For information regarding admissions requirements, contact the university catalog or the Office of Enrollment Services. Traditional freshmen are applicants who will enter the fall semester of the same year in which they graduated from high school. These students may have from 0 to 11 hours of college work. Non-traditional freshmen are applicants who are not entering the fall semester of the same year in which they graduated from high school and who have less than 12 semester hours of college work. Transfer students are applicants with 12 or more college hours without a degree earned and have the intent to pursue a degree at Howard Payne University Transient Students are applicants who do not intend to pursue a degree from Howard Payne University but wish to transfer hours to another college that they attend.
Transient students are usually here for summer school or for only one semester.
Special students are applicants who have a baccalaureate degree or its equivalent from a regionally-accredited college or university. Early admission students are applicants who have successfully completed their junior year in high school and who wish to take seven or less college hours per semester. Credit is not received for these courses.