How to use the degree requirement shortfall calculator
What holds up a degree audit is usually not the credit total but the requirement categories. A finished major core does nothing if general education electives are six credits short. Enter each category your catalog defines on its own line and this page builds a table of what is short and what is over, then works out how many credits you genuinely still need.
A category shortfall is the requirement minus the credits earned, and credits equal to the requirement read as met with a shortfall of zero. The minimum still to take is the larger of the summed category shortfalls and the shortfall against the degree total, because overloading one bucket cannot fill an empty one. Whether overflow counts toward the total is your choice.
Category names and requirement figures differ by school, program and catalog year, so nothing is built in. This page reports shortfalls by category only; it does not diagnose whether the credit mix is lopsided by share, and it does not plan a term schedule.
Frequently asked questions
There is no line limit. List the categories your catalog uses, such as major core, major electives, general education core, general education electives and free electives, one per line, and rename them if your program words them differently.
The category figure adds up only the buckets that are short, while the overall figure compares the degree total with your earned credits. Overloading one category can fill the overall total while individual buckets stay short, which splits the two numbers.
It decides whether credits earned beyond a category requirement still count toward the degree total. Counted, the overflow is added to the total; not counted, each category contributes only up to its own requirement.