Credit Load

Felician University offers many graduate programs which are on schedules other than a semester schedule, such as trimesters and 8-week modules. The policy dictating full-time or part-time status for these programs with special term structures will be prorated based on the semester policy. The semester policy for graduate students states that the student must be enrolled for 18 credits during the academic year, and these credits must be divided equally among the terms to maintain full-time status. The same policy will be applied for programs with a special term structure. Students in these programs must be enrolled for a minimum of 18 credits during the course of the academic year which is approximately Sept. 1 to Aug 31. For example, if there are three trimesters a student must be enrolled in a minimum of 6 credits per trimester (18/ 3) at the graduate level to remain in full time status. For the programs with 8-week modules/terms, which generally have six modules per academic year, the students must be enrolled in at least 3 credits per term/module to maintain full-time status (18/6). To determine half-time and part-time status, the same logic will be applied, using the number of credits from the traditional semester enrollment as a base and dividing it between the number of terms offered for that program structure during the academic year.

• Notes:
  • Terms per Academic Year x Number of Credits per Term = Total Credits Required
  • Summer is an optional term for semester and trimester programs.