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The Texas State Education Code (54.068) applies only to undergraduate students who are Texas residents paying resident tuition and who enrolled for the first time in a Texas college or university in the Fall 1999 term or after.
This code authorizes a limit on the number of hours that students may attempt while paying in-state tuition.
- Students who initially enrolled in or after Fall 1999 and before Fall 2006 are allowed to attempt only the number of hours necessary to complete a degree in their approved major plus 45 hours.
- Students who initially enrolled in or after Fall 2006 are allowed to attempt only the number of hours necessary to complete a degree in their approved major plus 30 hours.
Attempted hours are calculated for courses in which a student is enrolled on the Official Reporting Day (ORD) [typically 12th class day for fall or spring; 4th class day for summer], not by the courses in which a student receives a grade (passing, failing, or W).
When students to whom this law applies enroll (register) for courses that exceed this limit, state law authorizes the university to charge additional fees up to a maximum of the out-of-state tuition rates.
If you stop attending a class with the intent to drop, be sure you drop on or before the Official Reporting Date (ORD) date or these hours will count toward your in-state tuition limit.
Please note that UHV does not currently charge additional fees for exceeding the undergraduate enrollment cap.
Undergraduate Enrollment Course Cap (i.e., “Three-Peat” Rule)
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Rules (Chapter 13, Subchapter F, 13.108) authorizes institutions to charge additional fees to undergraduate students who enroll in a course [undergraduate or graduate] for the third or more time. Attempted courses are those in which a student is enrolled through the Official Reporting Day (ORD) [typically 12th class day for fall or spring; 4th class day in summer]. Semester credit hours or contact hours attempted by students for the following types of coursework are exempt from the provisions of this section:
- Thesis and dissertation courses.
- Courses that may be repeated for credit because they involve different or more advanced content each time they are taken, including but not limited to individual music lessons, selected topics (when the topic changes), theater practicum, music performance, ensembles, certain physical education and kinesiology courses, and studio art.
- Independent study courses.
- Special topics and seminar courses.
If you stop attending a class with the intent to drop, be sure you drop on or before the Official Reporting Day (ORD) or these courses will count towards your two attempts.
Please note that UHV does not currently charge additional fees for exceeding this enrollment cap.
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