Instructions for completing registration are issued each semester and summer session. Continuous Registration . Beginning in Spring 1994, the Graduate School requires continuous registration by all graduate students during the Fall and Spring semesters until they have completed their respective degree requirements. If a student has completed all course, exam and thesis or dissertation prior to the first day of the semester in which is scheduled to graduate, it is not necessary for the student to be enrolled during that semester. Seminars and Workshops .
Workshops are an important part of the graduate experience.
Speakers include well-known scholars from other universities, faculty at NCSU, and Ph.D. students. Schedules are posted each semester outside 10 Patterson and announced in the weekly news bulletin, The Exchange. Taxation of Assistantship Stipends and Tuition Waivers . A new tax law went into effect in 1987 making almost all assistantship and fellowship stipends taxable. Time Limit .