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Continuing Registration

Policy Number: 5270
Date Created/Revised: 9/12/2016
Date Last Reviewed: 11/25/2019
Executive Responsibility: Dean of the College of Graduate Programs and Honors Studies; Graduate Council
Functional Responsibility: College of Graduate Programs and Honors Studies

5270.1 General Policy

Students' registration each term should reflect the level of academic participation in university life and anticipated progress toward the degree. This is particularly true of students involved in thesis, dissertation, and special project research. Academic units may set minimum registration requirements for continuing and readmitted students, which represent the unit's supervision of the students' efforts to complete degree requirements and the expected progress toward the degree.

Students must be registered for at least one hour of graduate credit, as designated by the department, during the term in which the successful defense of a thesis or dissertation is accomplished.

Students must receive approval from their advisor, department chair and the Dean of the College of Graduate Programs and Honors Studies for an exception to the continuing registration requirement.

Some students are subject to mandatory advising per policy 3404.