Bronze Tablet Award

The Bronze Tablet is a recognition of continuous high academic achievement. The student's name is inscribed on the Bronze Tablet, which hangs on a wall in the Main Library Building. (Images of these tablets are available here.)

Undergraduate students must meet the following qualifications:

  1. They must have a minimum 3.5 cumulative grade-point average for all work taken through the academic term before graduation (academic term before graduation means: for August graduates, the preceding spring semester; for October graduates, the preceding summer session; for May graduates, the preceding fall semester).
  2. They must rank, on the basis of the cumulative grade-point average through the academic term before graduation, in the top three percent of the students in their college graduating class. (College graduating class means all students receiving bachelor's degrees from the same college between July 1 of each year and June 30 of the next.)
    In addition to the above rules, transfer students must meet the following qualifications.
  3. They must have cumulative University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign grade-point averages as high as the lowest ones listed for students in their college who qualify on the basis of having completed all of their work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  4. They must earn 40 or more semester hours at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign through the academic term before graduation.