Residency Requirements

Baccalaureate Degrees (B.A., B.S., B.F.A., B.S.N.)

Students must complete a minimum of 30 out of the last 36 credits at Rockford University on either a full-time or a part-time basis. Only students who completed at least 30 credits of study at Rockford University before the senior year and are pursuing an approved program at a professional school for transfer back to Rockford University to complete the degree can be exempted.

Students must complete at least 15 credits (including the senior seminar) in each major at Rockford University.

Second Baccalaureate Degree

Students who have earned one bachelor’s degree from a regionally-accredited college located in the United States prior to matriculation and would like to earn a second baccalaureate degree from Rockford University must complete a minimum of 30 credits of course work at Rockford University in addition to those credits required for completion of the first baccalaureate degree. These students are deemed to have met all lower-division general education requirements for graduation from Rockford University, and thus are required to complete only one upper-division general education requirement, Rhetoric 351.

The 30 credits minimum must satisfy all general education, major and supporting requirements that are specified in the catalog for the new degree and have not been fulfilled by courses for the first baccalaureate degree.

Second Major

Students who would like to earn just one degree and want to double major in a different bachelor’s degree program may do so without the additional 30 credits. They must fulfill all departmental requirements and all degree-specific requirements (credits outside the major; the foreign language for the Bachelor of Arts; the additional science, mathematics or computer science credits for the Bachelor of Science and the Bachelor of Science in Nursing) for each major and then choose which applicable degree they will receive at graduation (e.g., a Bachelor of Science in Nursing). The secondary major will be noted on the transcript (e.g., “The student has also fulfilled all requirements for a major in English, Spanish, etc…”).