Grading Policy

Institution's Academic Grading Policy

UNIB's Grading Policy is based on the Grade Point Average Standard (GPA) used by most of Universities in the United States and Puerto Rico:

At the time of enrollment in a study program, the subjects to be taken are registered for the student. The credits enrolled are the total for the program and the student must comply with the term of duration of the academic life. The student cannot enroll in other subjects or credits.

Grades will be expressed in the letters A, B, C, D, or F in a GPA scale. A course is approved with a minimum grade of B in the GPA scale.

At the end of the studies, the student receives a final grading on the program that is based on an average of the scores obtained in the subjects and in the Master Thesis.

Every grade must be justified by the professor, and the student may appeal in writing for a review if they disagree with the final grade received in a subject or in any of the evaluation activities that comprise it. For it, the student has 10 business days after the grade was published. The following is a description of the Grade Review Procedure:

1. In first place, you must contact the professor of the subject and request a review of the final grade received in the subject or in any of the evaluation activities that comprise it. In this same message, the student should explain the reasons of the claim and justify their position in this regard.
   The teacher then has 10 business days, counting from the moment when they receive the request from the student, to perform the review according to the arguments put forward by the student and respond to the student's request.
2. If the professor determines that the appeal is unfounded, the student may request a further review from the program director, who must respond within a maximum of 10 business days.
3. For master's degree programs, if the program director also dismisses the appeal, the student, in the last instance, may submit it to the department director. In the case of doctoral programs, the student may contact the academic Dean.
4. The Department Director (or Director of the Doctoral Programs) will answer the student in a maximum of 20 business days. The decision arising will be final and firm, by agreement between the parties involved or simple majority.

Students have the right to know the grade of an evaluation, as well as the correction methods, before undergoing a reassessment of the same nature in a subject. 

Any special activities included in the study program will be announced in advance to the student.

Standard related to Academic Honesty

• Students must not engage in copying, plagiarism, or falsification of documentation, information, or data.
• Students must not submit false information, change of identity, impersonate or falsify their own or anyone else's identity.

Grading System

The student receives detailed feedback on his/her performance in the evaluation tests carried out, and to grade these evaluations the university uses a system equivalent to the GPA method ("Grade Point Average"). According to the UNIB system, grades are expressed in the letters A, B, C, D, or F.

To obtain the GPA of the program: The points for each subject are multiplied by the number of credits or hours for each subject, added together, and divided by the total credits or hours. The minimum grade at the end of the program must be B (2.50 - 3.49 GPA).

The following shows the equivalence between the values of UNIB quantitative and qualitative grades. It also expresses the GPA method equivalence:

To ratify that grades are awarded fairly and consistently, especially in the case of subjective assessment techniques, all programs have evaluation criteria that the professors must apply to their rubrics. These evaluation criteria (rubric) vary depending on the program and the academic activity being evaluated.

For more information, please refer to our Student Manual: Student Manual UNIB