Graduate Credit Non-Degree Students
If you are a post-baccalaureate student who wishes to take graduate courses (.500-level and above) but is not interested in earning a degree at this time, you must apply for non-degree student status. Here's how:
- We strongly encourage you to first speak with an adviser.
- You must possess a bachelor's or graduate degree from a regionally accredited college or university and have achieved a minimum 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale) grade point average overall or in the last half of your undergraduate degree programs to be approved for graduate special student status.
- Submit a Graduate Non-degree Student Admission Application with a $25 application fee. Note: Financial aid is not available for non-degree students.
- Submit official transcripts of all undergraduate and graduate work (those with graduate degrees need to submit only official transcripts of graduate work). To be deemed official, transcripts must be received in the Office of Admissions in the institution's sealed envelope. Academic records from non-U.S. institutions must be evaluated by a certified credential evaluation agency. Please see the International Students Admissions Policy
for details. - Submission of a resume is required for all applicants.
Please note the following policies:
- If you wish to apply earned credits to a degree or certificate program, you must obtain adviser approval. No more than nine credits earned as an admitted graduate non-degree student may be applied toward a degree (the number of credits varies with the degree program). If you do not intend to pursue a degree, you are not limited to nine credits, but you are subject to school academic standards .
- As a graduate non-degree student, you are restricted to .500-level courses and, with adviser approval, .600-level courses.
