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College of Education

Re-entry with Compact Benefits

A student who was previously dismissed from Northern Illinois University who subsequently earns an A.A. or A.S. degree from a baccalaureate-oriented Illinois public community college qualifies for automatic re-entry if the student meets the following criteria:

  • the student was dismissed from Northern with fewer than
    sixty semester hours of credit;
  • the student will have completed no more than eighty total
    semester hours (NIU and transfer) prior to re-entry;
  • the student was not a visiting or non-degree student at the
    time of dismissal; and
  • the student has been away from NIU for at least one
    fall or spring semester

Students who qualify for re-entry under this policy will return on final academic probation; their cumulative grade point average will begin again, but they must establish a new grade point average of at least a 2.0 or they will automatically
be dismissed.