2024-2025 Law School Catalog

Application of Summer Credits to Final Semester

  1. Any day or evening division student may apply credits earned during a summer session to the student's final semester (without approval from the Assistant Dean for Academic Services), subject to the limitations set forth in paragraphs (2) and (3) below.
  2. Summer credits may not be used to reduce an evening division student’s course load to fewer than 7 credits, unless the student has enrolled in at least one Suffolk summer session and earned at least 3 credits through such summer study.
  3. Summer credits may not be used to reduce a day division student’s course load to fewer than 10 credits, unless the student has enrolled in at least one Suffolk summer session and earned at least 3 credits through such summer study.
  4. No student may use credits earned through summer study to eliminate a non-summer semester (i.e., graduate early) except as provided in paragraph C above.