Forms and Petitions

Graduate Studies Forms

Form NameThis Form is Used to:Submit Completed Form to:
GS-8: Graduate Student/Post-Baccalaureate Status Change
  • Change a student's classification status from Conditionally Classified to Classified 
  • Advance a doctoral student to candidacy
  • Discontinue a student from a graduate program
  • Place a student on academic probation or place them in good academic standing

College Associate Dean's Office

 

 

 

 

GS-10: Application for Advancement to Candidacy
  • Advance a master's student to candidacy
  • Establish the culminating experience for a master's student
  • Establish a faculty committee for a student completing a thesis or project
Email completed form to records@calstatela.edu and copy (cc) GRC@calstatela.edu, the faculty graduate advisor, and the student
GS-13: Approval Page for Graduate Thesis, Project Report, or Dissertation (link)
  • Approve a student's thesis, project, or dissertation
GRC@calstatela.edu
GS-14: Approval of Thesis or Project Proposal
  • Approve a student's proposal for a thesis or project

Academic Department

*Not all departments require this form. Check with graduate advisor 

GS-15: 4+1 Program Approval*

*Only for use by the College of ECST and BE

  • Change the status of a student admitted into a blended (4+1) program from the B-Career to the G-Career
Email completed form to records@calstatela.edu and copy (cc) GRC@calstatela.edu, the faculty graduate advisor, and the student
Credit By Exam
  • Request permission to receive credit for courses by examination (4000- or 5000-level only)
Academic Department
General Academic Petition for Graduate Requirements
  • Petition review of certain University academic regulations when extenuating circumstances exist
Email the completed form, and all relevant evidence that supports the petition, to the Office of Graduate Studies (gradstudies@calstatela.edu)
Course Validation 
  • Validate an expired course (after General Academic Petition for Graduate Requirements is approved by the Dean of Graduate Studies)

*Instructions for graduate advisors

College Associate Dean's Office
Graduate Credit for Undergraduate Coursework records@calstatela.edu 
Embargo FormDelay the release of a student's thesis, project report, or dissertation to ProQuest for a given period of time GRC@calstatela.edu (submit with the GS-13)

Related Forms

Form NameThis Form is Used to:Submit Completed Form to:
Graduate Continuous Enrollment Form (UNIV 9000 Enrollment Form)
  • Allow a student to maintain their matriculation status to submit their thesis, project report, or dissertation after they have completed all required program coursework and units
PaGE Enrollment Services
Return from Educational Leave (formerly known as Leave of Absence; for graduate students who have not yet advanced to candidacy)
  • Request a leave of up to two semesters, subject to renewal.
Completing the online form submits the request to Records and Enrollment
Leave of Absence Petition
  • Request a leave of absence for a graduate student who has advanced to candidacy
records@calstatela.edu