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In addition to registering for individual courses, students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are required to register for Residence at the University. In all Ph.D. programs and most M.A. programs, this is done by registering for Residence Units during the academic year (see below for exceptions). Residence Units, not credit points, provide the basis for tuition charges.

Two Residence Units are required for the free-standing Master of Arts degree. Six Residence Units are required for the M.Phil., Ph.D., and D.M.A. degrees; this total includes two Residence Units required for the M.A. earned as part of a Ph.D. degree.

A full-time student must register for a Residence Unit or Extended Residence (see below) each semester, whether or not the student is taking courses. Students in Ph.D. programs may not register part-time.
With the exceptions listed below, part-time students in free-standing M.A. programs may register for quarter or half Residence Units.

- A student who is registered for a half Residence Unit may enroll in no more than three courses.
- A student who is registered for a quarter Residence Unit may enroll in one or two courses.

Full and partial Residence Units are calculated using courses taken for a letter grade, Pass/Fail, or for R credit.

Exceptions to registration by the Residence Unit: Students in the free-standing Liberal Studies Master's programs in American Studies, East Asian Studies, Human Rights Studies, Islamic Studies, Jewish Studies, Medieval Studies, Modern European Studies or South Asian Studies or in the free-standing Master's programs in French Cultural Studies or Japanese Pedagogy are charged tuition by the credit point, not the Residence Unit, and do not register for Residence Units.

After completing the appropriate number of Residence Units, students are required to register for Extended Residence for any term in which they

- hold a University teaching or research appointment or
- are completing a degree requirement such as course work or language and qualifying examinations.

Advanced Ph.D. students who neither hold a University appointment nor are completing a degree requirement satisfy the continuous registration requirement by registering for Matriculation and Facilities (M&F), which allows them to make use of various University facilities. A Ph.D. student registers for M&F if he or she is writing or distributing the dissertation and is not engaged in any of the following: taking a course, holding an appointment as a teaching or research fellow, or completing a degree requirement other than the dissertation defense. In all other cases a Ph.D. student must register for either a Residence Unit or Extended Residence.