Third Year Requirements
Program Requirements
- Attend the third-year Welcome Back informational session via Zoom. There will be multiple session options during the week of August 11 - 15, 2025.
- Participate in a third-year engagement option. These are listed below. Selections will be made during the Welcome Back session.
- Build Your Own Experience (BYOE): Build Your Own Experience is intended to support you in learning more about what you would like to pursue post graduation. Students choosing this opportunity will meet with the AZA Outreach Coordinator two times throughout the semester. In the first meeting, you will work together to determine workshops available around campus and/or in the community that allow you to explore your interests and determine your post graduation plan.
- Graduate & Professional School Preparation: Learn more about what graduate and professional school are, why you might choose to continue going to school, and work on drafts of key components to the graduate application process. This option requires two meetings throughout the semester with the AZA Coordinator and completion of the asynchronous sessions through Edge Learning. The entire experience is expected to take 8-10 hours throughout the semester, at your pace.
- Workforce Preparation: Learn more about preparing to enter the workforce post graduation. This includes working on your resume, exploring the job market in your field, and interview skills. This option requires two meetings throughout the semester with the AZA Coordinator and completion of the asynchronous sessions through Edge Learning. The entire experience is expected to take 8-10 hours throughout the semester, at your pace.
- Internship: 20 hours fall semester (you must find this on your own)
- Research: 20 hours fall semester (you must find this on your own)
- Study abroad: must be studying abroad fall 2025 or spring 2026.
- Meet with your academic advisor once in the fall semester AND once in the spring semester. Eller College of Management academic advisors need to complete the Arizona Assurance Academic Advisor Form. All other advising appointments will automatically be pulled through the UA's centralized scheduling system; during your advising meeting, request that you advisor change your meeting to "attended" if they did not already do so
Financial & Academic Requirements
Requirements are checked in phases. Phase I ensures you submitted your FAFSA by the March 1st deadline. If you met the FAFSA deadline, remaining requirements are reviewed in early June. Final renewal and non-renewal emails are usually sent in June of each year.
- File your FAFSA by March 1, 2026.
- Final corrections to your FAFSA must be made by May 1, 2026.
- Remain Pell Grant eligible (this will be determined by your FAFSA).
- Maintain Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP).
You are able to take summer classes if you are not meeting SAP, and if you are meeting SAP at the end of summer you can become eligible for AZA without an appeal.
For more information on appeals, visit the Office of Scholarships & Financial Aid AZA Appeals & Deferments page.