If you have been away from SPU for one, two, or three quarters (including summer) after completing courses as a matriculated student, you are still considered an “active” student at SPU. You may register for classes at SPU without completing paperwork for undergraduate admission. Any transfer work completed during your absence must be submitted to the Office of the Registrar on an official transcript.

If you are returning to SPU, after an absence of four or more quarters (including summer), you must reapply to the University:

• Fill out the abbreviated reapplication form by the deadline of your intended quarter of entry.
• Submit official transcripts for any coursework completed at another institution while away.
• Undergraduate Admissions will inform you if additional credentials need to be submitted. 

Degrees completed during your absence will not be recognized. You will be required to complete the general education curriculum in effect at the time of your re-admission.

If you originally matriculated at SPU directly from high school and earned SPU credit, but are now readmitted, you are considered a transfer student. However, your class standing at time of original matriculation will determine the courses you are required to complete.  

For instance, if you originally matriculated as a freshman or sophomore, you would still be expected to complete UFDN 1000 and eight “W” credits, even if you return to SPU with junior standing.

Readmission of Service Members

Services members will be readmitted to SPU with the same academic status they had before ceasing attendance due to their military service. Students must notify the Office of the Registrar of their military service and their intention to re-enroll.

Military Service is defined as:

Military service (or service in the uniformed services)—Voluntary or involuntary service in the armed forces, including service by a member of the National Guard or Reserve on active duty, active duty for training, or full-time National Guard duty under federal authority, for a period of more than 30 consecutive days under a call or order to active duty of more than 30 consecutive days. This does not include National Guard service under state authority.

Service member—someone who is a member of, applies to be a member of, performs, has performed, applies to perform, or has an obligation to perform, service in the uniformed services.

Appropriate officer—A warrant, commissioned, or noncommissioned officer authorized to give such notice by the military service concerned.

Armed Forces—the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, and Coast Guard.

Active duty—full-time duty in the active military service of the United States. Active duty includes full-time training duty, annual training duty, and attendance, while in active military service, at a school designated as a service school by law or by the Secretary of the military department concerned. Active duty does not include full-time National Guard duty.

The school is not required to readmit the student if it determines

• that there are no reasonable efforts it can take to prepare her to resume the program at the point where she left off or to enable her to complete the program, or 
• that after it makes reasonable efforts (those that do not place an undue hardship on the institution), the student is not prepared to resume or complete the program.

If the school determines the student is not prepared to resume the program with the same academic status at the point where they left off or will not be able to complete the program, the school will make reasonable efforts at no extra cost to assist the student become prepared or to enable to complete the program.