• you must be contributing forty or more hours per week in pursuit of your degree, showing satisfactory progress,
AND

• you must have completed all the required course work for your degree and now be working on your thesis, dissertation, project, or internship, as well as enrolled in at least two approved credit hours per semester or one credit hour per term;
OR

• your department must have limited your enrollment to less than full-time because of a required TA/RA assignment. You must be enrolled in a minimum of six credit hours from your program of study while fulfilling your TA/RA assignment.

• are employed full-time;
• are newly admitted (unless your department limits your enrollment);
• are requesting certification for future semesters for which registration is not yet possible;
• do not have an approved committee and program of study;
OR

• are an international student on an F-1 or J-1 visa and do not have the approval of the International Services Office.

Requests for this exception are made using the Petition for Graduate Full-Time Status.