Dropping Courses
The Academic Calendar provides official dates for withdrawing from a class without record or without final grades. Withdrawal from graduate course-work is strongly discouraged. Students who officially withdraw within the first two weeks of classes will have no grades recorded. Those who officially withdraw after the first two weeks and prior to the last seven weeks will have a grade of W (withdrew) entered on the academic record.
International graduate students must receive authorization for course withdrawals from an advisor in International Programs and Services. It is important that international students not fall below the required full-time enrollment mandated by the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services.
If the student's academic advisor does not approve the course withdrawal, the student may appeal to the department chair. A refusal by the department chair may be appealed to the Dean of the Graduate School. The date on which the student withdraws on-line is the official date of withdrawal recorded by the registrar.
Failure to attend classes or verbal notification to instructors does not constitute withdrawal. Students must drop a course as described above or be credited with a failure. Students must use the on-line registration system to withdraw from a course.
Students who wish to drop all of their courses or withdraw from the Graduate School should contact Graduate Enrolled Student Services at 656-5339 for further instructions.
