Registrar: Student Overloads

You may want to take more courses than the standard full-time load. Before you do, review the limits, restrictions and approval requirements to stay on track. For undergraduates, an overload means enrolling in more than 18 hours in a fall or spring semester, or more than 6 hours in a single summer term (Summer I or Summer II).

Undergraduate Petition for Overload

Regular Session

During a regular session, the following semester hour guidelines apply to Undergraduate and Graduate students:

Undergraduate

Full-Time: 12 hours
Half-Time: 6 hours
Maximum Course Load: 19 hours

Graduate

Full-Time: 9 hours
Half-Time: 6 hours
Maximum Course Load: 15 hours

Undergraduate and Graduate students who enroll in fewer than 6 hours are considered less than half time.

Restrictions and Exceptions

Appropriate administrative staff will use the following guidelines for approving exceptions to the above:

Any student enrolled for student teaching will be limited to a maximum of fifteen semester hours.
An undergraduate student who wishes to enroll for more than 19 hours must obtain their academic dean’s approval before adding the course. Any student who exceeds the normal load by adding additional course(s) and does not have the appropriate academic dean’s approval will be automatically dropped from that course and notified of this action by the dean.
Students required to enroll in university designated developmental reading, composition or mathematics in any long semester will be restricted to a 14-hour course load, approved by the academic adviser. All approvals for overloads are obtained from the dean of the college in which the student is majoring.

Summer Session

For each summer term, the normal student load is six semester hours, exclusive of physical education activity. Students may not enroll for two sub-term courses within the same sub-term.

Full Time: 6 hours

Restrictions and Exceptions

Undergraduate students may schedule one semester hour above the normal load each summer term.
An undergraduate lacking fifteen semester hours to graduate at the end of that summer and who has an overall “C” (2.00) grade point average may schedule nine semester hours one term with dean’s approval.
Freshmen admitted provisionally will be limited to 10 semester hours for the entire summer.
An undergraduate student who lacks 30 semester hours to graduate in December may schedule nine semester hours during one summer term only if his fall schedule would include student teaching and if he has an overall “C” (2.00) grade point average.
A last semester senior who lacks 12 hours or fewer to graduate at the end of the summer and who has an overall “C” (2.00) grade point average may schedule nine semester hours one term with the appropriate dean’s approval.

Mini Session

Due to the accelerated nature of the class, the maximum load for a mini-term is 3 hours. If a 4 hour class is offered in the mini session, contact the Registrar’s Office for registration assistance.

Maximum Course Load: 3 hours

Restrictions and Exceptions

Any student who exceeds the normal load by adding additional course(s) and does not have the appropriate academic dean’s approval will be automatically dropped from that course and notified of this action by the dean.

Overload Approvals

All approvals for overloads are obtained from the dean of the college in which the student is majoring.

For scholastic probation details, see the current catalog.