# Aggie One Stop
**Source**: https://aggie.tamu.edu/billing-and-payments/cost-and-tuition-rates/tuition-charged-for-excess-credit-hours
**Parent**: https://aggie.tamu.edu/financial-aid/types-of-aid/scholarships/international-student-scholarships
# Tuition Charged for Excess Credit Hours
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The State of Texas will not provide funds to state institutions of higher education for excess semester credit hours earned by a resident student. Since funding will not be provided by the State, and as permitted by State law, Texas A&M will charge tuition at the non-resident rate to all students who exceed their program's semester credit hour limit.\
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Effective with students initially enrolling in the fall 1999 semester and subsequent terms, excess credit hours are those hours attempted by a resident undergraduate student that exceeds by more than 45 hours the number of hours required for completion of the degree plan in which the student is enrolled. Effective with students initially enrolling in the fall 2006 semester and subsequent terms, excess credit hours are those hours attempted by a resident undergraduate student that exceeds by more than 30 hours the number of hours required for completion of the degree program in which the student is enrolled.\
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The limitation on excess credit hours applies only to those undergraduate students who first enter higher education in the fall of 1999 and thereafter. For purposes of excess hours, the resident undergraduate student includes a nonresident student who is permitted to pay resident tuition.\
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Excess credit hours may also affect eligibility for some [waivers and exemptions](https://sbs.tamu.edu/billing-payments/waivers-and-exemptions/index.html).\
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### Census Date Deadline
Degree program changes made after the census date of a given semester will not affect a student's tuition rates for that semester or previous semesters, even if the program changes allow students to no longer exceed their credit hour limit.\
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## [Exceptions](#a-exceptions-tynFv7)
The semester credit hours counted toward the limitation include all hours attempted by the student **except**:\
- AP credits earned in high school will be exempt.
- Semester credit hours earned by the student before receiving an associate or baccalaureate degree that has been previously awarded. (*Effective February 2024)*
- Semester credit hours earned by the student before graduating from high school and used to satisfy high school graduation requirements *(Effective June 2009)*.
- Semester credit hours earned by the student at a private or out-of-state institution.
- Semester credit hours earned by the student by examination or other procedure by which credit is earned without registering for a course for which tuition is charged.
- Military Science (ROTC) classes in the departments of MLSC, NVSC, and AERS will be exempt. (SOMS courses will count toward excess hour count)
- Semester credit hours earned by the student for the same or substantially similar course attempted 3 or more times at the same institution.
- Credit for remedial education courses, technical courses, workforce education courses funded according to contact hours, or other courses that would not generate academic credit that could be applied toward a degree program at Texas A&M University.
- The first 15 hours upon return to an institution after a 24-month break in enrollment, so long as 50 hours of non-exempt coursework was completed before the break.
- Any semester credit hours attempted 10 or more years before the student began his or her degree program that have been excluded from the student record due to an election of admission under the Academic Fresh Start program.
The semester credit hours counted toward the limitation include all hours attempted by the student **except**:\
- Semester credit hours earned by the student before receiving a baccalaureate degree that has been previously awarded
- Semester credit hours earned by the student by examination or other procedure by which credit is earned without registering for a course for which tuition is charged.
- Credit for remedial education courses, technical courses, workforce education courses funded according to contact hours, or other courses that would not generate academic credit that could be applied toward a degree program at Texas A&M University.
- Semester credit hours earned by the student at a private or out-of-state institution.
- Semester credit hours earned by the student before graduating from high school and used to satisfy high school graduation requirements (Effective June 2009).
- Hours not eligible for formula funding.
- Semester credit hours earned 10 or more years before the student began his or her degree program that have been excluded from the student record due to an election of admission under the Academic Fresh Start program.
## Contact the Office of the Registrar State Policies Team
[**Request an Appointment**](mailto:residency@tamu.edu?subject=Residency%20Appointment)
Appointments available upon request for Wednesday
and Thursday only.
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**Walk-In Hours**
Monday, Tuesday, and Friday
8:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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**Email**: [residency@tamu.edu](mailto:residency@tamu.edu?subject=Residency%20Inquiry)
**Phone**: 979-845-1085
**Campus Mail**: Registrar, MS 0100
**Address**: General Services Complex
750 Agronomy Road, Suite 1501
College Station, TX 77843
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##### Tuition Charged for Excess Credit Hours
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