Students are required to register each semester during the assigned registration period. They select courses in consultation with their academic advisors who approve their academic load before registration.
Courses are calculated in credit hours. Each course carries a certain number of credits that are awarded after the successful completion of that course. Credit hours usually equal the number of hours spent in class per week and also reflect the workload or level of difficulty of a course.
Academic regulations govern the relationship between the university and its students. These regulations reflects the university’s effort to build reliable students who are fully aware of the academic system implemented in their university and responsible for tracing such regulations throughout their study period at MIU
To graduate, a student must pass all required courses and achieve a minimum of 2.00 in both the cumulative and the major GPAs.
Students with a cumulative average of 3.6 or above at graduation are granted a BA/BSc with 1st class honors. Students with a cumulative average between 3.4 and 3.6 at graduation are granted a BA/BSc with 2nd class honors.
A student has to pay his/her tuition fees before the beginning of the semester. Scholarships are valid for the first year only and any later discount will be determined upon the student’s academic performance which is directly reflected on his/her cumulative GPA Students must pay attention and read the Message sent weekly via e-mail to all the university students .
The academic year is divided into two main semesters, with exams during each semester. A student cannot be promoted to the next year unless he /she succeeds in all faculty courses. The student who fails or exceeds the percentage of absences in more than two courses has to repeat the academic year, accordingly, he /she cannot join the summer semester. If a student exceeds the percentage of allowed absence or fails in two courses maximum, he /she can register in the summer semester. If a student fails in one or in both courses he registered in for the summer he / she will repeat the whole academic year. A student has to achieve a minimum GPA of 2.00 before being promoted to year four.