What a degree audit answers
- Completed courses
- Remaining requirements
- GPA
- Credits earned
A snapshot of one fixed path — accurate, and static.
The problem
Your degree isn't
a straight line.
But most academic planning tools treat it like one.
Students are constantly making decisions that change their academic path — switching majors, adding minors, rearranging courses, changing universities, or trying to graduate earlier. Yet understanding the consequences of those decisions often means manually comparing requirements, prerequisites, credits and course schedules.
One degree. Many possible paths. Most tools show you only the first one.
The gap
The problem isn't knowing what you have.
It's knowing what happens next.
Most degree audit systems are built to answer one question well. Students are asking a different one.
What students actually ask
What if I add a minor?
To answer these, students work through course catalogues, prerequisite lists, degree audits, advisor appointments, spreadsheets and trial and error.
Four decisions
Every one of these reshapes the same map.
01
Change your major
Computer Science → Mathematics
- Which completed courses still count?
- What becomes a new requirement?
- How does the graduation path change?
02
Add a minor
Computer Science + AI minor
- Which courses overlap?
- Which additional courses are required?
- Can it fit the existing schedule?
03
Change university
University A → University B
- Which credits may transfer?
- Which courses have equivalents?
- What changes in the pathway?
Actual transfer decisions rest with the receiving university. DegreeFlow simulates a possible pathway — it is not a transfer-credit authority.
04
Rebuild your course plan
Move a course to another semester
- What happens if a prerequisite moves?
- Does one change start a chain reaction?
- Can later courses still be taken?
Evidence
Academic decisions are complex, and students want better information.
The figures below come from published research conducted in the UAE, plus the UAE Ministry of Education's higher-education inspection framework. They do not measure demand for DegreeFlow — they establish that the decision itself is hard.
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UAE undergraduate students
surveyed on academic advising and major change, across all year levels.
Jaradat, Social Sciences (2017) ↗0
reported no influence of advising
on their major decision. The same study found students most often change major in second year.
Read the study ↗0
UAE undergraduates at Zayed University
surveyed on how they choose a major and what information would help. Mostly first-year, predominantly female.
Kuhail et al., Education Sciences (2023) ↗Advising matters. The point is not that advisors fail students — it is that students also need tools to explore possibilities independently, before and between those conversations.
How students research a major
In that Zayed University survey, only three students out of 496 mentioned reading the major's actual requirements as part of their decision. Students research careers thoroughly. The structure of the degree itself is where the information gap sits.
Source ↗A student voice
" Advising is useless. I still don't understand many things.
One of 152 first-year students surveyed at an American university in the UAE. In the same study, the registration process ranked as the second-largest source of academic stress — above teaching style — and academic advisors ranked sixth of nine sources of support.
Mikecz Munday (2021), open access ↗Why changing university is not simple
The UAE Ministry of Education's inspection framework requires that undergraduate transfer credits be awarded only for courses relevant to the receiving degree, and that credit is not granted twice for the same course taken at two institutions. Which is exactly why a student needs to see how their completed courses map onto a different degree before they commit.
Framework for Compliance Inspection of HEIs, 2023 (metric 7.4.5) ↗DegreeFlow simulates a possible pathway from available course and degree data. Official credit decisions always remain with the university.
The solution
What if you could see the consequences before making the decision?
DegreeFlow turns your degree requirements into an interactive map — letting you explore different academic scenarios before committing to them.
The experience
Change one decision. Watch the path respond.
Illustrative figures, using the same prototype course data as the Explore page.
Try it yourself →Concepts
And the map can go further.
These are design concepts, not built features. Nothing below exists in the prototype yet.
GPA what-if
What would my GPA look like if I earned different grades?
Summer semester
Could taking courses over summer help me graduate earlier?
Course Retake
What happens if I move this course to another semester?
Graduation timeline
What's the earliest realistic path based on my remaining requirements?
Path comparison
Which of these two degree plans gets me where I want to go?
Before and after
Same question. Different process.
Without DegreeFlow
- Degree audit
- Course catalogue
- Prerequisite list
- University policy pages
- Advisor appointment
- Spreadsheet
- Manual calculations
- Uncertainty
With DegreeFlow
- Choose a scenario
- Visualize your current credits
- Explore the consequences
- See prerequisite relationships
- Compare pathways
- Make a more informed decision
Why this matters
Visibility is the product.
Time
Understand how academic decisions may affect your graduation timeline.
Money
Identify unnecessary coursework and understand the potential academic cost of different paths.
Confidence
Explore decisions before committing to them, instead of trying to calculate the consequences mentally.
Uncertainty
Visibility
Better decisions
Your degree is a network of possibilities.
DegreeFlow helps you see them.
No more guesswork. Explore what your degree could become.
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