Apply for Your Degree

If you only have credits from PCC, you may request for a degree check or degree petition in one of the following ways:

Express Phone Counseling

Go to Express Phone Counseling

Online Graduation Check/Petition Request

• An online counselor will review your request and assist you with a degree petition or email you a degree checklist if you have remaining requirements. 

Submit Online Graduation Check/Petition

PCC Connect

1. Log into PCC Connect
2. Use the "Raise My Hand" option
3. Select I am Ready to Graduate (PCC Complete or Graduation)!
4. Let us know:
   • Which degrees(s) you are completing
   • List the last classes needed to complete
   • Provide your phone number

Watch our video to learn how to use the Raise My Hand feature.  

After you raise your hand, you will be contacted by a member of our completion team with next steps and outcomes.  

Processing time is about 2-4 weeks. As long as the request is submitted during the application period, your request will be reviewed. Thank you for your patience.

Go to PCC Connect

Before You Petition for Your Degree

If you have attended other colleges or universities, you must submit all final official transcripts and records before degrees at PCC may be awarded. 

• Transcripts with in-progress work will not be considered. 
• If AP test scores are being used to meet any of your requirements, request official AP scores from College Board.
• Submit documentation of Language Other Than English if you are using the IGETC (for UC) general education for your degree.

What other ways may I meet this language requirement?

How to Petition

If you have non-PCC credits, you may request for a degree check or degree petition with a counselor in one of the following ways.   

Online Graduation Check/Petition

• Submit an online graduation check/petition and attach your non-PCC unofficial transcripts for a degree checklist.(when printing from your college student portal, change your printer to PDF to save as an electronic copy or scan your unofficial transcripts as a PDF).An online counselor will review your request and assist you with one of the following:
  • a degree petition (all official records must be on file to petition for your degree)
  • degree checklist so you know what requirements you still need  

Submit Online Graduation Check/Petition

Counseling Appointment

• Please email your unofficial transcripts as a PDF file to counseling@pasadena.edu so they counselor may have access to your record during your appointment.To petition for your degree, all official records must be on file with Admission & Records.(when printing from your college student portal, change your printer to PDF to save as an electronic copy or scan your unofficial transcripts as a PDF)

Meet With a Counselor in an Appointment

Please connect with counselors in your special program for assistance with a degree check or degree petition.  

• Athletics Counseling
• African American Male Education Network Development (A2MEND)
• Academic Success & College Empowerment Network Design (ASCEND)
• Black Student Success Center (BSSC)
• Blackademia
• CalWORKs
• Community Overcoming Recidivism through Education (CORE)
• Disabled Student Programs & Services (DSPS)
• Extended Opportunity Programs and Services (EOPS)
• STARS Foster Youth
• FYE Counseling - please connect with your Success Coach
• Honors
• Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA)
• Next Up
• Program for Academic Support Services (PASS)
• Puente Project
• Queer and Undocumented Empowerment Support to Thrive (QUEST)
• Ujima
• Veteran Services

Submit an Online Counseling inquiry using the Prospective Student Online Counseling Form and our online counselor will review your request and assist you with a degree check. If you qualify for a degree, you will be required to apply to PCC to have an active PCC ID#.  This is required for Admission & Records to post your degree.  

Go to Online Counseling