Previously Enrolled Graduate Students
Instructions for the Re-Enrollment Procedure
Do I Need to Pay the Application Fee Again?
Who May Use the Re-Enrollment Form?
Who Must Go Through the Regular Application Process?
Who Must Reapply?
Graduate students who have not taken classes within their graduate program
at UM-St Louis for more than one year become inactive in the university’s
system. The full policy for that rule can be found at in the Graduate
School Policies.
To take any graduate classes at UM-St Louis, inactive graduate students are required to reapply. Depending on their status at the time they became inactive, students may be able to use the Re-enrollment application procedure or they may be required to go through the normal graduate application process.
Do I Need to Pay the Application Fee Each Time I Apply?
Applicants to Graduate School are only required to pay the application
fee once.
Who May Use the Re-Enrollment Form?
To reactivate their student status in the same graduate program, graduate
students may complete the Re-Enrollment Form under the following circumstances:
1. They have not completed a graduate degree since becoming inactive in
the desired program. Once students complete a degree, graduation terminates
their active status at the University, both in that program and as a graduate
student.
2. They were in good standing at the time they became inactive and have
not been suspended or dismissed or did not resign from that program.
Who Must Go Through the Regular Application Process?
1. All graduate students that do not meet both of the conditions above
must apply to the program following the normal application procedures,
including meeting the specific deadline and including the required supplemental
materials.
2. All undergraduate students, including UM-St Louis alumni, also must
use the regular application procedures.
3. All graduate students transferring from another institution to UM-St
Louis must go through the regular application process. This includes participants
in collaborative or cooperative programs with UM-St Louis.
Exceptions
The Re-Enrollment procedure is designed so that students can easily re-enter
the same graduate program. In rare cases the Graduate School agrees through
a Memorandum of Understanding with a department to allow individual students
from one major to change to a related major through the Re-enrollment
process. For example, Biology or Chemistry students may change to Biochemistry;
MBA students may change to MAcc; some Teaching and Learning students may
change specializations (e.g., elementary ed/special ed); and special cases
in K-12 Education Administration may change to Teaching and Learning.
With permission, EdD and PhD students majoring in Education may change
their area of emphasis through the Re-enrollment process. Programs that
have redefined majors or emphases have also used the Re-enrollment procedure
to assign students to the correct program.
No Exceptions
Although the exceptions above allow flexibility so students can change
majors via the Re-enrollment Form, in no case may students to go through
the Re-enrollment process to change majors if
1) The two majors are unrelated
2) The desired program has higher entrance requirements than the current
major, or
3) Students are attempting to enter a competitive program with assigned
deadlines and supplemental application requirements.
These rules are designed so that no one can gain an unfair advantage when seeking admission to a program that admits few students. They also give applicants the opportunity to prepare a more competitive application packet than is possible with the short Re-enrollment form.
If you have any questions about whether or not you meet the exceptions, please contact the graduate program director in your major or Graduate Admissions (gradadm@umsl.edu).
Ready to Apply?
If the Request to Re-enroll Form is appropriate in your case, please click
here to fill out the form.
If you need to go through the regular admissions procedure, you may click here to start the application process.