Frequently Asked Questions

There are multiple ways to get a copy of your degree requirements. If you are an undergraduate or second bachelor’s degree student, you can view your degree audit online. Additionally, all students can visit the UNT Catalog to view their major or contact their academic advisor.

If you are a graduate student, your program may or may not have an online degree audit at this time. Additional graduate programs will be added to the online degree audit system over time. For more information, refer to the Graduate program information page.

A degree audit is a tool for students and advisors that lists the requirements for a student’s official degree and the student’s progress toward completing those requirements.

An online degree audit lists all your degree requirements in a user-friendly format referred to as the “interactive audit.” With few exceptions, the information on your online degree audit is identical to the information viewed by your college and school academic advisors.

You can run your degree audit online at any time to check your current progress toward meeting your degree requirements. You can also explore your degree options by running a “what-if” audit for any undergraduate major or certificate, as well as certain graduate programs, at UNT to see how it might work for you.

You can access your degree audit from UNT Degree Audit or through myUNT by going to the ‘Advising & Orientation’ tile, selecting ‘Degree Audit Report’, and clicking the ‘Request Audit’ button.

See the How to read your degree audit page for information about how to read your online degree audit.

We encourage you to discuss your degree audit with your advisor. Your advisor will be able to explain your audit and help you decide on the best course of action to help you achieve your goals. You can find a list of advising offices on the Get Advised page.

Access for incoming students is granted based on which term you are admitted for.

• Admitted for Summer or Fall: Access is granted when degree audit changes are approved for the upcoming Fall (typically late Spring).
• Admitted for Spring: Access is granted by the end of October.

Access is not granted before degree audit changes have been approved to ensure accurate information is provided.

Your transfer credits should be visible on your degree audit after your official transcript has been processed and added to your academic record. Please be aware that processing timeframes can vary during peak times. Peak times usually occur at both the beginning and end of each Fall, Spring, and Summer term.

Note: Certain types of courses are not automatically posted to your academic record:

• Certain prior learning and technical credit is posted by advisor request only. For more information, refer to the Types of courses page.
• Graduate transfer credit is posted by request only. Please contact your advisor for more information.

While we continuously expand our extensive course equivalency data, we don’t have equivalencies established for every course from every other institution. As a result, there are times in which a transfer course may need to be evaluated by your academic advisor to determine if it is sufficient to fulfill a particular degree requirement. It’s possible a course description or syllabus will be needed in order for the advisor to complete an evaluation. See “My transfer courses aren’t showing on my degree audit.” for more information.

Additionally, sometimes an audit may need to be manually changed to allow a course to count toward a specific requirement. If a course shows on your degree audit, but isn’t applying to a specific requirement as expected, please contact your advisor.

No. A four-year plan shows a suggestion for course sequencing, or when you should take which courses needed to complete your degree. A degree audit shows your progress toward completing the requirements for your specific degree/major/minor, including certification requirements. We recommend meeting with an academic advisor for course sequencing information.

The degree audit (sometimes referred to as a degree plan) is an official document prepared in the office of the student’s academic dean that lists courses completed, courses to be completed, proficiency examinations and all other requirements for a particular degree program.

An online degree audit may be official if the audit has been evaluated by an advisor. The audit will include a statement near the top indicating whether the audit has been evaluated or if it is not yet official. For additional information, please reference the Online Degree Audit website.

Note: “What-if” audits have not been evaluated and are considered unofficial.

Yes. While the degree audit will make it easier and quicker to make sure you have completed all degree requirements, it will not notify the university that you are graduating. For information about applying for graduation, please visit Apply for Degree Conferral/Graduation.

You can print your degree audit from the printable (Audit PDF) format or the interactive online (Web Audit) format.

To print a copy of the Audit PDF, run or view an audit with the Audit PDF format. You will need to change the Advanced Settings to select the Audit PDF format.

1. On the ‘Audit Results’ tab, click the “Print” icon in the PDF preview window.
2. Follow the usual steps for printing from your device, such as choosing which printer to print to, how many copies to print, and whether to print in black and white or in color.

To print a copy of the interactive online audit, run or view an audit with the Web Audit format.

1. On the ‘Audit Results’ tab, click the “Print Preview” button on the left side of the page below the program name. A printer-friendly version of the Web Audit will open.
   
2. Open the ‘Print’ dialog box. The steps vary based on the device you are using.
   
   • If on a desktop or laptop computer, you can use keyboard shortcuts: For Windows, press ctrl + P. For Mac, press cmd + P.
   • In your web browser, you can open the settings menu (often three dots or three vertical lines). On desktop or laptop browsers, you should see the option to “Print” in that menu. If you’re using a mobile device, you may need to click “Share” to find the option to print.
3. Follow the usual steps for printing from your device, such as choosing which printer to print to, how many copies to print, and whether to print in black and white or in color.

When printing the Web Audit format of your degree audit rather than the Audit PDF, please be aware that it won’t include the charts at the top of the audit or the status icons that show at a glance if a requirement or sub-requirement is complete. There could be some other formatting issues as well.

You can run an audit for your declared program and check any unfulfilled requirements. If there are specific courses you can take to complete a requirement, they will be listed after “SELECT FROM.”

Tip: You can compare your degree audit to your program in the UNT Catalog to double-check that you are choosing the right courses. Make sure you’re viewing the catalog version that matches your catalog year. For example, if your catalog year on your degree audit is Fall 2024, change the catalog version to 2024-2025.

Currently the “Planned” status for courses is not used by the degree audit system at UNT. The only courses that will appear on your degree audit are completed courses and In-Progress courses, which include UNT courses that you are enrolled in for the current term or an upcoming term.

If your minor is part of your declared program, then you can just run an audit for your declared program and your minor requirements will also be shown. If you want to focus on just the requirements for your minor, you can expand the minor requirement section(s) and close any other sections.

It is not possible to run a “what-if” audit for a minor. This is because minors do not have separate audits. Instead, minors are added to a degree program audit, which allows the audit system to correctly count courses toward major or minor requirements. For questions about minor requirements, please refer to the UNT Catalog or contact your academic advisor. Remember that courses typically can only be used to fulfill either a major requirement or a minor requirement, but not both.

You can see all the courses you’ve taken that are being used for your degree audit in a few places. One way is to look at the ‘Course History’ tab on your audit. You can run a new audit or view an audit you’ve previously run, and then click the ‘Course History’ tab. Every course you’ve taken that has been added to your academic record will be listed in the table at the bottom of the page.

You can also see the courses you’ve taken on your degree audit itself. At the very bottom of your audit, there should be a requirement called “COURSES BY ACADEMIC YEAR”. This requirement is informational only. It shows the hours you’ve earned, any hours that are in progress, your overall GPA, and each course you’ve taken in the order you took them, except for a few types of courses. Certain courses, such as developmental courses, may be pulled into other areas of your audit instead.

To view just your transfer courses, you can go to the ‘Courses’ tab, which has 2 options. The ‘Home’ tab shows transfer courses that have been posted and articulated for UNT, with the information that appears on the audit and your transcript, such as the UNT-evaluated course number. The ‘Transfer’ tab shows courses that have been transferred to UNT, with the same information as the source institution, such as the original course number.

Go to UNT Degree Audit and log in with your UNT student email and password.

Make sure you’re using the correct login information—your UNT student email (ending in @my.unt.edu) and password that you use to log in to your UNT EagleConnect email. Check for anything that could cause you to type your login incorrectly, such as having caps lock turned on or your phone adding a space at the end of your email or password.

Note: If you are a student employee, you may need to open a new private or incognito window or clear cache and cookies before going to the degree audit website when using a work computer. Otherwise, you may receive an error when you log in. As a student employee, you have student access permissions and employee access permissions for different UNT websites. Using a private or incognito window, or clearing cache and cookies, allows the degree audit system to use your student access instead of your employee access.

If you are also having trouble accessing other UNT systems, like myUNT, Canvas, or your UNT EagleConnect email, please contact the UNT Helpdesk.

If you are an incoming student, your access may not have been granted yet. See "When will I get access to my online degree audit?" for information about when access is granted to new students.

If you are still having difficulty accessing just the online degree audit, please contact the Registrar’s Office for assistance.

Please identify the specific issue that is occurring. After reviewing the information in this guide and following the recommendations, if your audit still isn’t working, please contact your academic advisor or the Registrar’s Office.

Try the following troubleshooting steps:

• Clear your web browser’s cache and cookies. For instructions, visit AITS Support.
• Use a private or incognito web browser.
• Use a different web browser to access your degree audit. For example, if you’re using Safari, try using Chrome instead.
• Use a different device. For example, if you are using a phone, try using a laptop or desktop computer instead.

If you are still getting an error, please contact your academic advisor or the Registrar’s Office for assistance.

If you are in an undergraduate program:

• If your declared program, catalog year, or minor is incorrect, you will need to contact your academic advisor to have the information updated.

If you are in a graduate program:

• Your program may not have an online audit yet. In this case, your program will be “TOULOUSE GRADUATE SCHOOL” [Program Code: “GS NOAUDIT”]. After your program has been added to the online degree audit system, your declared program will be updated.
• Depending on when your program was initially created, your catalog year and therefore your degree requirements on your audit may be different. For a list of graduate audits available in the online degree audit system, please refer to the Graduate Program Information page. Please refer to the UNT Catalog and contact your graduate advisor if you have any questions about your degree requirements.
• If your declared program, catalog year, or minor is incorrect, you will need to contact your academic advisor to have the information updated.

If your degree audit shows that you earned a grade that does not match the official grade for that course as reflected on your official transcript, please contact the Registrar’s Office for assistance. However, if you believe the official grade is incorrect, you will need to contact the instructor of record for your course.

Your GPA may vary between your degree audit and your unofficial transcript for several reasons:

• There are multiple types of GPAs: Semester GPA, UNT Cumulative GPA, Overall GPA, and Major GPA.
  • Your UNT Cumulative GPA is used for both Academic Standing and for Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) for financial aid eligibility.
  • Which GPA is used for honors? It depends. For example, undergraduate students can have two different GPA Honors: Semester Honors, which are awarded for the fall and spring semesters, and Latin Honors, which are awarded when you graduate. Your semester GPA is used for semester honors, and your overall GPA (UNT and transfer hours combined) is used to determine your eligibility to graduate with honors.
• Timing can result in differences between your audit and your unofficial transcript or myUNT. When official grades are being processed at the end of the term, your audit may use unofficial grades while myUNT and your unofficial transcript won’t update until grades are officially posted.
• Differences between your degree audit and unofficial transcript or myUNT may be because they process some things slightly differently. These differences can be caused by repeat courses, course duplications, or remedial or developmental work.

Graduate students:

• Your degree audit may show a different type of GPA from your unofficial transcript and/or myUNT, such as showing your Overall GPA rather than your UNT Cumulative GPA.
• Your audit may have been run with undergraduate advanced settings, resulting in some information being processed differently. When running an audit for a graduate program, please remember to change the ‘COM’ setting to “GRADF - Grad Career - Future Term”.

For more information about GPAs, visit About Your GPA.

If you have any questions about your GPA(s) or differences between your audit, unofficial transcript, or myUNT, please contact your academic advisor.

Differences between your degree audit and unofficial transcript or myUNT may be because they process some things slightly differently. These differences can be caused by repeat courses, in-progress course duplications, or remedial or developmental work. Students pursuing a second bachelor's degree may also see a difference in hours.

When running an audit for a graduate program, you must change the Advanced Settings. Remember to change the ‘COM’ setting to “GRADF - Grad Career - Future Term”. Running a graduate audit with the “WEB - Web Default - Future Terms” COM setting may show inaccurate information.

If you have any questions about differences between your degree audit, unofficial transcript, and/or myUNT, please contact your academic advisor.

First, please make sure you have submitted all your official transcripts and allow time for processing. Do not send multiple copies of the same transcript because that can delay processing.

Search for the courses on the ‘Course History’ tab of your degree audit or on your unofficial transcript. You can use ctrl + F (Windows), cmd + F (Mac), or Find in Page (mobile browser) to search for the course number. Because it may be displayed differently, you should try searching for the course both with and without a space between the course prefix and number. For example, try searching for both “ENGL 1310” and “ENGL1310”.

If it has been a while since transcripts were submitted, or if some courses are showing but not others from the same term, please contact the Registrar’s Office for assistance.

Note: Certain types of courses are not automatically posted to your academic record:

• Certain prior learning and technical credit is posted by advisor request only. For more information, refer to the Types of Courses page.
• Graduate transfer credit is posted by request only. Please contact your advisor for more information.

The most common reason your audit may show a transfer course matched a UNT course, but your unofficial transcript shows that course is unmatched is because your advisor “plugged in” the course. This means that they manually changed your audit to allow a course to count toward a specific requirement. Advisors sometimes determine that a transfer course with no direct match can be used to fulfill a requirement, so they plug the course into the appropriate area in your audit. However, because the course isn’t exactly like a course that UNT offers, your unofficial transcript will still display the course transferred without a direct match.

For example, if you took a Chinese Popular Music course at another school, it would not directly match a UNT course. However, your advisor may determine that the course is similar to Global Pop: Music, Media, and Society (MUET 2000), and manually plug the course into the Language, Philosophy and Culture core requirement on your audit. In this example, the transfer course would have a match on your audit but not on your unofficial transcript.

Please be aware that when an advisor plugs in a transfer course with no match to a requirement on your audit, they are allowing that course to count toward, or fulfill, that requirement. The course will still count toward your total hours and GPA as normal. If you have any questions about differences between your degree audit and unofficial transcript, please contact your academic advisor.

The degree audit system reads almost everything top down, including requirements and course history. In the case of requirements, the audit system processes or tries to fulfill each requirement in order starting from the top. Your course history is the information used to fulfill the requirements.

The audit system starts running your audit by checking the first program requirement and checking if the first course you took fulfills any portion of the requirement. It then checks your other courses, in the order they were taken, until the first requirement is fulfilled. Then the audit system repeats that process for the next requirement and so on, until either all requirements are fulfilled or all courses taken have been applied to a requirement.

In some cases, the degree audit may not automatically recognize that a course can fulfill a requirement. Your advisor may need to plug in your courses to the appropriate requirement. For example, the degree audits for Integrative Studies B.A. and B.S. programs don’t automatically plug courses into the three field requirements.

For some requirements, your advisor may be able to set up your specific degree audit to allow applicable courses to be plugged into the field requirements. For other requirements, your advisor may need to plug in the specific course number.

If any courses aren’t being applied to your program requirements as expected, it is best to contact your academic advisor for assistance.

Log in to the degree audit system and make sure your catalog year and declared program are correct. If either your declared program or catalog year are incorrect, you should contact your academic advisor for assistance.

For undergraduate-level transfer credit:

If the transfer course is supposed to be equivalent to a specific UNT course:

• To check what UNT courses match courses you’ve taken at another school, you can use Transferology, an interactive course research tool that lets you easily input your completed courses to see what else is needed to fulfill bachelor’s degree requirements.
• If you previously attended a public school in Texas, you can check the UNT Catalog to make sure the transfer course is equivalent to the UNT course you expect. Because a new version of the UNT Catalog is published every year, it’s important to make sure you’re checking the catalog for the right year. In the Catalog Navigation (left sidebar or top of the page, depending on how large or small your screen is), go to the Texas Common Course Numbering System (TCCNS) chart page. Here, you can search for the UNT course and its TCCNS equivalent. You can also click on the UNT course to view the course description. Any TCCNS options for that course will be listed at the top of the course description.
• If the transfer course is not shown as an option in Transferology or as a TCCNS option for the UNT course in the UNT Catalog for your catalog year, then it is not an official option for that course. However, some departments may have courses that they have approved to substitute a course or requirement in your degree program. Your advisor may need to manually apply courses to the appropriate requirement.

Other things to check:

• Run a new audit for your declared program. Check if the requirement or sub-requirement is already fulfilled with another course. For example, the UNT Core Communication requirement has two sub-requirements, and ENGL 1310 is only an option to fulfill the first sub-requirement. The audit doesn’t apply any other courses to already filled requirements or sub-requirements.
• Check the grade earned for the courses on the ‘Course History’ tab, and then check the UNT Catalog to confirm if the grade is high enough to meet the requirement.

If you still aren’t sure why your transfer course isn’t being applied to your degree requirements as expected, please contact your academic advisor for assistance.

For graduate-level transfer credit:

There are a few things you can check:

• Your advisor may need to approve adding the transfer course. If it has been approved, your advisor may need to manually apply the course to the appropriate requirement.
• If the transfer course starts with “TRAN9”, it is unevaluated transfer credit. Contact your advisor regarding any unevaluated credit on your audit.
• The grade may be too low for a particular requirement. Check the grade earned for the course on the ‘Course History’ tab, and then check the UNT Catalog to confirm if the grade is high enough to meet the requirement.
• The course may be ‘caught’ somewhere else on the audit. Double-check that the course is in the “GRADUATE-LEVEL COURSES NOT USED IN MAJOR” section, rather than another section of your audit.
• Depending on when your program was initially created, your catalog year and therefore your degree requirements on your audit may be different. Therefore, your credit may apply to a different requirement than expected. Please refer to the UNT Catalog and contact your graduate advisor if you have any questions about your degree requirements.

Because your degree audit is specific to you, your audit will most likely be different from anyone else’s audit. There are many reasons your degree audit may vary from someone else’s audit. Your programs could be different catalog years and therefore may have different requirements. You may have taken different courses or taken courses in a different order. You may have received different grades in some courses, which may or may not be able to fulfill certain requirements.

If you are a double major, you will see both majors in the ‘Run Declared Programs’ section on the Request an Audit page. Each major is shown on its own row in the table.

Audits can only show requirements for one program. If you have more than one declared program, when you run an audit for your declared programs, more than one audit result will be produced. For questions about double majors, including how courses may double-dip with requirements for both majors, it is recommended to contact your academic advisor(s).

Undergraduate students are encouraged to make use of the online degree audit system to help with checking your progress toward completing your degree requirements, seeing how other programs may work for you, and staying on track to graduate. If you have any questions about your degree audit, you should contact your academic advisor for assistance.

Note: The online degree audit system is not available for current TAMS students. Once admitted to an undergraduate degree-seeking program (or an eligible graduate program), students who were formerly part of TAMS will be able to use the online degree audit system.

Graduate students now have access to the online degree audit system. Currently, some graduate programs have online audits, while others do not have online audits yet. Additional graduate programs will be added to the online degree audit system over time.

If your graduate program does not have an online audit yet, your program will be “TOULOUSE GRADUATE SCHOOL” [Program Code: “GS   NOAUDIT”]. After your program has been added to the online degree audit system, your declared program will be updated.

For a list of graduate audits available in the online degree audit system, please refer to the Graduate Program Information page.