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Early Graduation, Post-Graduation Quarter

Early Graduation

Undergraduate students are on academic year contracts. Graduate students can be on either academic-year or full-year contracts. If you graduate in the middle of your housing contract, you will need to submit a Request to Terminate Occupancy form in the myHousing portal and move out at the end of that quarter.

Post-Graduation Quarter Petitions

You may be able to remain in university housing for one additional quarter after Stanford confers your degree, as long as all enrolled students can be accommodated. (Degree conferral is distinct from the awarding of a diploma, which occurs during Commencement.) 

Undergraduate students are only eligible to apply for post-graduation quarters for spring quarter housing. Undergrads enrolled and in housing for spring who wish to stay for summer can apply for summer housing. It is important to note that Financial Aid is not available for undergraduate students on a post-graduation quarter after their degree is conferred.

Graduate students can apply for a post-graduation quarter for winter or spring. Students in full-year graduate housing contracts who are graduating at the end of spring can stay without filing a post-graduation quarter petition.

If you want to remain in housing during winter, spring or summer quarters after graduation without enrolling in courses, file a Post-Graduation Quarter petition by the fifth week of the preceding quarter.

The results will be announced two weeks after the deadline to file each quarter. For summer quarter, you do not need to file a petition if you live in graduate housing and have a full-year contract. While you will remain eligible for housing, you may not continue to have access to other on-campus services like the libraries or athletic facilities.

Post-Graduation Quarter petitions from students in graduate housing are not accepted for autumn quarter due to the demand for housing from enrolled students.

Please note that Financial Aid is not available for quarters after your degree has been conferred.

Eligibility

To remain in university housing as a non-enrolled student you must:

  1. Be an enrolled, matriculated Stanford student during the term preceding your request
  2. Currently live in a university residence
  3. Be in good academic and financial standing with the university
  4. Have your degree conferred by the first Thursday of the quarter in which you will not be enrolled

You are not eligible to live in university housing as a non-enrolled student if you plan to audit classes or work on an honor’s thesis, honor’s project, dissertation or outstanding incompletes before your degree can be conferred. If you are engaged in such academic work, but will not be taking classes, you may file a Permit to Attend petition (undergraduates) or a Graduation Quarter petition (graduate students) with the Registrar’s Office at a reduced fee.

Conditions

  1. If your Post-Graduation Quarter petition is approved and you move out before the end of the quarter, you will be charged a $450 release from contract fee.
  2. All terms and conditions of the Residence Agreement apply during your occupancy. Your post-graduation quarter is for one quarter. Your contract will be updated to the end of your post-graduation quarter.
  3. Approval of this petition depends on successful completion of your coursework requirements during the current academic quarter and conferral of your degree by the first Thursday of your post-graduation quarter.
  4. If this petition is approved and your degree is not conferred by the first Thursday of your post-graduation quarter, you will be required to register or immediately move out of university housing.
  5. Students in undergraduate housing are only eligible to apply for a post-graduation quarter for spring quarter. Approval is based on the student’s need to remain on campus as evaluated by the Housing Assignments office.  Housing Assignments may also consult with Residential Education and the Dean of Students Office as to prior behavioral concerns that may affect a student’s eligibility to remain in housing.
  6. Students in graduate housing may apply for a second graduation quarter. Approval of as second grad quarter petition depends the demand for housing from enrolled students. Two quarters is the maximum amount of time you can stay after you graduate.  

Eligibility requirements are subject to verification by Housing Assignments and are subject to change. If your registration/graduation status changes, please contact Housing Assignments as soon as possible.