All federal student aid programs require that a student maintain satisfactory progress toward completion of the degree program. Satisfactory academic progress is defined as:
- Maintaining a cumulative G.P.A. of at least a 2.0
- Completion of the JD program - 85 credits (88 credits beginning with the Fall 2009 entering class) - as follows:
- Full-time students: must complete the JD program in no more than 4.5 years of consecutive enrollment
- Part-time students: must complete the JD program in no more than 6 years of consecutive enrollment.
* Those students not meeting the criteria outlined above will be ineligible for federal financial aid until the criteria is met.