Academic dishonesty is a serious offense because it diminishes the quality of scholarship and makes accurate evaluation of student progress impossible.
The Academic Procedures and Regulations follow the regulations of the Faculty of Graduate Studies of Mahidol University.
Evaluation of a student’s achievement in a course is done at the end of the trimester and recorded using the following letter grade symbols:
Grade
|
Score
|
Achievement
|
GPA
|
---|---|---|---|
A
|
90 – 100
|
Excellent
|
4.00
|
B+
|
85 – 89
|
Very Good
|
3.50
|
B
|
80 – 84
|
Good
|
3.00
|
C+
|
75 – 79
|
Fairly Good
|
2.50
|
C
|
70 – 74
|
Fair
|
2.00
|
D+
|
65 – 69
|
Poor
|
1.50
|
D
|
60 – 64
|
Very Poor
|
1.00
|
F
|
≤ 59
|
Fail
|
0.00
|
Other letter grades, without credit points are assigned for course work as follows:
S Satisfactory
U Unsatisfactory
I Incomplete
P In progress
W Withdrawal
AU Audit (no credit granted)
X No report from the instructor
A student must receive a grade of B or higher in any core or required course and a grade of C or higher in the elective courses. In the case that a student receives a grade lower than B in a core or required course, the student must repeat that course with a grade of B and cannot receive a grade higher than B. If a student receives a grade lower than C for an elective course, the student can repeat the course or take a different course, but cannot receive a grade higher than B in either the repeated or different course.
An “F” grade is given according to the following conditions:
The “I” grade is assigned to students in the following cases:
To change the “I” grade, students are required to do one of the following:
Academic dishonesty is a serious offense because it diminishes the quality of scholarship and makes accurate evaluation of student progress impossible.
Cheating
Any of the following actions will be considered cheating:
Fabrication
Fabrication is the inventing or making up of data, research results, information or procedures.
Falsification
Falsification means altering or falsifying information, as in the following:
Multiple Submissions
Multiple submissions entail the handing in of substantial portions of the same academic work, including oral reports, for credit more than once without prior authorization by the lecture
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the representation of words or ideas of someone else as one’s own in any academic exercise and includes the following:
Note: Borrowed facts or information obtained in one’s research or reading must be acknowledged unless they are recognized as common knowledge.
Disciplinary Procedures for Academic Dishonesty
Charges of academic dishonesty shall be handled by the Registrar who will determine the extent of academic dishonesty and impose any academic punishment on the student, including suspension or expulsion from the academic program of study.
The Registrar makes a written recommendation to suspend or expel a student from the college to the MUIC Dean. Within four weeks of receiving such a recommendation, the MUIC Dean, acting on behalf of the Executive Committee, shall issue a written decision.
Any form of academic dishonesty will usually lead to one or a combination of the following:
A student’s status will be terminated according to the following conditions and with the expressed approval of the University President:
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