See the Academic Program Summary for more information. Each student has a record on the Student Term File for each term in which that student is activated. The designation initially follows the order of the APS entries, but it can be changed, and it can vary from term to term. Each program has its own set of majors and minors, its own classification, and its own maximum course load. When a student completes a course, the course is credited toward the primary or secondary program or both depending on the established default rules.
Students can matriculate in more than two programs.
There is not term-related information for programs after the first two. But courses can be credited to the other programs by designating the career to which the credit applies. No academic action is permitted that does not fall within that period of time. A student must register in the term of his APS entry. That is, if a student's APS entry has an entry term of 89C, the student must actually register in that term for any further activity to be allowed on the system.