Electing Graduate Courses on an Audit (No Credit) Basis

Graduate classes may be audited only with prior approval from the graduate program director or coordinator. Not all graduate programs allow students to audit classes.

Students should first contact the Office of Graduate and Continuing Studies Admissions Office to determine if the graduate program allows students to audit courses. Students must then submit a graduate admissions application form and the application fee. Academic records are required with the application.

The Office of Graduate and Continuing Studies Admissions Office will contact the appropriate graduate program director or coordinator to review the application. The student will be notified if the application to audit the graduate course is approved.

Auditing requires both availability of space and permission of the graduate program director. Approved auditors may register after students taking the course for credit have been accommodated.

Auditing students are subject to any classroom rules or policies of the instructor, including absence rules. The deadline to declare an audit is listed in the Academic Calendar.

See Auditor Student Tuition in the Costs and Financial Information section of this catalog.

Auditors may attend all classes of the course for which they are registered, but they normally do not actively participate in the class, and their written work is not corrected or graded.

Auditors receive the grade of “AU” (“Audit”) for the course or courses that they have attended as auditors and may request a transcript from the Registrar’s Office. The grade of “AU” may not be converted to a credit grade after the course is completed.

Graduate auditors may not change their registration to full credit.