Semester Plan

The university offers a variety of schedules: a semester schedule and a term schedule. The semester schedule includes two fifteen-week semesters per year and one ten-week semester during the summer. The term schedule includes six eight-week terms throughout the year.

The unit regularly used for the measurement of credit toward graduation is the semester hour, which is the equivalent of the credit earned in a course which meets one hour per week for a semester. Thus a class which meets two hours per week for a semester is a two-semester-hour course; one which meets three hours a week for a semester is a three-semester-hour course. For the purpose of converting transferred quarter hours into semester hours, the following formula is used: the number of semester hours is two-thirds the number of quarter hours.

A student must be enrolled for a minimum of twelve semester hours of work per semester or six semester hours of work per term to be classified as a full-time student. Enrollment for more than twenty semester hours requires the permission of the Registrar. Students on academic probation may never take more than twenty semester hours.