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HOW MANY CREDITS DO I NEED IN ORDER TO QUALIFY FOR MY ASSISTANTSHIP AND BE A FULL-TIME STUDENT? 

In short, you need to register for 6 credit hours. Please see below for more details, from the Graduate Catalog:

Each graduate assistant must be a full-time graduate student. Full-time status for assistantships means 12 or more graduate semester hours of classes. However, the FTE level of the assistantship assignment is converted to equivalent credit hours and combined with actual class hours in order to meet the full-time requirement. A quarter-time assistantship (0.25 FTE) equates to 3 class hours and a half-time assistantship (0.50 FTE) equates to 6 class hours. This means that a student who has, for example, the typical 0.50 FTE assistantship needs to register for only 6 class hours in order to meet the full-time requirement (6 assistantship equivalent hours plus 6 actual class hours). 

For full details, please visit https://catalog.ua.edu/graduate/about/academic-policies/registration-assistantships/​