If you are a PhD student and are receiving an assistantship, you are allowed a maximum total of 72 graduate credit hours of tuition waiver, when such waiver is available and approved by the Department.

The Department will not pay for any excess credits beyond 72 graduate credits hours for PhD students. Such payment will have to be made either by: (a) the University after successful petition to the Graduate School, (b) the supervising faculty member, or (c) by you yourself.

No tuition waiver will be provided for any course that you have to repeat for academic reasons, even though you have not yet expended the total 72 credit hours of tuition waiver.