Excessive Hours Tuition

Beginning Fall 2025 and pursuant to Texas statute Tuition for Repeated or Excessive Undergraduate Hours (TEC 54.014) and Tuition Rates for Certain Doctoral Students (TEC 54.012), Texas undergraduate resident students (excluding Accelerated Online) who enrolled for the first time in a Texas public institution of higher education in Fall 1999 or later and Texas PhD resident students (excluding Accelerated Online) will be charged Excessive Hours Tuition at a rate of $300 per credit hour after exceeding an established number of excessive hours beyond their degree plan*.

*Current undergraduate students who have completed 90 hours or more and current Doctoral students who have completed 60 hours or more by the end of the Summer 2025 term will be grandfathered and not subject to Excessive Hours Tuition.

Excessive Hours State Law:

Semester you first enrolled in a Texas public institution of higher education Your excessive hours limit (hours allowed in excess of your minimum degree hours)
Prior to fall 1999 No limit
Fall 1999 through summer 2006 45 hours
Fall 2006 and thereafter 30 hours

  • Resident undergraduate students who enrolled initially in the Fall 1999 semester or subsequent semesters cannot exceed more than 45 hours of the number of hours required for completion of the degree plan in which they are enrolled. Any hours beyond 45 are considered excessive and are subject to Excessive Hours Tuition.
  • Resident undergraduate students who enrolled initially in the Fall 2006 semester or subsequent semesters cannot exceed more than 30 hours of the number of hours required for completion of the degree plan in which they are enrolled. Any hours beyond 30 are considered excessive and are subject to Excessive Hours Tuition.
  • Resident doctoral students who have more than 99 credit hours of doctoral work at an institution of higher education are considered excessive and subject to Excessive Hours Tuition.