Course Registration
Spring 2025 Registration Information and Resources
Take a look at your holds. Make sure to complete your Student Onboarding Tasks and get your advising hold removed by your primary advisor. You will not be able to register for classes if you have holds.
Important Dates For Current Students
- October 18
- Login to Workday and complete any Onboarding tasks that remain. This is required before registration can be accessed.
- Access the Academic Plan and Saved Schedules
- Registration Appointments available to view in Workday (Log into Workday > Go to “My Academics” app > Click on “View My Registration Appointments”)
- October 21
- Lower division advising begins
- Major/minor advising begins
- November 4-8: Self-service registration begins. Your registration appointment is available on your Workday site. (See navigation information above.) During this first registration week in Workday, University Registrar staff will be available in the office in 110 Reynolda Hall and via Google Chat beginning at 7:30 a.m. each day.
- November 7: Departments and programs begin to adjust reserved seats based on enrollment demands.
- November 18: Students may request credit overload (see the Office of Academic Advising website for more information).
- November 19: Reserved seats released.
Please reference the Academic Services Calendar for upcoming dates.
- Add and Drop Period (Spring 2025 Semester):
| Term Period | Last Day to Add | Last Day to Drop |
|---|---|---|
| First Part of Term | January 17 | January 30 |
| Full Term | January 28 | February 18 |
| Second Part of Term | March 10 | March 27 |
All Student Advising and Holds
- There are no more PINs. Instead, you must get your advising hold removed by your advisor.
- All students, including those currently abroad, must be advised by their advisor(s) between October 21 – November 1.
- All students must have their advising hold removed to access registration.
- ONLY an advisor can remove the advising hold; the Office of the University Registrar CANNOT remove it.
- Complete your student onboarding tasks to remove the onboarding hold.
- Log into Workday > Go to “View Profile” > Click on “Action Items and Holds”
Registration Appointment
- Registration Appointments will be available to view in Workday on October 18.
- Earned hours are calculated as of October 18, excluding pre-college transfer credits (AP/IB credits).
- Find your registration appointment by logging into Workday > Go to “My Academics” app > Click on “View My Registration Appointments”.
- Continuing student self-service registration begins November 4.
Automatic Waitlist and Reserved Seats
The information in this section applies to the Undergraduate College, School of Business (undergraduate), Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and School of Divinity.
- If a course section is full or has remaining capacity that is reserved for a specific group of students, then you can place yourself on the waitlist for the course section. For instructions on how to waitlist for course sections, click here.
- Workday will automatically enroll you into the course section when a seat becomes available provided you meet all criteria. Once waitlisted, make sure you are eligible to be auto-promoted into the next available seat:
- You meet the course section eligibility rule (e.g., permission of instructor, prerequisite, or prerequisite override).
- You have no time conflicts. Time conflicts include registration for another course section that has any time overlap with the waitlisted course section. For example, if you are registered for a course section that meets from 9:30-10:15 and you want to register for another course section that meets from 10:00-10:45 on the same day, you have a time conflict and will not be registered for the waitlisted course if a seat opens.
- You are not registered for another section of the same course.
- You will not go over the credit hour limit for your unit of enrollment (17 hours for the undergraduate College and 18 hours for the undergraduate School of Business).
- Only waitlist for course sections you really want as the system will auto-promote you to the first available course section that you have chosen and for which you are eligible.
- Departments may choose to revise their reserved seating rules during the second week of registration.
- Starting the third week of registration, reserved seats will be released except for seats reserved for incoming first-year students.
- Your position on the waitlist will be displayed as well as the total number of people currently on the waitlist. Please note that waitlist position is not necessarily an indication of likelihood of being registered for the course section. Students with higher positions will be skipped when a seat opens if they do not meet all criteria to be automatically promoted to the course section. Students with lower positions may meet reserved seating requirements (if any exist) and thus be automatically registered before students who do not meet the criteria of those reserved seating requirements.
Course Section Eligibility
- Starting October 18, you will be able to submit eligibility override requests.
- Before registration begins, get override requests submitted for course sections that require “permission of instructor” or for course sections that need prerequisite override.
- For instruction on how to submit a Course Section Prerequisite Override Request, click here.
Registration Help
- See our Registration How-to’s and FAQs page.
- The Office of the University Registrar staff will be available in person at 110 Reynolda Hall and via Google Chat during extended office hours, 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. November 4 – 8.
- Google Chat is the most efficient way to contact us for assistance during self-service registration.
- For questions about Workday, see Project Wakeday’s Student FAQ.