How many credits remain in my degree plan?

How we calculated this

Required credits minus the earned credits you chose to count, floored at zero so an over-completed requirement never shows as a negative number. Using the example values above (120 required, 87 earned, in-progress excluded), 33 credits remain.

Whether to count in-progress credits is a real choice, not a technicality: counting them shows your best-case remaining total assuming everything currently enrolled is completed, while excluding them shows a more conservative number based only on what has actually posted to your transcript.

Limitations

This is not a degree audit. It does not know which of your credits actually satisfy your specific degree requirements (major, minor, general education, electives) or whether a credit double-counts across two requirements at your school; enter the required and earned totals your own advising office or degree audit already gave you.

Common mistakes

A common error is entering your total credits attempted instead of credits earned, which overstates progress if you have ever withdrawn from or failed a course. Another is forgetting to update "required credits" after a program or catalog-year change shifted your total requirement; recheck this number against your current degree audit whenever your major or catalog year changes.

Frequently asked

What if I have already met or exceeded my requirement?

The result shows 0 remaining rather than a negative number; a negative "remaining" credit count is not a meaningful concept.

Should transfer credits count as "earned"?

Only if your school's degree audit accepted them toward this specific requirement; include them in "credits already earned" if so, and leave them out if your school has not yet accepted or evaluated them.

Why does this ask about in-progress credits separately?

Because "in progress" is not the same as "earned": a course you are currently failing still counts as in-progress until it posts, so treating it as guaranteed could overstate your real progress.

Does this account for repeated or forgiven courses?

No; enter your earned-credit total exactly as your school's degree audit currently counts it, including any repeat or forgiveness policy already applied.

Next decision

Once you know how many credits remain, see Credits Per Term or Terms Remaining to turn that into a pace or a timeline.

For how these three questions connect into a full plan, read Planning Your Degree Pace.