How to use the double major credit calculator
A second major has to satisfy two requirements at once: the credits that major demands, and the overall credit total your degree needs. Enter the credits your catalog requires for the second major, the credits you have already earned in it, the credits you want counted for both majors together with the cap on that, the total credits required to graduate, and the total credits you have earned so far.
The page compares your double-counting request against the cap first, so any credits above the cap are shown separately as refused. It then adds the allowed double-counted credits to what you have already earned in the second major and subtracts that from the requirement. Finally it compares the credits still missing for the second major with the credits still missing for the graduation total and reports the larger of the two, because courses in the second major also count toward the overall total and the two figures should not be added together.
This calculator works with credit counts only. It does not check which specific required courses you still owe, whether you meet the GPA or the application deadline for declaring a second major, how many terms you have left, or whether a course your department has not approved will really be double-counted. Confirm the final answer with your academic advisor.
Frequently Asked Questions
Minimum credits for a second major differ by school, by department and even by catalog year. This page embeds no school rule, so it asks for the figure printed in your own catalog.
Set both the cap and the credits you want counted for both majors to 0. If the cap is 0, every credit you ask to double-count is reported as refused.
A minor has a smaller credit requirement and is not printed on the degree itself, so its rules are structured differently. Use the separate minor credit requirement calculator for that.