All students must comply with a number of important regulations to be eligible for graduation from our degree programs.
Know the IEU Academic Regulations that govern all undergraduate degrees HERE
Attendance Policy
ATTENDANCE POLICY 2024-2025
The student’s attendance policy for academic year 2024-2025 aims to offer IE University students a world-class education. Please check out the Attendance Policy 24-25 – IE University to read the complete protocol.
According to IE University policy, attendance is mandatory; bachelor’s and master’s degree students are expected to attend 100% of the sessions as attendance is an essential component of IE´s learning methodology. For this reason, we monitor attendance closely and have established a policy for exceptional reasons for absence. For in-person programs, students should attend their live, in-person sessions on campus.
This policy applies to any type of session as planned in the syllabus: live in-person, asynchronous, and live online. Students who do not meet the attendance requirement will fail the course in both the 1st and 2nd call. This implies that the student must re-enroll in the course the following academic year for the 3rd call (payment required).
Health problems, visa delays, travel restrictions, personal trips, appointments, family celebrations, or other personal matters are to be treated as exceptions to the 100% attendance policy. Such exceptions cannot total more than 20% of the student’s overall attendance in the course. If any student exceeds 20% of exceptional absences due to ongoing extraordinary circumstances, Program Management will study the case individually if the student provides sufficient documentation in timely manner. For absences that students are unable to anticipate (e.g., illnesses, personal injuries, etc.), the student will have up to 7 days from the first day of absence to inform Program Management. Program Management will inform professors of any extraordinary cases.
If students have questions about attendance, they should contact Program Management. Under no circumstances should students approach faculty to discuss attendance since faculty members have no responsibility/power to justify a student´s absence.
Students who are absent from live-in person sessions are permitted to attend the session online; however, they will be marked absent and will not be allowed to participate if any exam happens during that session. Failure to attend an exam will be reviewed by Program Management on a case-by-case basis.
IMPLEMENTATION RULES FOR BACHELOR PROGRAMS IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2024-2025
1st and 2nd years students of the single Bachelors and 1st, 2nd and 3rd years students of Duals:
- Maximum of 20% of absences.
- Students attending less than 80% of sessions will receive a FAIL (0.0) in the ordinary and extraordinary calls of the current academic year.
3rd year students of the single Bachelors and 4th year students of Duals:
- Maximum of 20% of absences.
- Students attending less than 80% of session will receive a FAIL (0.0) in the ordinary call of the current academic year if attendance is between 70% and 80% of the sessions. Students will be allowed to sit at the retake of the extraordinary call; or will receive a FAIL (0.0) in the ordinary and extraordinary calls of the current academic year if attendance is under 70% of the sessions.
4th year students of the single Bachelors and 5th year students of Duals:
- Maximum of 30% of absences, including all absences for professional reasons (job hunt and interviews).
- Students attending less than 70% of sessions will receive a FAIL (0.0) in the ordinary and extraordinary calls of the currentacademic year.
ATTENDANCE POLICY PRACTICES
1. IE’s attendance policy seeks 100% attendance. If students do not attend the established percentage of the course’s sessions according to the program, they will automatically fail the course. For in-person programs, students are required to attend sessions on campus.
2. In each session, the professor must mark any student as Absent who is not present in the classroom. For those exceptional situations where a student is connected online without any justification, that session should be marked as absent. It is recommended to take attendance first and then open Zoom.
3. If a student approaches the professor to ask for an absence to be excused, the professor must refer the student to Program Management (PM). The professor CANNOT justify any type of absence from the classroom or allow online attendance that counts as positive attendance. This policy is to uphold the professor’s academic relationship with the student, and to avoid any extra burden on professors.
4. The PM will only authorize online attendance (which would count as positive attendance) due to force majeure reasons with a prolonged nature and will inform the professors of the student and the sessions involved.
5. Retake students in undergraduate programs are not required to attend classes. PM will notify the professors, and they will mark them as Excused. Professors will inform students of any deliverables/tests they must do (if any) prior to the final exam. Group work is NOT to be assigned to retakers.
6.If two or more sessions are scheduled “back-to-back”, attendance must be completed for each session so that the attendance percentage is calculated correctly.
7. The late option is not to be used. Once the class has begun, students must be marked absent.
8. If a student leaves the session early, professors should change their attendance to absent.
9. When in doubt, professors should mark a student absent and send an email to PM. If the attendance should be changed, PM will inform the professor.