GRADUATING FROM THE CIEP
Students who meet one of the following conditions are eligible to graduate from the CIEP at the end of the
quarter. You can only graduate once in either the Campus or the Downtown Program, not in both.
1. Successfully complete eight hours of upper division courses (Pronunciation, American Culture, Advanced
Conversation, and all evening classes are counted as upper division only if you are in level 5 in all of your
classes at the time you take them).
2. Successfully completed seven hours of Level 5 courses in the Campus IEP and one UW undergraduate course
of three credits or more.
3. Successfully completed one quarter of Advanced in the Downtown IEP or the Intensive Business English
Program (IBEP) and four hours of Level 5 courses in the Campus IEP.
NOTE: Some certificate programs offered by UW Educational Outreach, for example BUSIP, do not count
toward graduation from the CIEP because they are not primarily English language programs.