Registration

Summer Registration Information

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The summer term is a 12-week semester with several options for 3-week, 5-week, 6-week, and full-term courses.  Undergraduate students may take 18 hours over the course of the summer without special permission for an overload, while graduate students are still limited to 12 hours without special permission for an overload.  However, the suggested maximum number of hours per part of term are as follows for undergraduates:

  • Full Term: 18 credit hours
  • 3-Week Terms: 4 credit hours
  • 5-Week Terms: 8 credit hours
  • 6-Week Terms: 8 credit hours

Students should also be careful with overloading between parts of term.  For example, it would be difficult to take two 4-hour classes in the S5A term and a 3-hour class in the S3B term since they would all be held concurrently.  The system will allow you to register for more than the suggested maximum number of hours per part of term, but it may not always be in your best interest to do so.  You are considered full-time in the summer as an undergraduate student with 12 credit hours (same as during the fall and spring).  Graduate students are considered full-time at 9 hours unless you are a graduate assistant, in which case you are full-time at 6 hours.

Identifying which part of term a course is in can be a little tricky, so note the picture below that shows where to identify the part of term for a class and the dates in which it is held.  When using “Look Up Classes” in Pipeline the third column from the right will show the date range of the course.  You’ll also find the term code in the far-right column under the course attributes.  This will correlate to the date column, but may be easier in identifying the part of term. PLEASE NOTE that the Schedule Planner does not recognize different parts of term and is not a useful tool for summer course registration!

Summer Look Up Classes

Once you are registered for summer you can easily see your course dates and the part of term if you look at the “Schedule (Grid Format)” in Pipeline under the Registration and Student Records menu.  An example can be found below for a student taking one course in the S5A term (first half of the summer semester), another in the S5B term (2nd half of the summer semester), and one course in the S3A term (the first three weeks of the summer semester, and the traditional “Maymester” so many students are accustomed to taking). 

Summer Schedule

There are many online course options for summer, and each of those courses will also fit within one of these parts of term.  It is incredibly important to know which part of term your class is in to avoid missing a start date.  Once you have paid or confirmed for the summer term you must follow the dates and deadlines for withdrawing from classes as outlined in the Registration Guide. Students who late register for a course must prepay or have enough financial aid to cover their balance before the MT One Stop will add them to a class. 

Students who drop or withdraw could encounter major issues with financial aid depending on when you drop or withdraw.  Note that dropping a class in one part of term and adding a class in another will NOT evenly swap your fees if the class you drop has already started.  For example, if you drop a class in the S3A part of term on the first day of class and add a class in the S5A part of term, you only get 75% fee adjustment for the S3A class you drop and still have to pay 100% of the S5A class you add. Always email [email protected] or come by the MT One Stop front counter prior to dropping or withdrawing from courses to find out the fee and financial aid impact.