Course Search & Enroll - "Exceeded your credit maximum" or "Minimum credits not met" Error

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This document explains the meaning of the "Exceeded your credit maximum" or "Minimum credits not met" error messages and how you can resolve it.

What it means

UW–Madison has limits on the number of credits that you can take in a term: for Fall or Spring, 18 credits for undergraduates; 15 credits for Graduate School students; it varies for other types of students (Law, Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, etc.).

Some types of students also have a minimum number of credits required for their program. In such cases, the students cannot drop courses if the action will result in enrollment in less than their program's minimum load.

Summer Term Credit Limit

Students are limited to course enrollment equal to one credit per week of session. The eight-week general session allows for nine credits over the session period.
In addition to the session credit limit, undergraduate students can enroll in a maximum of twelve credits across the summer term.

For more information:

The enrollment system won’t let you enroll for credits outside the maximum or minimum allowed.

Course enrollment failed: You were not enrolled. Enrolling in this course would have exceeded your credit load maximum.


What to do

You've received an exception to the maximum or minimum credit limit but you're still seeing an error message? You might still be seeing an error message from the last time you attempted to add the course to your cart or enroll.

To revalidate the course in your cart:

  • Select the checkbox next to the course and click the Revalidate button.

Revalidate your cart

If the validation error cleared, you can now enroll (even if there's still an enrollment error message). Check the checkbox next to the course and click the Enroll button.



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OwnerDanielle C.GroupOffice of the Registrar
Created2018-11-02 15:16:36Updated2024-01-26 15:46:29
SitesDoIT Help Desk, Office of the Registrar
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