Enrollment Status Definitions

• Full-time plus: 15 credit hours or more (North Carolina Community College grant only)
• Full-time: 12 credit hours or more
• Three-quarter-time: nine to 11 credit hours
• Half-time: six to eight credit hours
• Less than half-time: five credit hours or less (state grants are not available to students at this enrollment status)

For financial aid purposes, full-time status is 12 credit hours or more per semester.

Veterans

For veterans using Chapter 33-Post 9/11, seven or more credit hours is required to receive a housing allowance.