Registration Information for Graduate Students/ Support

Departmental PHYS 696 requirement: (see syllabus by Dr.Csathy)

* All 1st and 2nd year graduate students who intend to hold TA positions must register for and pass PHYS 696

*Senior graduate students, who already acquired 4 semesters of Pass grades for PHYS 696, may hold a TA position without registering for PHYS 696.

*If a junior graduate student secures a Research Assistant position or any other type of funding and later on requests a TA position, in order to hold this TA position, he/she is required to register for and pass PHYS 696 until a total of 4 semester of Pass grades are secured.

Teaching/Research Assistants

To be eligible to hold a graduate staff appointment during any session, an individual must be enrolled as a graduate student in a degree or teacher license program and be registered for at least three credit hours of graduate-level course and/or research work during the entire appointment period.  (Graduate staff on appointment during the summer are obligated to register for a minimum of three graduate hours during at least one of the summer modules.)  For privileged registration information, see Section V-G-2-a,b.

• Students must be engaged in the type of activity for which their position is funded (e.g., students paid from instructional funds must be doing instruction, and students paid from research funds must be doing research, etc.).

• Any student (whether on appointment or not) must be registered for research during each session when doing research utilizing faculty direction or consultation and/or requiring the use of University facilities. Research includes literature reviews and thesis writing.  A student’s research registration should be roughly proportional to the amount of time devoted to research activities, with 18 session hours representing maximum registration.  It is important to keep in mind that underregistration for research is likely to result in the accumulation of insufficient credits to meet degree requirements. (See Section VI-B)
• Full-time study is based on the number of credit hours carried in a given session.  Eight (six during the summer session) credit hours is the full-time certification standard for graduate students.  Students pay the fee set for full-time study if they are registered for eight (six during the summer session) or more credit hours.  Various fellowships and sponsoring agencies may have differing definitions of full-time status. (check the specific credit requirement for your Fellowship)
• IF students are doing research they must register for PHYS 590/699:  https://catalog.purdue.edu/content.php?catoid=7&navoid=2887 Any student (whether on appointment or not) must be registered for research during each session when doing research utilizing faculty direction or consultation and/or requiring the use of University facilities. Research includes literature reviews and thesis writing.  A student’s research registration should be roughly proportional to the amount of time devoted to research activities, with 18 session hours representing maximum registration.  It is important to keep in mind that underregistration for research is likely to result in the accumulation of insufficient credits to meet degree requirements.

Summer Research Grants(SRG)

Registration Requirements - Recipients of the Summer Research Grant must be enrolled and maintain status as a graduate student in a degree-granting graduate program at Purdue. Student must register for a minimum of 3 hours of Ph.D. research (69900) during the summer session. All research must be performed on the West Lafayette campus.

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Registration of Graduate Students