Maintaining Continuous Enrollment While Completing Your Culminating Experience

Graduate students often complete all their coursework and are left only with the requirement that they complete their culminating experience. Once a student has completed their coursework and received a RP (report in progress) for their culminating thesis or project course (typically a 298 or 299 numbered course), students must maintain continuous enrollment for each subsequent semester until they complete their culminating experience and graduate at the end of the semester. Policy S17-5 describes the requirement for continuous enrollment. While in this status, students may not stop out for a semester or take a leave of absence other than military leave or for serious medical issues.

Continuous enrollment is maintained by registering for a 1-unit UNVS 1290R or departmental 1290R course which costs $280. While enrollment for this course is done through MySJSU just as any other course, notification to enroll is delayed which allows students to enroll in regular courses if needed or required by their department to complete their program. Students who have an RP grade in their culminating course, a graduation date in the current or future semester, and no enrollment in any other courses will receive an enrollment appointment via email to register for the course. Students should register for the course as soon as they receive an appointment. Those students taking a culminating exam to graduate or do not have an RP status and must contact their advisor and the College of Graduate Studies to obtain an appointment.

It is important to note that students must ensure that their semester to graduate is for the current semester or beyond if they are to receive a 1290R appointment. Those students who do not register for 1290R from past semesters must retroactively add the course via petition found on the Registrar's website. Graduation will be delayed until continuous enrollment has been confirmed. Please review the catalog and this Continuous Enrollment FAQ for more details on continuous enrollment.