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Title: ACADEMIC LOAD
Number: R-13
Date of Inception: May 25, 1984

Purpose: To academically define full-time versus part-time student status and to provide for maximum number of hours allowable in each academic term.

Fall and Spring Semesters

By academic definition, a full-time undergraduate student is one who is enrolled for twelve (12) or more credit hours during a Fall or Spring semester, and a full-time graduate student is one who is enrolled for six (6) or more graduate credit hours. The normal load for graduate students is six (6) to nine (9) graduate credit hours.

An undergraduate student's normal load is fifteen (15) to seventeen (17) credit hours. For undergraduate students, permission must be obtained to enroll in 19 - 21 hours from one of the following:

(1) Director of Academic Advising, or
(2) University Registrar, or
(3) Academic Dean of the student's major

The maximum undergraduate course load allowed in any semester is twenty-one (21) hours. Any exception to this must be approved by the Provost. Graduate students enrolling in more than nine (9) hours per semester must obtain the permission of the graduate director of their program.

Note: Tuition charges are determined annually and are listed in the catalog.

Maymester

The maximum course load allowed during "Maymester" (session held during the month of May) is four (4) credit hours for undergraduate or graduate students. No exceptions.

Summer Sessions

The normal academic load for each Summer session is two courses or six semester hours. The maximum course load allowed in each Summer term is seven (7) credit hours. Any exception to this must be approved by the Provost.

By action of the Academic Council and the President's Cabinet on July 21, 1984, and revised on February 4, 2002 by the approval of the Provost, and revised on January 24, 2006 by action of the Faculty Senate.