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Fee Minimization Strategies
- After you’ve decided what classes you're taking, it costs you nothing more to add thesis/dissertation credits up until just below the next fee threshold (make your total credits for the semester 4 or 8). Just make sure to get a memo saying you’re a full-time student and don’t forget to enroll in the health plan.
- Similarly, if you have over nine credits in classes, you don’t pay anything more for adding additional thesis/dissertation credits. There’s a maximum of 16 per semester (or 18 with GPD approval).
- If you’re not taking any classes in a semester, realize that the cost of enrolling in 4 thesis/dissertation credits is pretty much the same as the continuation fee. Similarly, the cost of taking a single class (3 or 4 credits) is pretty much the same as the cost of taking no classes.
- PSS Program requires MS-with-thesis students to take 6 to 10 thesis credits, and a total of 30 graduate credits. Ph.D. students need 10-18 dissertation credits.