# Audit Policy

**Source**: https://catalog.northeastern.edu/graduate/academic-policies-procedures/audit-policy/
**Parent**: https://catalog.northeastern.edu/graduate/academic-policies-procedures/

Full-time Northeastern University students may audit one class per term as an overload. In all colleges with the exception of the College of Professional Studies, there is no additional charge.

- Students are permitted to [petition](https://service.northeastern.edu/registrar?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB000019998) from the end of the course-add period to the end of the third week of classes.
- Permission is based on the availability of a seat in the class.
- Students must obtain advisor approval and meet the prerequisites and any other required approvals for the class.
- Instructor permission, as well as approval by the associate dean of the college offering the course, is required.
- The coursework required is at the discretion of the instructor.
- Once a student opts to audit a course, the audit status of the course cannot be changed.
- A signed [Petition to Audit](https://service.northeastern.edu/registrar?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB000019998) must be presented to the Office of the University Registrar during the designated audit-add period.
  - Students will not be registered for approved audited course(s) until after the add period is over for the intended term.
- Excluded courses are co-op, labs, language courses, any off-campus course, any online course, and any course required for the major or degree.
- Audits carry no academic credit.