Postponement of Study

• If a student wishes to postpone his/her studies for a semester, he/she needs to submit a form of postponement/suspension to the Admission and Registration Unit before the end of the drop-and-add period of the semester he/she wishes to postpone.
• A student may suspend his/her registration for two consecutive regular semesters, or four non-consecutive semesters.
• The registration of the student will be considered as cancelled if he/she fails to register after suspended semester(s).
• Students called for the UAE National Service program shall be granted a maximum of two extra semesters not counted in the suspended semesters and the maximum allowed study period of undergraduate.
• Summer semesters not included.
• Students whose registration is cancelled are required to re-apply to the University when considering returning to their previous program of enrollment, such students need to fulfil admission requirements at the date of readmission, and they have to get a new student number and any new fees will be applied. 
• All admission policies and requirements pertinent to the academic year to which they are applying to, need to be met. In no case may Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) policies and procedures substitute the admissions requirements.  All previously submitted academic records on file are considered as supporting documents to their new application.  
• The postponement period will not be considered as part of the maximum study duration. 
• A new student or a transfer student is not allowed to postpone his/her first semester at AFU.

Disenrollment from AFU

In the first semester of admission, if a student does ot enroll in courses, he/she will lose their AFU student number and will have to obtain a new student number if they wish to re-join, and any new fees will be applied.

Further, if the student fails to provide an official record of enrollment in courses at AFU for one or more semesters (excluding the summer semester), without an official notification of postponement, then he/she shall be disqualified from reserving a seat at AFU.