Course Levels Course Loads Twelve credit hours is considered full-time status for undergraduates. An undergraduate student must be enrolled for a minimum of 12 hours to qualify for full-time certification to any organization.
Undergraduates normally take five courses per semester.
Since a majority of courses carry three semester hours of credit with some carrying four hours of credit, a normal course load is 15 or 16 hours per semester. To complete most undergraduate degrees in four years, students should plan to carry 15 or 16 hours per semester. Undergraduates may not take more than 19 hours per semester except with the approval of Student Academic Services. Students who have cumulative grade point averages of 3.0 may be authorized, in special circumstances and at the discretion of the Director of Student Academic Services, to carry a maximum of 21 semester hours of course work. In general, students should plan to devote between 2-3 hours outside of class for each hour in class.