Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences | Rutgers-New Brunswick

Academic Advising/Counseling

OSP Advising provides students with a counselor who serves as an individual contact for each student and who guides students towards meeting their educational objectives, while also ensuring student retention and graduation. Counselors assist students in:

  • understanding first-year placements and the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences curriculum requirements.
  • selecting appropriate courses.
  • choosing major courses of study.
  • completing term registration.

Student Responsibilities to the OSP Office:

  • Initiate contact with your counselor/advisor.
  • Make all the final decisions about your educational goals, including selection of courses, curriculum and career, in consultation with your counselor. In addition to your counselor, excellent sources of up-to-date information about the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences curricula are SEBS Academics and Degree Navigator.
  • Schedule counseling/advising sessions, arriving promptly and adequately prepared. Before you see an advisor, review curriculum requirements, course offerings, prerequisites and your overall academic progress.
  • Consult with a counselor on changes to a recommended or approved schedule or academic plan. It is to your benefit to consult an advisor before changing majors, transferring, or withdrawing from college.
  • Discuss academic difficulties first with your professor and then, if necessary, with a counselor; take action to correct the difficulties.
  • Read all college communications and e-mail, and meet all pertinent college deadlines. The University catalog, course schedule booklet, student handbook, letters/postcards from the registrar, deans, department chairs, official announcements posted in the student newspapers, and the Office of Special Programs newsletter. All contain information which is your responsibility to know.
  • Meet the standards for continuing EOF Program support and maintaining academic standing.
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