Enrollment Status [Education] Law & Legal Definition

According to 34 CFR 690.2 (c) [Title 34 – Education; Subtitle B -- Regulations of the Offices of the Department of Education; Chapter VI -- Office of Postsecondary Education, Department of Education; Part 690 -- Federal Pell Grant Program; Subpart A -- Scope, Purpose and General Definition], the term enrollment status means “full-time, three-quarter-time, half-time, or less-than-half-time depending on a student's credit-hour work load per academic term at an institution using semesters, trimesters, quarters, or other academic terms and measuring progress by credit hours.”