Academic Load
Undergraduate Quarter Students
9 credit hours: full-time
8 credit hours: three quarter-time
6-7 credit hours: half-time
1-5 credit hours: less than half-time
Graduate Quarter students
9 credit hours: full-time
6-8 credit hours: half-time
1-5 credit hours: less than half-time
Course extensions (including culminating project extensions and thesis extensions) are not considered a part of “hours enrolled” for purposes of this policy and are therefore less than half time.
For purposes of a Missouri Student Grant, students must be enrolled in nine hours in the quarter system both at the time the funds are requested and at the time the funds are received.