Describes the status of a student’s relationship to the University. A student may be enrolled or affiliated.

• Enrolled students pay tuition and fees and may register for credits. There are five types of enrolled students:
  • Certificate-Seeking: A student who is enrolled in a credit or non-credit certificate program at the University.
  • Degree-Seeking: A student who is enrolled in any undergraduate, graduate, or professional degree-granting program at the University.
  • Non-Degree-Seeking: A student who has received permission to enroll and is registered for coursework at the University but is not enrolled in one of the University’s degree-granting programs.
  • Research: A student who is enrolled for graduate research credits only. Research graduate students may be degree-seeking or non-degree-seeking.
  • Visiting: A non-degree-seeking student who is enrolled in a degree-granting program at another institution.
• Affiliated students are absent temporarily from the University for educational or administrative purposes and expect to complete their degree. Affiliated students pay an affiliated status fee and may not register for credits. Affiliated status must be approved by a student’s dean (or designee) and may be used only for the purposes defined in this policy. There are three types of affiliation:
  • Doctoral Completion: Advanced doctoral students who have fulfilled all residency and credit requirements for their degree, do not require access to University resources (including labs) or student services, and are completing or defending their dissertation.
  • External Internship/Study: Students who are participating in an approved professional internship, cooperative education program, or educational program outside the University.
  • Degree Conferral in Absentia: Students who are not taking new courses or pursuing research, but who need to be affiliated at the University for certain administrative reasons before receiving their degree, including finishing incompletes, paying an outstanding University financial obligation, or receiving official transcripts of approved transfer credit.