Admission requirements
Associate in arts or associate in science degree from an accredited two-year college or at least 62 semester credits acceptable toward graduation at ISU with a total cumulative grade-point average of at least 2.0

Graduation requirements
The 120 total semester credits will include:

• 45 upper-level credits from a four-year college
  
• 30 credits from Iowa State earned during the junior and/or senior year
  
• A grade average of at least 2.0 (a "C" average) in
  --all course work applied to the BLS degree
  --all upper-level course work
  --all work completed after admission to the BLS program
• Proficiency in English demonstrated
  --by completion of an approved, advanced composition course from a four-year college ("C" grade or better)
  --or by an evaluation of a term paper written in an upper-level course other than English composition
• 3 credits in international perspectives
• 3 credits in U.S. diversity