University policy requires students to apply for graduation at the start of their final semester. You should remember that your degree is granted by a college, not a department. Thus the college from which you intend to graduate ultimately determines whether or not you have completed all your degree requirements.
All students should request an official graduation audit of their transcript one year prior to graduation to ensure that all graduation requirements will be met. Students should initiate this audit by contacting the graduation audit officer in their college.
Often times it is discovered during this audit that specific course requirements are missing, which leaves little time for the student to correct deficiencies. Failure to comply with this policy and not receiving an audit until the semester of anticipated graduation may cause unplanned extensions to graduation dates.