Benefits 

• Allows students to obtain graduate credit while still an undergraduate
• Gives students the opportunity to complete both a BS and MS in Finance in 4-4.5 years
• May take up to 18 hours (half required for the MSF) while enrolled as undergraduate
• Can take up to the maximum of 15 hours while enrolled in the Seniors for Graduate Credit Program
• Remain eligible to receive TOPS for eight semesters as long as TOPS requirements are met
  
  

Requirements

• Graduate credits cannot be applied toward a Bachelor’s degree
• Completion of at least 60 semester hours of credit with a GPA of at least 3.5 for all LSU coursework
• Maintain the required GPA for the Graduate Credit for Seniors Program (3.0)
• Enrollment in the Seniors for Graduate Credit program in the graduating semester of undergraduate degree
• Acceptance requires approval from the following:
  
  Advisory committee consisting of 3 professors
  Chair of the undergraduate department in which the students is enrolled
  Dean of the college in which the students is enrolled
  Chair of the department in which the student proposes to pursue his or her master’s degree
  
• Forms must be submitted prior to the last day to add for that semester