Filing Fee is a reduced fee for graduate students who have completed all requirements for the degree, except for filing the master's thesis or doctoral dissertation or taking the master's comprehensive examination.
To be approved for the use of the Filing Fee a student must be continuously enrolled during all periods of study and research that have required the use of University facilities or faculty consultation. Two semesters of approved withdrawal status is permitted; however, the student must be registered in the semester or summer (4 units minimum in summer) immediately preceding the one for which Filing Fee status is requested. For example, to use the Filing Fee in Fall, you must have registered in the previous spring or summer; and to use the Filing Fee in the Spring, you must have been registered during the previous Fall semester.
Filing Fee is valid for the length of the semester for which Filing Fee status has been approved, up to the deadline for a degree in that semester. The Filing Fee may be used only once. However, students currently in a graduate program who have used the Filing Fee to file a master's degree in spring semester 2002, or in a prior semester, will be permitted to apply for the use of Filing Fee for the doctoral degree.
Students may not hold an academic graduate student appointment (i.e., GSR, GSI) while on Filing Fee. You should consult the Department on other means of financial support while on Filing Fee status. Filing Fee status for those students with their financial support coming from LB is prohibited.
Students must apply for the Filing Fee by the end of the first week of classes of the semester in which they intend to file.