Span Plan Nontraditional Student Services offers an array of support services for nontraditional undergraduate students at Purdue University. The program, based on the belief that learning is a lifelong endeavor, provides services that positively impact the personal, academic, and career success of adult nontraditional students. Span Plan has provided guidance and support for adult nontraditional students since 1968, and is dedicated to assisting these students achieve their goals.

Span Plan provides services to nontraditional undergraduate students who meet at least one of the following criteria:

• 2-year delayed enrollment into post secondary education
• Financially independent for financial aid purposes
• Has dependents other than a spouse or domestic partner
• Married student/in a domestic partnership
• Transfer student age 23 or older