Registration

Registration is required of all graduate students when they use university facilities and/or faculty time. The minimum number of hours for registration is three. Registration allows use of services such as library checkout, laboratories, and recreation facilities not open to the public. If students are working on a dissertation (course number 600), thesis (500), or project (590), they should be appropriately registered for that class. If students simply need to maintain registration, but are not actively working with a faculty member on a specific project, they should register for "use of facilities" using the 502 designation.

Information concerning registration is available in the Timetable of Classes which is available online. A registration period is scheduled during each semester for the subsequent semester. A late registration period normally is held two days prior to the beginning of classes. A late fee is assessed for any student in attendance at the university who fails to register early for the following semester. See the Timetable for a sliding scale of late fees.

Course registration may be changed from credit to audit, or audit to credit, only during the first 29 calendar days after the beginning of classes. The deadline for all other changes of registration is approximately 42 calendar days after the first day of classes.

For a student not on an assistantship, the minimum for full-time classification is 12 semester hours. The maximum hours that can be taken without special permission is 15. For students on assistantships, full-time study is defined as a minimum of 9 hours for those on a 25 percent assignment and 6 hours for those on a 50 percent assignment.