Ball State University, located in Muncie, Indiana, offers associate degrees, bachelor's degrees, master's degrees and doctoral degrees. Reading the university's transcript correctly isn't complicated, but knowing the school transcript's specific symbols is important for reporting your grades and grade point average accurately to employers or other institutions of higher learning. The university is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.
Instructions
1. Verify that the correct first, middle and last name is at the top and center of your Ball State transcript. Look underneath your full name for you student identification number. Also, confirm that the name of your high school and the high school's city and state is listed at the top right corner of your transcript.
2. Look at the list of all of your courses on your Ball State transcript. Note that the names of the departments in which you completed a course should be abbreviated. For example, note that "TCOM" stands for telecommunications, "ENG" stands for English and "ECON" represents an economics department. The departments with their corresponding courses should be listed on the left under each fall and spring term in which you were enrolled at Ball State.
3. Observe the number listed to the right of each department name, which is the number of the course you took in that department. Look to the right of this number to see the specific name of the course, such as "human health" or even "internship." Search for the number to the right of the class name, which should have one decimal place and represents the number of credit hours of the course.
4. Check the letter grade listed at the very end of each course listing on your Ball State transcript. You will see a "CR" instead of a letter grade for a course in which a credit was given under a Credit/No Credit provision, or you will see a "W" if you went through an official withdrawal from the course, for example.
5. Look at the bottom of each fall and spring term on the transcript to see the number of credits you completed, which should have one decimal place, followed by your term GPA, which should have three decimal places. Check out the line below the term GPA to see your accumulated number of credits completed and your overall GPA following that particular term.
6. Verify that the bottom right corner of your Ball State transcript lists Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, followed by the type of degree earned, your departmental major and your departmental minor. Look above this section for your cumulative Ball State GPA.
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