Adding and Dropping Classes

Students may add and/or drop courses subject to the deadlines given in the academic calendar. Students cannot add a course after the last day for adding courses without the approval of the Program Director, Dean, or Office of the Provost. Students will not receive credit for a course for which they have not properly registered. Students wishing to take more than 18 hours in one semester must receive approval from the Dean, Registrar and Student Accounts.

The responsibility for submitting add/drop forms to the Office of the Registrar before the deadlines rests entirely with the student. No petitions for the retroactive dropping or adding of courses will be considered except under extenuating circumstances and must be approved by the Office of the Provost or a Dean.

From the first day of classes through the last day to drop with no grade, students may drop a course by submitting a written request to the Office of the Registrar. If a student stops attending a course without formal withdrawal through the Office of the Registrar, the student will automatically receive an F for that course. When a student withdraws from a course before the last day for dropping courses with no grade, no record of such a course will appear on the permanent academic record. After the last day for dropping a course with no grade, students may drop a course with a grade of W if the course is dropped before the deadline specified in the academic calendar by submitting an approved drop form. After the deadline for withdrawing from a course with a W (after approximately 75% of the course), students may not drop a course without receiving a failing grade of F. In the case of extenuating circumstances an exception may be approved by the Office of the Provost.
On campus students are limited to one semester of online coursework and online students are limited to one semester of on-ground coursework.