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Continuing Education and Professional Studies
Degree StudentsYou are a degree student if you were formally admitted into a degree program at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and have completed at least one semester of classes on the Boulder campus. If you are eligible for financial aid on the Boulder campus, you will retain your eligibility for financial aid while enrolled through CE; however, your financial aid budget will be adjusted to reflect CE tuition and fees for the term in which you are enrolled solely at CE. Note: Course enrollment through CE must be for credit through Boulder Evening, Applied Music, Independent Learning, Self-paced or correspondence courses. If you are enrolled solely through CE for a term your financial aid will be credited to your CE bill. If you have excess financial aid from your bill, you will receive a refund from CE. Refund checks may be requested in person at the CE accounting office or by calling 303-492-2212. Direct deposit does not apply at CE. If you enroll in courses on Boulder campus in addition to CE courses, all of your financial aid will be credited toward your Boulder campus bill, not your CE bill. If your financial aid funds exceed your Boulder campus bill, you will be issued a refund from main campus BURSAR. You may need to use some of this refund to pay your CE bill. Reminder: if enrolled on main campus and CE for a term you have two separate bills. Some students find it necessary to take an independent learning course (telecommunication or correspondence) to augment their progression toward their degree. Before signing up for an independent learning course, it is very important that you confer with your advisor and a financial aid counselor to determine if the course will meet your degree requirements and be eligible for financial aid. If you are receiving Federal Student Aid (Pell Grant, SEOG, Work-Study, Perkins Loan, Subsidized and Unsubsidized Stafford Loan, and/or PLUS Loan) and are enrolling in an independent learning course, there are important rules you must be aware of. These rules apply even if you are already enrolled full-time and the correspondence course does not change your enrollment status. 1. In order for your correspondence or telecommunication course to count toward your enrollment status for a semester, you must be enrolled in the class by the end of the drop/add period for that semester, based on main campus term dates. See the Registrar’s Webpage for semester calendars. Financial aid eligibility is determined as of enrollment on the drop/add date. You may enroll in correspondence courses after that date but your financial aid eligibility will not increase as a result of the enrollment. 2. If you are enrolling in independent learning and they are correspondence courses only, regardless of the number of credit hours you are taking in excess of 6 credit hours each semester, federal regulations prevent us from considering you anything other than a half-time student. If you are eligible for a Pell Grant, you will only receive funding as a half time student. If you want to be considered a full time student, you must also be taking at least 6 credit hours of non-correspondence coursework. 3. A correspondence course is counted the same as a regular course when calculating Satisfactory Academic Progress. You must complete the course within the term in which you enrolled in the class. If you have not completed the course by the end of the term, you will not receive a grade. This will count as an incomplete when calculating Satisfactory Academic Progress. In order to maintain Satisfactory Academic Progress, you must complete at least 67% of the credits you attempt each term. Please the Satisfactory Academic Progress policy for more information. 4. In addition, if you are enrolling in correspondence courses only and are eligible for SEOG, Work-Study, Perkins Loan, Subsidized and Unsubsidized Stafford Loan, and/or PLUS Loan, your estimated cost of attendance for calculating your financial need will only include tuition, fees, and books (excluded are room and board, personal, medical and transportation expenses). 5. If you withdraw from the independent learning course after main campus census date, you will receive a W grade for the term. This may also impact Satisfactory Academic Progress and your completion rate. If you withdraw completely from the term, you may be eligible to keep all or a portion of the term, depending on how many days you remained enrolled in the course based on the length of the term. Please see the Financial Aid Withdrawal policy for more information. Non-degree StudentsEligible non-degree students taking courses necessary for admission into an undergraduate degree program may qualify for a Subsidized or Unsubsidized Federal Direct Stafford Loan and a Parent Plus Loan. Non-degree students taking courses necessary for admission into a graduate degree program may qualify for a Subsidized or Unsubsidized Stafford Loan.
If you are doing preparatory course work:
Necessary Forms:
A certification form verifies the course work for which the student is enrolling is in preparation for admission into a degree program. Students preparing for admission into an undergraduate degree program will need to meet with an academic advisor at Continuing Education to review the Admission counseling comment form (CEADM) and who also will certify your course enrollment form (CECCF). Students preparing for admission into a Masters program must meet with an academic advisor in the appropriate graduate program. This graduate advisor will certify the course enrollment form (CECCF). All completed forms must be submitted to the financial aid advisor for CE. 
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