Contact 713-743-2182 or LawOSA@uh.edu with questions.
How can I check to make sure I’m on schedule to graduate?
Degree Audit/Check - We highly recommend/encourage all students to have a degree audit/check completed before your last semester. This is the only way to make sure that you know exactly what you will need to graduate. Please fill out the top portion of the Graduation Check form (http://www.law.uh.edu/OSA/gradcheck.pdf) and send it to the Office of Student Affairs (OSA) Registration and Records Assistant (Lawosa@uh.edu). This OSA staff person will return the completed form to you (please allow 3-5 days for processing). If you have remaining questions about your degree progress after reviewing your Graduation Check form, you can schedule an advising appointment with the OSA Director of Student Advisement (LawAdvising@uh.edu)
Note: LLM students must contact Director, Graduate Legal Studies for a Graduation Check/Review, LLM@uh.edu.
Degree Requirements
You will find the degree requirements in the Student Handbook (http://law.uh.edu/jd/current/handbook.pdf?).
Credits - 90 hours are required for graduation, (64 must be courses with letter grades), with a 2.33 minimum GPA. In addition to the 1st year required curriculum, each student must complete the following courses at the Law Center to graduate:
Professional Responsibility Course – Students must take and pass a three-hour Professional Responsibility course.
Upper-Level Writing Course Requirement - Students may satisfy this requirement by: (1) completing a writing seminar (WRS); or (2) taking a writing course (WRC); and (3) meeting the requirements of section II.M of the Student Handbook for whichever type of course is taken.
Experiential Credits Requirement – Students must take and pass one or more experiential course(s) (with letter grades) totaling at least six credit hours. An experiential course is a simulation course, a law clinic, or a field placement. No more than three credits of field placement credit can be applied to the experiential credit requirement. Except for up to three credits of field placement course(s), courses used to meet the experiential requirement must be graded with letter grades.
ABA 303(c) Education - Under ABA standards, students must complete education in bias, cross-cultural competency, and racism during their first year and at least once again before graduation or before or concurrent with a clinic course or field placement course.
Professional Identity Development Requirement - Under ABA standards, students must complete professional identity development session(s) provided by UHLC during each year of law school. The programming is called PASSPORT to Success and is deployed by the Career Development Office.
Distance Education Credit-Hour Limit - Students are not permitted to take more than one half of their credits to graduate as distance education courses. A distance education course under ABA standards means one in which students are separated from the faculty member or each other for more than one-third of the instruction time/sessions and such instruction involves the use of technology to support regular and substantive interaction among students and between the students and the faculty member, either synchronously or asynchronously. The course description for a course will indicate whether that course is designated as an ABA distance education course.
Filing for Graduation – to officially graduate from the University, all students must file a Graduation Application online through your MyUH self-service account by the designated filing deadline. Click on the “Apply for Graduation” link listed under your Student Center.
Timely Filing Fee - $25
Late Filing Fee - $50
See Academic Calendar for deadlines, http://www.law.uh.edu/calendar/academic-calendar.asp.
