Courses at WSU may be offered at a market-based tuition rate primarily for nondegree bound students. Degree-bound undergraduate students seeking additional skills to add value to their degree can take market-based tuition courses but can only apply the credit towards open electives in the overall credit hours of their degree. Market-based tuition courses cannot be applied towards specific college, major or minor course requirements. Nondegree seeking graduate students can take market-based tuition courses at any time. However, if the student later is admitted into a graduate degree program, the market-based tuition courses can only be applied toward degree requirements if the courses were completed as a part of an earned graduate certificate at Wichita State University, and if the courses are accepted by the graduate program through the submission and approval of the plan of study.