The Filing Fee is a reduced fee for graduate students who have completed all requirements for the degree except for filing the master's thesis or doctoral dissertation. The Filing Fee is not a form of registration or equivalent to registration. If students wish to use University services that are supported by registration fees, they must pay those fees.
Those students who are on Filing Fee, and thus are not registered and enrolled, will not be approved for academic student appointments beginning with the Fall 2002 semester.
The Filing Fee will apply for the length of the semester for which Filing Fee status has been approved, up to the deadline for filing for a degree in that semester.
The Filing Fee may be used only once. However, students currently in graduate programs who have used the Filing Fee to file for a master's degree in a prior semester, will be permitted to apply for Filing Fee for the doctoral degree.
Students may file for graduate degrees during Summer Sessions if they are registered and enrolled. Degrees for which students file in Summer Sessions will be awarded as of the end of the following fall semester. Summer Sessions enrollment, for purposes of the regulations covered in this memo, must be for a minimum of four units.
As in the past, to be approved for the Filing Fee, students will have to have been continuously enrolled during all periods of study and research that have required use of University facilities or faculty consultation. Two semesters of approved withdrawal arepermitted, but the student must be registered in the semester (or in a Summer Session) immediately preceding the one for which Filing Fee status is requested.
Students must apply for the Filing Fee by the end of the first week of classes of the semester in which they intend to file.
The Filing Fee Application and other information can be found on the Berkeley Graduate Division website.