Making an Appointment with your CLAS Academic Advising Center

Students are able to make an appointment by stopping into our Center, located in C-1-140 Mackinac Hall, or by calling us at 616-331-8585, or set up appointments online.

Making an Appointment with your Faculty Advisor

Once you know who has been assigned as your faculty advisor, there are a few ways to schedule an appointment. You may call your faculty member's office to schedule an appointment, send an email, or stop in during walk-in hours. If you are not certain of when your faculty advisor holds walk-in hours, contact the major department and they will be able to provide you with that information.

Checklist

• Are you willing to take spring/summer courses before and after year 4?:PSM 650, STA 518, CIS 661 are offered in spring/summer
• Are you willing to pay grad rate for UG courses?:Students pay UG rate until they accumulate 12 grad credits.
• Ideal time to apply to combined degree program is during year 3.
• You should try to avoid taking STA 418, in favor of taking 518. STA 426 is required for DS minor..

Undergrad/Grad shared course policies

• Up to 12 credit hours can be dual counted (shared) in both undergrad and grad programs
• One of STA 518 or STA 526 may count as both an biostatistics master's course and an undergraduate statistics elective.
• One of STA 518 or STA 526, not previously used, may count as both an biostatistics master's course and as free undergraduate credit hours.
• CIS 661 as a biostatistics master's requirement and either in the application cognate or as free undergraduate credit hours.
• CMB 610 as a biostatistics master's requirement and either in the application cognate or as free undergraduate credit hours.
• STA 610 (biostat/applied stat section) may count as a required biostatistics master's course and as free undergraduate credit hours.
• STA 628 may count as both biostatistics master's credit and as free undergraduate credit hours.
• PSM 650 may count as a biostatistics master's requirement and either in the undergraduate application cognate or as free undergraduate credit hours.