General Information for Admitted Applicants:

Orientation

Housing

Finalizing Your Graduate Admission

Transfer of Credit Earned at Another Institution

Enrollment of Courses

Change of Graduate Program

The Office of Graduate Studies hosts a New Graduate Student Orientation program just prior to the start of each Fall semester. All new graduate students are expected to attend. Students admitted in the Spring and Summer semesters are invited to attend the Fall orientation; however, for students admitted in semesters other than Fall, one-on-one orientation sessions are available through the Office of Graduate Studies (727) 873-4567 by appointment. To register for orientation, please visit: http://www.stpete.usf.edu/spgrad/orientation.htm

Residence Hall One offers apartment-style living on campus.  Additional housing

information is available through Student Affairs.

If your admission is provisional (see Types of Admission), pending the

receipt of missing application materials, you have the first semester of

enrollment to provide those items.

Failure to submit the necessary materials may result in a registration

hold for the student's second semester of study.

Transcripts must be official, in English, and must show the award

of the degree earned.  Test Scores must be submitted to our office

directly from the Educational Testing Service. The institutional code for

USF is 5828.

Up to 9 graduate-level credit hours earned at another institution may be

transferred into the admitting program at the discretion of the admitting

program. Contact your program director for information (see

Graduate Programs for contact information). Up to 12 graduate-level
hours of non-degree seeking credit from any institution within the
University of South Florida System (USF St. Petersburg, USF Tampa,
USF Sarasota-Manatee, or USF Polytechnic) may be accepted into a USF
St. Petersburg graduate degree program upon discretion of the graduate
program's faculty advisor.

ALL students must provide proof of immunization to Student Health

Services before they will be allowed to register for classes. These forms

are sent to admitted students by the Office of Graduate Admissions. All

necessary forms may be downloaded from the SHS site.

Students may register online using OASIS or by telephone.

Students must enroll for the term to which they have been admitted

to validate their admission. Students who cannot enroll for the

admitted term must request a Deferment of Admission directly from the

admitting program.

Graduate students who decide after entering a program that they wish

to change graduate programs must do so through the Office of

Graduate Studies.

Change of program requests will not be considered for graduate students

in their first semester of study. It is up to the discretion of the student's

original program to determine if a change of program is appropriate and

will be granted.

The change of program request form must be signed both by the current
program and the new program, after which it must be submitted to
Graduate Studies for approval.

Admitted graduate applicants who have not yet enrolled and decide they

would like to enter a program other than that which has admitted

them must submit a new online application for the new program and request
that their application materials be sent to the new program for consideration.
This may result in a later term of entry.