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Courses Excluded from the "Six-Drop" Limit

Drops from the following types of courses are exclude from the "six-drop" limit:

  1. Courses taken by students while enrolled in high school or early college high school for dual credit or for college credit only (early admissions).
  2. Courses taken at private and out-of-state colleges and universities.
  3. Remedial, developmental or other courses such as continuing education courses that do not apply to a degree.
  4. Withdrawals that require co-requisite enrollment such as a lecture class with a required laboratory are counted as one withdrawal. This does not apply to accelerated instruction in which student is enrolled in a co-requisite developmental course with an intensive reading, mathematics or writing college credit course.
  5. Complete withdrawal of all courses in a semester in a single transaction, constituting withdrawal from the institution.
  6. Courses not submitted for state funding such as third-course repeats and developmental courses that exceed the 18 semester credit hour limit. This includes CTC courses offered at CTC locations outside Texas and online courses taken by students located outside of Texas whose legal state of residence is not Texas.
  7. Course withdrawal as a result of documented college error.
  8. CTC courses which were withdrawn from for good cause as listed in the "Six-Drop" Rule Exceptions (see below).