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Registration Requirements for Graduate Assistantships
Graduate Students employed in a Graduate Assistant Teaching, Graduate Assistant Research or Graduate Assistant Non-Teaching title must be registered a minimum of 9 semester credit hours in fall and 9 semester credit hours in spring terms.
Graduate Students employed in a Graduate Assistant Lecturer title must be registered a minimum of 1 semester credit hour in fall and 1 semester credit hour in spring terms.
Summer registration fulfillment may be achieved in any of the sessions as noted below.
The table below defines the minimum number of registered hours required, as determined by the summer enrollment session and the associated GA position title.
Graduate students holding assistantships must meet the GA registration requirements by the census date. All SCH are considered. When a student is enrolled in more than once Texas A&M University campus such as TAMU-CS, TAMUG, and TAMUQ, all SCH across all campuses are considered. Texas A&M University does not mandate assistantships be terminated upon failure to maintain GA enrollment requirements after the census date. However, assistantships may be terminated by the employer/supervisor upon failure to maintain enrollment requirements after the census date.
*Graduate Hall Directors (Title Code 9020) must meet the Graduate Assistant Non-Teaching fall/spring/summer registration requirements.