Session Start
12/15/25
Session End
1/9/26
Maximize Your Winter Break With Our Flexible, Fully Online Winter Session.
Take select graduate and undergraduate courses online beginning this December.
Applications and registration are now closed for all students.
FAQs
Winter session offers undergraduate and graduate students an opportunity to further their educational goals. All winter session courses will be delivered online through Canvas.
During winter session, students can get a head start on the upcoming semester, complete core course requirements, take classes within majors, and earn extra credits to accelerate graduation.
Session dates: December 15, 2025 – January 9, 2026
No class activities will be held on December 24, 25, January 1, and weekends.
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Application and Registration deadline: December 10, 2025.
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Payment deadline: December 11, 2025.
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Current MC students should register for winter session online.
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Non-MC (visiting) students should apply for winter session online here.
For questions regarding winter session registration, contact the MC Registrar’s Office.
Current Mississippi College undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to attend.
Non-MC (visiting) students are eligible to apply at our visiting student application https://go.mc.edu/register/nonMC.
New students who are pursuing a degree or certificate at MC are not eligible to take the Winter session their first term.
Students may choose from a list of online winter session courses.
Locate MC’s winter session courses (available Monday, October 27). Select the Spring 2026 term, and select “Winter Session” under the Part of Term selection.
Due to the compressed winter session calendar:
- Undergraduate students may take no more than six credit hours.
- Graduate students may take no more than three credit hours.
Only students in good academic standing should consider enrolling in winter session.
- Undergraduate
- Resident/non-resident: $450 per credit hour
- $100 Registration Fee
- Graduate
- Resident/non-resident: $600 per credit hour
- $100 Registration Fee
Winter session courses will be billed separately at the above tuition rates. Although financial aid cannot be used to pay for the winter session courses, the credit hours taken can be combined with spring semester hours when qualifying for Spring 2026 financial aid.
For the purpose of calculating tuition charges, winter session is considered a separate term from the spring semester. Winter session tuition is computed on a per-credit-hour basis.
You may combine winter session and spring semester hours to determine full-time eligibility for spring financial aid and scholarships only. Any "W" grades or "F" grades earned because the student stopped attending will not be eligible for federal and/or state grant awards.
For purposes of Spring 2026 financial aid eligibility, winter session hours are combined with spring semester hours. In other words, the total number of credit hours taken between winter session and spring semester will be used to determine the amount of a student's financial aid.
Yes. Students can combine hours to get full-time status, but they cannot combine hours to meet the tuition cap. Full-time status is used for things like financial aid, scholarships, parent’s insurance, etc.
Please note that on-campus housing requirements stipulate that students must be enrolled in 12 hours for the Spring semester. Thus, students with scholarships which require the student to live on-campus must enroll in a minimum of 12 hours for the spring semester in addition to hours taken during the winter session.
MC will use the combined enrolled hours for the winter session and the spring semester to determine a student’s eligibility for MC scholarships for the spring semester. As long as a student’s combined enrolled credit hours are 12 or more for the winter and/or spring terms, we will disburse any MC scholarships for the spring semester.
If a student officially withdraws from any classes during the winter session, those credit hours will NOT be factored into the minimum 12 hours needed to receive an MC scholarship for the spring semester.
Furthermore, keep in mind that any student receiving aid from the state of Mississippi (e.g., MTAG, MESG, HELP, and FAITH) requires a minimum of 12 hours combined between winter and spring terms.
The cost of winter session is borne solely by the student (no financial aid can be applied). However, the hours taken during the winter session can be combined with the spring semester hours to determine Spring 2026 financial aid eligibility.
- Enrollment for winter session and spring term can be combined to determine a student's Pell grant award for Spring 2026. If a student is enrolled in only the winter session, those hours will be used to determine Pell grant award. Any dropped classes or classes where the student received an "F" and stopped attending will be excluded from the final award calculation. Completed classes with an earned "F" can be included in the Pell grant award.
- For questions regarding winter session financial aid, contact financialaid@mc.edu.
Housing will not be available for winter session.
No, like the summer term, all institutional scholarships, including the Speed Scholarship and all athletic scholarships, cannot be applied to winter session courses.
