Graduate Students Full Course Load
A Master Level student must meet the following requirements:
- You must enroll in at least 9 credit hours total. (Any term length counts: 16 week, 8 week or less)
- At least 6 of those credits must be in-person (1 class can be any term length: 16 week, 8 week or less).
- At least 3 in-person credits must last the entire 16 week Spring or Fall semester (BUAD 5302 does not count).
See the following chart to understand what classes count as online or in-person credit.
On-Campus or Online Credit
Class Delivery Method |
Description |
Credit Type |
Lecture |
Traditional on-campus and in-person |
On-Campus |
Hybrid |
On-campus attendance is required for every other session |
On-Campus |
Online (Asynchronous) |
Conducted fully online |
Online |
Online (Synchronous) |
Conducted fully online |
Online |
High Flex (or Hy Flex) |
Student may choose to attend on-campus or online |
Online* |
Flex |
Student may choose to attend on-campus or online |
Online* |
*Flex and High Flex classes can count as on-campus credits ONLY if the student completes the
request in their Immigration Portal called
Flex as In-Person. In the request, the student promises
to attend class on-campus and in-person. The professor will take attendance, and the DSOs will
check attendance periodically throughout the semester.