The top 20% of each graduating class is recognized as graduating with University Honors. Honors designations are determined by GPA cutoffs established by the University such that:

• The top 4% of a graduating class receives "Highest Honors."
• The top 10% of a graduating class receives "High Honors."
• The top 20% of a graduating class receives "Honors."

University Honors will be announced during the CNS graduation ceremony based on current GPAs. These do not include current semester grades, however, and therefore are not official. Official honors designations are calculated and included on official transcripts after all grades have been submitted at the end of the semester.

Honors are calculated for the spring graduating class each May. The spring criteria is used for the subsequent summer and fall graduations.

For Fall 2009 graduation, honors will be determined using the following criteria:

To be eligible to graduate with honors, an undergraduate must have completed at least sixty semester hours in residence at The University of Texas at Austin. Courses taken pass/fail are counted in the sixty-hour minimum, but only letter grades are used to determine the grade point average. Letter grades earned through credit-by-examination do not count toward the grade point average used to calculate honors.