The maximum time frame standard is in place to ensure that students complete their degree requirements within 150 percent of the minimum graduation requirements.
Quantitative standards involve comparing attempted and completed credit hours.
Undergraduate Students are allowed 183 attempted credit hours to receive a first undergraduate degree. Undergraduate Pharmacy Majors are allowed 233 attempted credit hours to receive a first undergraduate degree in Pharmacy. Masters candidates are allowed to receive aid for a period of four years from their entry into a Masters program. Doctoral candidates are allowed to receive aid for a period of seven years from their entry into a Doctoral program. Doctoral candidates, who enter a program after beginning as a Masters student in that same program, will be allowed to receive financial aid for seven years, measured from the time of entry into the Masters program.