Yes! Degree Audit is a tool for you and your adviser to use when discussing your current and future course enrollment and academic goals. It does not take the place of your adviser.

Your degree audit is accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from most networked computers. You should review it:

• Before you meet with your academic adviser to discuss course enrollment for an upcoming term
• During meetings with your adviser
• After registration, to ensure that the courses you selected applied to your requirements in the ways you expected
• After your grades for each term are posted, when “in-progress” courses and requirements are reprocessed in the audit as “completed”
• Any time you make a change to your schedule, to review how the change has affected your progress toward fulfillment of academic requirements

After the withdrawal has been processed:

• Any course from which you have withdrawn prior to midterm will be removed from your audit.
• Any course from which you have withdrawn after midterm will appear with a “W” grade in the Insufficient block near the bottom of your worksheet.

The data is refreshed each night. Any changes processed on a given day will be included on your audit the next day.

Your degree audit may not be up to date because:

• You may need to click the refresh button at the top of the page.
• The system may not have been refreshed since a change was made to your student record; information is refreshed nightly.
• Paperwork may still be in process. For example, a form may be processing through a workflow to multiple approvers.

The foreign language requirement for Yale College is complex, and the courses required to complete it vary by student.  Degree Audit cannot always recognize when an L2 or L3 course fulfills an individual student’s distributional requirement in foreign language. Consequently, there may be a delay in the audit’s applying a course to the requirement even after term grades have been recorded.

See #5 of Known Issues below.

Degree Audit does not recognize enrollment credit. As a result, the audit will not apply certain types of courses, even though they can be used to fulfill some milestone requirements. Examples include courses taken Credit/D/Fail and courses from which a student withdrew after midterm, which may count toward first-year, sophomore, and some junior milestones. Degree Audit requires manual intervention to count such courses toward the milestone requirements. For more information and examples, see #2 on the Known Issues list below.

In addition, students whose academic paths depart from completing the standard milestones each year in eight consecutive terms may require manual adjustments to their degree audits. For more information, see #4 on the Known Issues list.

The degree audit places each course using a “best fit” scenario. Multiple possibilities for combinations may exist, and the audit may choose a different configuration than you might have. This does not mean that courses cannot be applied in another configuration; the tool is simply providing you with what it calculates to be the best possible scenario.

Yale Degree Audit occasionally has difficulty optimizing certain types of courses. For more information and examples, see #3 on the Known Issues list.

Yes. Because the distributional milestones for freshman, sophomore, and junior years are cumulative, the audit recognizes that some courses can fulfill a requirement in more than one block. For example, if you have taken only one SO course credit, the audit will apply that course to the SO requirement in all four blocks.

Degree Audit tries to use as many of your courses as possible and to minimize the number in Fallthrough. The program attempts to match all courses to a requirement before reusing a course. For example, a student in a social sciences major will complete many more than two SO credits; the system will use different ones in each block to maximize the number of courses applied to the audit.

Yes. For each incomplete requirement, the audit indicates the number of credits still remaining to complete the requirement, preceded by the red label “Still Needed.”

Yes. You access your degree audit through a secure login with your Yale NetID and password. Your advisers must also login with a Yale NetID and password to see your audit.

Degree Audit is open to all Yale College and Graduate School students, as well as to their advisers, residential college deans, DUSs, and DGSs.

Your degree audit is not an official academic transcript.  Unlike a transcript, your degree audit is an unofficial document provided for your information and convenience. The audit serves as a tool to provide you with helpful and timely information when you are planning your course schedule, discussing your schedule with your adviser, and reviewing your progress toward completing the requirements for the bachelor’s degree. 

Yes. Click the “Save as PDF” button, then open and print the PDF version of the audit. Although you can also click the “Print” button located in the bar at the top of the page, the PDF will produce a more readable document.

Tip: The Class History, accessible by clicking the three dots at the top right corner of the page, also provides a more readable document. 

If you have questions after reviewing the FAQs, please contact the University Registrar’s Office at registrar@yale.edu or your Residential College Dean’s Office.  Be sure to include “Degree Audit” somewhere in the subject line.

Although the University Registrar’s Office has tried to make sure that your degree audit is correct, it is difficult to predict every unique situation or problem. If you believe the data in your degree audit is not appearing correctly, please send an e-mail to registrar@yale.edu that specifies what information you believe is wrong, including “Degree Audit” in the subject line.

The Registrar’s Office can only enter Degree Audit exceptions when the audit is incorrect or when a published policy requires an adjustment. If the audit is applying courses accurately according to the YCPS and the approved major or certificate requirements, we cannot make changes based solely on a department’s preferred way of organizing a student’s courses.