Application for Graduation/Graduation Checklist

At least two semesters before their projected graduation date, students are required to fill out the MFT Graduation Checklist and an Application for Degree and submit them to the Registrar’s Office. The Application for Degree  alerts the Registrar’s Office that you are planning to graduate in two semesters, so the Registrar begins comparing your MFT Graduation Checklist of completed courses to the published list of MFT Course Requirements. Students graduate once all requirements have been met. Thus, for the next two semesters, you will update the Application for Degree form as you complete the remaining two semesters. Here are the steps: 

Steps to Applying for Graduation

  • You will receive an email from the program with your MFT graduation checklist. Before you complete this form,print out your unofficial transcripts or download them to your electronic device to ensure you correctly complete your graduation checklist.  
  • Once you complete the MFT graduation checklist, email this back to your advisor.
  • Your Advisor will send you an email indicating your MFT Graduation Checklist has been approved, and you can complete the online Graduation Application for Degree.
  • Complete by February, otherwise, this may cause delays in being able to walk in May, receiving your degree in July, and receiving your diploma.
  • Make yourself a copy of all forms once they are signed. 
  • After your Graduation Application has been approved, request a Walk Early from Registrar. 
  • Once the Walk Early form has been approved, send the confirmation to your advisor
  • Pay the $50 graduation fee and receive a receipt sent to the email address you provided.

Note: It takes a great deal of time to review, complete, and sign your forms. Submit these to the MFT faculty advisor as early as possible.  

VSU does not host a Summer Graduation. If you would like to “walk” early during the Spring graduation ceremony, then you must request to participate in the Spring graduation by completing the Walk Early Request form with Registrar. This form must be completed at least one month prior to the Spring graduation ceremony date. However, please note that this form cannot be completed until you have received confirmation from the Office of the Registrar that you have successfully applied for graduation. 

Keep in mind that because you are filing forms with the Registrar’s office at least two semesters before you graduate, you will not yet have taken some courses listed on the MFT Graduation Checklist. Submit the form to the Registrar anyway and as soon as possible. After you complete the remaining courses, the MFT Clinical Coordinator will sign off on them, and an updated copy is resubmitted to the Registrar’s office.  

Important Note:  The Office of the Registrar will not allow anyone with an incomplete MFT Graduation Checklist or Graduation Application to graduate. This means, submitting your Case Load Form, accruing 500 hours of client contact and 100 Supervision hours, passing Comprehensive Exam I & II, and completing the Exit Survey. Do not delay. The Office of the Registrar has hundreds of applications to review, the longer you wait to submit your application, the longer it will take for Office of the Registrar to review your application.  If your materials have not been processed because they are incomplete or you are late submitting them, your graduation may be deferred, your transcripts may be delayed and/or your degree may not be conferred until the following semester.