Two ways to apply to graduate in Trailhead:

Select Student Services card

• Select the Student Services card
• Select Student Self-Service
• Click window icon in top left corner
• Select Student
• Select Student Records
• Select Apply to Graduate
• IMPORTANT NOTE: If applying to graduate in a future term, just click “Submit” on the Curriculum Term Selection screen since that screen is showing the registration term rather than the graduation term. Once you submit, you will then be able to select the degree and the graduation term.

Select Banner Self-Service 8 card (note you can get to this card quicker using my.mines.edu)

• Select Student tab
• Click the Student Records
• Select Apply to Graduate
  
• IMPORTANT NOTE: If applying to graduate in a future term, just click “Submit” on the Curriculum Term Selection screen since that screen is showing the registration term rather than the graduation term. Once you submit, you will then be able to select the degree and the graduation term.

“View Graduation Application” in Trailhead:

• To see if a graduation application exists for that degree follow instructions above but instead of “Apply to Graduate,” select “View Graduation Application.”
• NOTE: If after performing the steps above, you receive a “no curricula available for this graduation application” error, that means that a graduation application may already exist for that degree or you have not turned in the Degree Audit form. If you are applying to graduate for a certificate or MS thesis degree, then a degree audit form must first be processed prior to being able to apply to graduate. If PHD degree, then the Degree Audit form and the Admission to Candidacy form must first be processed prior to being able to apply to graduate.

All Grad Students – How to Access Degree Works to view Degree Evaluation:

Students need to check their degree evaluation every semester to monitor their progress toward degree completion.

1. Log into Trailhead
2. Select from the Degree Works card on the homepage. (Note, if you get an “access denied” message, that means most likely you had selected the “Degree Works for Advisors” card since that is only for faculty use.)
3. Select View My Degree Audit
4. Select Degree Works
5. Select the degree you are enrolled in that you wish to evaluate
6. Please note for certificates, you do not need to generate a degree evaluation since they have not been scribed yet in Degree Works, so you may receive an error message. The Office of Graduate Studies will be checking to make sure that certificate students have completed all the required courses per the grad catalog before awarding the certificate.
7. For students admitted prior to Fall 2020, please select CAPP for your degree evaluation. Select Degree Evaluation, then on the curriculum screen, click on the words “Generate New Evaluation” at the bottom of the page, then on the next screen select the program you wish to generate by selecting the radio button next to it and click on the “Generate Request” button.
8. NOTE: For students in the following degree programs (Hydrology, Space Resources, Mining Engineering Management, Robotics, Additive Manufacturing) or if you see 50% or less for Degree Progress in Degree Works, that means that you may need to use CAPP instead of Degree Works since your degree may not be scribed in Degree Works yet. This applies to MS-NT, MS Thesis and PHD students. If you are not seeing your degree evaluation in Degree Works and not seeing it in CAPP, please email Roxane Aungst at raungst@mines.edu and include your CWID in the email.
9. NOTE: If you are in a Master’s Non-Thesis, have applied to graduate, have courses in progress in your last semester and you are checking your degree evaluation in Degree Works, you should see 98% of requirements met. If you do not see 98% then you most likely need to submit the Master’s Non-Thesis Course Exception form in order to apply any course substitutions, double counting (if applicable), and transfer credits (if applicable). If you see 98%, then your degree evaluation is good and it will change to 100% after grades are posted and end of term processing is completed for that term.