Credit

In general one credit represents 15 semester hours of classroom work or 30 semester hours of laboratory work, or the equivalent. Students are automatically classified as full-time during any given semester if they are taking 12 credits. They may be certified as full-time if they are taking fewer than 12 credits but are pursuing additional academic work that is required for the degree and that amounts to full-time study, such as preparing for comprehensive examinations, writing a thesis, teaching on a fellowship, student teaching or undertaking an internship or fieldwork under faculty supervision. Students who believe they qualify for certified full-time status and wish to protect their status as full-time students because of eligibility requirements for financial aid must ask their graduate advisers to verify the full-time nature of their academic work and to make a recommendation on this matter to the registrar prior to the beginning of classes of each semester.