An authorized official or office can place a hold on a student’s record for reasons including, but not limited to, admissions, academics, graduation, business, financial aid, student accounts, disciplinary, housing-related, or immunization reasons. A hold may prevent a student from registering for courses or other university activities, such as accessing their residence hall. Registration or related activities will not be possible until all holds are reconciled and removed. 

Student account holds are placed on the student records if semester or term charges are not paid in full, on a payment plan, and/or covered by anticipated financial aid funds or certified loan funds by each semester’s due date. Once the Offices of Financial Aid or Student Accounts determine that the student made satisfactory repayment arrangements, the authorized official/office will remove the hold, and/or the hold is automatically lifted within fifteen minutes of the student account reflecting a zero balance.

The Center for Wellness will place an immunization hold on a student account of full-time Massachusetts resident students who have not presented completed immunization forms to the university by Massachusetts law. 

Students are responsible for ensuring that their student account is free of holds.

For more information please see the complete Policy on Holds.