Continuous Enrollment

If you need more time to finish your Culminating Experience, you must stay enrolled each semester until you complete your degree. The Continuous Enrollment option lets you remain an active SFSU student while you complete your graduate work.

Key Points

Continuous Enrollment classes are listed as 499-level courses
No units are granted and no grade is assigned
Classes are offered only in fall and spring
Each SFSU college has Continuous Enrollment courses available every semester

This requirement applies to all students admitted or re-admitted in fall 2008 or later. Doctoral students should follow their program’s specific continuous enrollment and degree completion requirements.

Cost

$360 per class

How to Register

Step 1: Find Your Class

Fall 2025

Continuous Enrollment Classes
Class	Class Number
BUS 499	8888
EDUC 499	8889
ETHS 499	8890
HSS 499	8891
LCA 499	8892
SCI 499	8893

Step 2: Check for Course Requirement

Check your Student Center for this Hold message:

CPaGE 499 Course Requirement

If you do not have this hold, stop and contact Graduate Studies at (415) 338-2234.

Step 3 - Call to Register

Call (415) 405-7700. Enrollment is open throughout the semester.

See Policies and Procedures.

Retroactive Add

If you need to add Continuous Enrollment after the semester has ended, follow these steps:

Contact the Division of Graduate Studies at (415) 338-2234 to confirm you are term-activated for the semester and that the negative service indicator authorizing you to take the class is on your account.
Download and complete the Registration Form and Petition for Waiver of College Regulations.
On the petition form, check the retroactive add box, explain why your registration is late, and sign. You do not need to gather additional signatures—the College of Professional & Global Education will handle that.
Submit both forms to the College of Professional & Global Education in person or by Express Mail, along with a check or money order for the full course fee, payable to SFSU-CPaGE.