Buckeye Degree Planner FAQs

Buckeye Degree Planner has replaced the current degree audit and the transfer credit report modules for undergraduate students. 

During 2026, the current degree audit system will continue to be used by graduate and professional programs while their audit are being implemented in Buckeye Degree Planner.  Athletics audits will remain in place until they are fully functional in Buckeye Degree Planner.  

A simplified navigation to track progress provides visibility into a student’s planned enrollment, academic course history and evaluated transfer credit.  

Students can track their degree progress for their declared programs, are able to plan their future enrollment for their academic career, and have the option to view a complete summary of their academic course history.  Students can also keep track of any credit transferred to Ohio State from a previous institution.    

Advisors can keep track of key information in the same format as students and run informative reports based on characteristics like program courses, unreviewed plans, missing requirements, GPAs and more. 

Administrators can use analytics to streamline processes and improve resource allocation, getting a full picture of the popularity of courses, times and days, programs, university requirements and electives.

Undergraduate students can get to Buckeye Degree Planner through My Buckeye Link.

Graduate and professional students are directed to utilize Degree Audit (uAchieve) until graduate and professional program audits are available in Buckeye Degree Planner. Graduate programs will be onboarded throughout 2026. 

Staff receive training from the Office of the University Registrar Degree Audit Team or from experts in their own college. 

Students have access to knowledge articles, FAQs, and how-to videos. Incoming new and transfer students learn about Buckeye Degree Planner in their survey course. 

Buckeye Degree Planner shows course details, terms the course is likely to be offered, campuses it is offered on, instructors, prerequisites, credit hours and attributes. It does not show how many seats remain or waitlist status.

Please contact us at degreeaudit@osu.edu

Symbols appear next to courses and requirements in your audit to show their status. You may also see a letter instead of an icon if you enabled "Better Interaction" mode through your settings. Sometimes courses require additional information to be provided, this is now indicated through additional icons that might appear on the right side of a listed course.

For a complete list of course status symbols view the symbols glossary.

Student athletes can use Buckeye Degree Planner as their degree plan goes live; however, athletic eligibility will continue to be calculated in the current degree audit system until all new functionality is in place. Athletes should continue to work closely with their college advisor and SASSO counselor. 

If you have both an undergraduate and graduate audit, currently you will only be able to see the undergraduate audit.  Once graduate programs are available in Buckeye Degree Planner, both audits will be visible in Buckeye Degree Planner.

No, students will continue to register as they normally do. Students can use Buckeye Degree Planner to map out what courses and requirements they need to satisfy each semester through graduation. 

Data in Buckeye Degree Planner is refreshed nightly. Anything added today will be available in the audit and plan the next day.

Buckeye Degree Planner calculates the following GPAs for students: 

• Program GPA (the GPA for all eligible courses within a particular program) 

• Term GPA 

• Any custom GPAs specified by the audit (such as a major-specific GPA for core courses) 

The following GPAs are from the Student Information System and are not calculated by Buckeye Degree Planner: 

• Cumulative GPA 

• Any other custom GPAs specified by the institution (such as a mid-semester GPA) 

Green indicates the requirements you have completed, yellow indicates requirements that are currently in progress and gray indicates the remaining requirements you need to fulfill to complete your degree.

Milestones are designed to address non-course requirements. Milestones include checking for residency hours, required minor declarations and things that can only be manually satisfied by an advisor. Milestones functionality is meant to track these requirements together with course requirements, all within the student's audit. 

No, Buckeye Degree Planner is a planning tool. While you will be able to “try on” the program in Buckeye Degree Planner, you will still need to formally declare the program with your advisor/college office. 

Buckeye Degree Planner will show the repeat symbol when a student is repeating a class, but there is no additional messaging that will alert a student about grade forgiveness. If a course is added twice an alert will appear, indicating the course has been planned twice.

Please contact us at degreeaudit@osu.edu.