Nondegree Students Program
The Nondegree Students program is designed to meet the needs of students with specific and defined educational goals, which may include personal or professional enrichment, exploration of new fields, or preparation for career changes. This program offers nonresident students who are unable to attend college full time the opportunity to enroll in Yale College courses for credit. This program is open to graduates of Yale College, and is also open to academically qualified persons who have attended other colleges and universities, or who have not continued their education beyond high school. Like all others enrolled in Yale College, students in this program are required to comply with the academic regulations.
Nondegree students may enroll in from one to five courses in any academic term. Nondegree students may not take more than a total of eighteen course credits in the Nondegree Students program.
1. Registration and enrollment. All nondegree students register for courses with Dean William Whobrey, 55 Whitney Avenue, Suite 430, 432-2430. In general, admission to limited-enrollment courses is not available to nondegree students. Nondegree students are not eligible for enrollment in individual tutorial courses; nor are they eligible, while in the Nondegree Students program, for enrollment in courses in the graduate or the professional schools. Those interested in enrolling in such courses should apply directly to the Graduate School or to the particular professional school in whose courses they wish to enroll. Nondegree students are required to meet all of the academic obligations of any course in which they enroll. At the end of a term, the record of any nondegree student who does not have at least a C average for that term will be reviewed, and that student may not be permitted to enroll in a subsequent term.
2. General. The tuition for nondegree students during 2007–2008 is $3,000 per course credit; Yale employees and their spouses are entitled to a tuition reduction as determined by the Office of Human Resources. Tuition must be paid in full to the Office of Student Financial Services before registration. Nondegree students are entitled to use the library system and other facilities that are required for the courses in which they are enrolled, such as laboratories, computers, and the like. For a fee, they are entitled to purchase gymnasium membership and Yale Health Plan coverage. Nondegree students are not eligible for undergraduate housing and they may not serve as freshman counselors. Yale provides no financial assistance for nondegree students. Nondegree students are governed by the academic regulations of Yale College and by the rules contained in the Undergraduate Regulations. In disciplinary matters, nondegree students are subject to the jurisdiction of the Yale College Executive Committee.
3. Yale students. Students who have withdrawn from Yale College or who did not complete degree requirements within the number of terms of enrollment for which they were admitted may not return to Yale College to complete degree requirements as nondegree students. This rule includes former Yale College students who are currently employees of the University. Students on leave of absence may not be admitted to the Nondegree Students program.
4. Yale graduates. Graduates of Yale College who have received the bachelor's degree after eight terms of regular enrollment are eligible to apply as nondegree students either on a full-time or on a part-time basis. But Yale College graduates who have taken degrees after fewer than eight terms of regular enrollment are eligible to apply as nondegree students only on a full-time basis until they have completed the equivalent of eight terms of enrollment in Yale College. Thus a student who took a seven-term degree must be a full-time student for the first term in which he or she is a nondegree student, but may be a part-time nondegree student in a subsequent term. For example, a student who has completed degree requirements at the end of a fall term after eight terms of regular enrollment is eligible to apply as a nondegree student either on a full-time basis or on a part-time basis during the subsequent spring term, but a student who has completed degree requirements at the end of a fall term after seven terms of regular enrollment is eligible to apply as a nondegree student during the subsequent spring term only on a full-time basis. Please note that any courses taken by a former Yale College student in the Nondegree Students program will appear on the undergraduate transcript.
5. Transfer students. Students who have been accepted for admission as transfer students may not attend Yale as nondegree students before their first term of enrollment at Yale.
6. Subsequent enrollment. Nondegree students must provide written notice to the director of the program each term as to their intent to enroll in the subsequent term. The deadline for receipt of such notice is the first day of the final examination period for the currently enrolled term. Students failing to provide such notice for two consecutive terms may not be permitted to enroll in a subsequent term. Failure to complete at least one course in four consecutive terms will result in release from the program.
Further information and application forms are available from the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, 38 Hillhouse Avenue, Yale University, P.O. Box 208234, New Haven, CT 06520-8234, 432-9301. Nondegree enrollment may begin in either the fall or the spring term.
For students not currently enrolled in another college, applications are due on October 1, 2007, for spring term 2008, and on May 1, 2008, for fall term 2008. For students who are currently enrolled in another college, the deadline is October 1, 2007, for the spring term and July 1, 2008, for the fall term. Yale employees require permission of their supervisors to apply.
