No matter what your major is, you’re going to have to work hard if you want to make it on the dean’s list.

Trish Sellers, administrative aide to Dean Romualdas Kasuba in the College of Engineering, said it’s pretty difficult to be on the list.

Students in the College of Engineering have to be taking a minimum class load of 12 credit hours and maintain a 3.5 GPA, she said.

She said in fall 2002, there were 128 on the list.

The list basically shows that the students are in the upper GPA of the school. Certificates of achievement are awarded, and the names of the students are given to their hometown newspapers for publication, she said.

Not all colleges have the same requirements in regard to who is and isn’t on the list.

Sue Doederlein, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said students must have a minimum of 12 semester hours and have a term GPA of 3.75 or higher. Eight percent of liberal arts and sciences students achieved this for fall 2002.

Sandi Kuchynka, director of academic advising for the College of Health and Human Sciences, said roughly 10 percent of students were on the list for fall 2002, meeting the requirements of taking at least 12 credit hours and having a 3.75 GPA for the term.

Margee Myles, director of advising for the College of Education, said students need to have a 3.75 GPA and must take a minimum course load of 12 credit hours to be on the list.

The accomplishment catches the attention of employers, and students can use it as a tool to place them above someone else, Myles said.

It is incredibly difficult to achieve recognition on the list, Kuchynka said.

“Students taking 12 credit hours, that would mean three A’s and a B,” she said. “So, they would have to be excellent students.”

Myles agreed.

“A 3.75 is pretty darn close to perfect,” she said. “I think it’s pretty challenging for folks.”