Honors
Graduating with Honors
Students in CLAS who major in biology, botany or zoology and who maintain an upper division GPA above 3.50 will graduate with honors ("cum laude"). Students can view their upper division GPA online via their ISIS degree audit.
Graduating with High or Highest Honors
Students in CLAS who major in biology, botany or zoology who wish to graduate with high honors ("magna cum laude") or highest honors ("summa cum laude") must have an upper division GPA of over 3.5 and must submit an approved undergraduate thesis. This thesis must report on original research conducted over at least two semesters of Individual Study/Research (with a total of at least 6 credit hours).
Any student who plans to submit a thesis must contact a Biology Advisor and the Biology Undergraduate Coordinator before the semester in which the student intends to graduate.
The thesis should be submitted to the Department of Biology Undergraduate Coordinator and to the CLAS Academic Advising Center no less than four weeks before the end of the semester in which the student intends to graduate. Prior to this submission deadline, the student must give the thesis to the student's faculty research mentor, whose obligation is to read and evaluate the work and thesis and assign a grade and an honors rating (High Honors or Highest Honors), based on the mentor's assessment of its merit.
The thesis copy submitted to the Biology Undergraduate Coordinator must be in electronic format (preferably as a single PDF file) and should be submitted via email to biouc-l@lists.ufl.edu.
The Honors Program provides specific requirements and guidelines for thesis submission.