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Full-Time Status

 A full-time, matriculated student must meet one of the following requirements:

• Registered for 9 or more graduate credits.
• Registered for 6 or more graduate credits if employed as a graduate student for 15 hours or more per week.
• Registered for 3 graduate credits with all required coursework completed and only the research component of the degree remaining.
• Registered for at least 3 credits during the semester of the final thesis/dissertation defense or, in a non-thesis degree program, the last semester of coursework required on the student's Program of Study form.