Academic award are divided into gold academic medal and silver academic medal.
What are the review criteria for the gold academic medal?
The criteria for general undergraduates shall be based on their semester grade average for the last 7 semesters; criteria for students being approved to graduate one academic year ahead of the regular time of study shall be based on their semester grade average for the last 5 semesters; criteria for students transferring into the second academic year shall be based on their semester grade average for the last 5 semesters; criteria for students transferring into the third academic year shall be based on their semester grade average for the last 3 semesters.
The criteria for graduate students with two years of study shall be based on their semester grade average for the last 3 semesters; criteria for other graduate students with three years of study shall be based on their semester grade average for the last 5 semesters.
Those who graduate with excellent overall grades will be recommended by each department.
What are the review criteria for the silver academic medal?
The criteria for graduate students, undergraduates shall be based on their annual grade average of the previous academic year.
The number of classes for graduate school including regular master programs and two-year on-job programs shall be counted separately. One more class shall be counted in the case that the total number of students is over thirty; in the case that the total number of students within the same grade of a department is less than thirty, the number of class shall be deemed as one.
For students with excellent academic performance, one candidate from each grade and class will be recommended by each department.
What are the application and review procedures for academic award?
Office of Academic Affairs will send students’ grades to all departments as references in accordance with the criteria specified in Article 2. Applications for Academic Gold and Silver Awards are to be submitted according to the schedule announced in “Yuan Ze University Student Academic Award Regulations”.
Departments/institutes/colleges shall send student numbers, Chinese names and English names of students being recommended to Office of Academic Affairs through e-mails ( copies shall be sent to College Deans and Department Chairmen as well).
Office of Academic Affairs shall send the list of recommended students to Office of Student Affairs for final verification.
If students who are awarded with Gold Academic Medal aren’t able to graduate in June of the current academic year, their qualifications shall be deprived and shall be replaced by new candidates recommended by departments.