Statuses
In order to be registered and receive all appropriate graduate student benefits, students must be in an approved status. Broadly speaking, students are either in residence, that is, on campus using University resources to fulfill degree requirements and objectives, a majority of days per week for the academic term or year, or in absentia, that is, approved to be away from Princeton, in order to pursue the requirements of their degree program. (Non-degree students are always enrolled in regular, in residence, status.) For students who are in good academic standing and have personal reasons for wanting to stop out of their program temporarily, leaves of absence are available.