How to Do a Final Degree Audit

• Read about Degree Audits before beginning the process.
• Review student's audit.
• Refer to the Electronic Degree and Diploma Application (E-DDA) portal statuses as a reference.

• Check the classes listed on the final degree audit with those on your department's formatted departmental degree check/ audit.

• Deficiencies may include:
  • Failure to meet the lower- or upper-division requirements for the major
  • A GPA that is below the minimum GPA requirement
  • Transfer course work that needs to be petitioned
  • Transcripts that need to be sent to UCSD from other institutions
  • Existence of an Incomplete grade
  • Unacceptable grades in each class (if department requires letter grade of C- or better)
  • Unapproved overlap in a double major
• Notify the student of any deficiencies.
• If there are any deficiencies, double-check the classes in Blink Student/ Class Info or ISIS, and make any necessary corrections to the online audit or e-mail uAchieve at uAchieve@ucsd.edu to update deficiencies.
• Enter "denied" to E-DDA if deficiencies cannot be cleared. See Step 5 for specific E-DDA instructions.

• Verify:
  • Major department residency requirement (if applicable) has been met
  • Transfer coursework has been approved and transcripts from other institutions are noted in TritonLink or ISIS
• Confirm that any conditions/requirements of petitions have been met.
• For double majors:
  • Check to see that courses are the same as those approved on the double major petition
  • Verify that the student completed 10 separate upper-division courses for your department's major

Important: If the audit is blue, it is still possible that all requirements have not been met. It is your responsibility to verify all graduation criteria.

• Follow these steps:
  1. Log in to the Single Sign-On E-DDA portal.
  2. Click DDA E-approval on the left toolbar.
  3. Contact Academic Technology Services at ats@ucsd.edu if you change departments or if "DDA E-approval" does not appear on the left toolbar.
  4. Select Approve uAchieve audits format at the top of the page.
  5. Select E-DDA options beginning under College.
  6. Select Get DDAs that I have requested.
  7. Check all approval/ denial actions/ selections that apply to the student.
  8. Select honors designations where appropriate.
  9. For printing, check Print instead of the "Approve DARS audits" format on the E-DDA index page.