and Student Handbook

Financial Aid Satisfactory Academic Progress Policy

Federal and state regulations, and Marietta College policy, require students to make satisfactory progress toward completion of their degree in order to maintain eligibility for financial assistance. Progress will include a measurement of all course work attempted at Marietta College. The quantitative and qualitative standards used to determine academic progress include all periods (fall, spring and summer terms) that the student is enrolled. Periods of enrollment in which the student did not receive financial aid funding are required to be included for satisfactory academic progress determination. Evidence of progress includes grades, work projects, and/or other factors that are measurable against a norm. The College assesses the student’s academic progress at the end of Spring term.

  1. Satisfactory academic progress is a condition for receipt of all financial aid resources administered by the College. Awards to students subsequently determined to have not met the financial aid standards or who have been dismissed will be withdrawn. Questions about the financial aid standards of satisfactory academic progress may be addressed to the Office of Student Financial Services.
  2. The financial aid standards of satisfactory academic progress apply to federal, state, and Marietta College resources. Different standards might be required for funds provided by other state and private agencies and, where applicable, will be governed by those standards.
  3. Satisfactory academic progress is reviewed at the completion of the Spring term. There is no warning or probation status unless the student appeals the loss and is granted an additional term of eligibility. If the student does not return to satisfactory academic progress at the completion of the probationary term, the student will be place on financial aid loss. Financial aid loss means the termination of all federal, state, and institutional aid.
  4. Students will be offered the opportunity to appeal a loss of financial aid. Appeals by those denied aid because of failure to meet these standards should be directed to the Associate Director of Student Financial Services for consideration by the Financial Aid Committee on Academic Progress. Members of the committee include the Director and Associate Director of Student Financial Services. The Associate Director of Student Financial Services convenes the committee.

Marietta’s financial aid standards of satisfactory academic progress required for retention of eligibility for financial aid involve qualitative and quantitative measures. The qualitative measure examines the quality of the student’s academic performance as measured by grade point average. The quantitative measure examines the student’s progress towards completion of the number of credit hours required to receive a degree.

Note that the financial aid standards are not the same as those applied by the Academic Standing Committee to determine whether a student is in good academic standing. The financial aid standards are minimum requirements a student must meet to retain financial aid eligibility, provided the Academic Standing Committee and Provost determine that the student is academically eligible to enroll at the institution. A student may be ineligible to receive aid through failure to meet the financial aid standards or may have met the financial aid standards but be ineligible to enroll at the College.