College of Graduate and Professional Studies

To change a major, students must get the approval of the Education Center Director or assigned faculty advisor. Admission requirements for each major are available from the Education Center Director. A student who changes a major is subject to the program requirements in effect at the time of the major change.

When a student changes his or her major, all transcripts, including the Trine University transcript, are re-evaluated. When changing majors, courses with grades of less than a “C” can be dropped from the GPA calculation if one of the following two conditions is met:

When changing majors from one category of degrees to another category as follows:
Category 1: Business degrees

Category 2: Arts & Sciences degrees

Category 3: Engineering and Technology degrees
When changing from a four-year program to a two-year program or from a two-year program to a four-year program
Additional conditions:
- If courses are not required in the new major.
- Dropped courses may not be repeated in the new major.
- In cases where a student is readmitted to a degree program in which he or she was previously enrolled, all grades earned during enrollment in that degree program must be included in the cumulative grade point average.