Nondegree students

Undergraduate students:

A nondegree student is a student who has not attended ASU previously as a degree-seeking student, has not earned a bachelor's degree, is not attending full time, and is not, at this time, applying to a degree program.

Graduate students:

For student with a completed bachelors, you can attend ASU through the Graduate College as a nondegree student. This does not prevent a student from taking undergraduate classes. Students with a completed degree have to be in graduate student status.

There are some policies to understand prior to applying as nondegree student at ASU:

• Once admitted to a degree program, a student is not permitted to register in a nondegree status.
• Nondegree students are limited to enroll in eight credit hours each semester.
• Nondegree students may only apply up to 12 credit hours earned in nondegree status to a future ASU degree program.
• Nondegree students are not eligible for financial aid.
• Nondegree students are not assigned an academic advisor or success coach.

Students should review Class Search Page prior to applying to confirm that the course needed is available and open to nondegree students.

Nondegree admission requirements

• Nondegree students must still apply to ASU but do not need to submit official documents or transcripts
• To be admitted to ASU as a nondegree student, an applicant must be a high school graduate Students currently enrolled in high school and persons under the age of 18 may be admitted as nondegree students by submitting an official high school transcript and a letter of approval from a high school counselor or principal stating the student is in good standing and is allowed to take nondegree courses.  

Application procedure

1. Open the [MN1]
2. Select nondegree seeking in the major selection step
   • If you select a specific major, you will go through full application review process
3. Submit the non refundable application fee.
4. If needed, send transcripts directly to ASU.

ASU will review your application for admission once all materials are on file. To see if your file is complete, sign in to My ASU using the ASURITE ID provided after you submitted the application.