Course Registration
Summer 2025 Registration
Registration opens on March 17 at 8:00 a.m. for current WFU undergraduate students with at least 55 earned hours, and at 8:30 a.m. for current WFU students with 54 or less earned hours. Visit the Summer Session website for details.
Fall 2025 Registration Information and Resources
Make sure to complete your Student Onboarding Tasks to remove the onboarding hold which prevents registration. You will not be able to register for classes if you have holds.
Important Dates
- Wednesday, July 9: Registration begins for transfer students
- Wednesday, July 16: Registration begins for first year students
- Monday, August 25: First day of classes
Please reference the Academic Services Calendar for upcoming dates.
Add and Drop Period (Fall ’25 Semester):
| Term Period | Last Day to Add | Last Day to Drop |
|---|---|---|
| First Part of Term | August 28 | September 10 |
| Full Term | September 2 | September 29 |
| Second Part of Term | October 20 | October 31 |
- All students, including those currently abroad, must be advised by their advisor(s) between March 17-March 28.
- All students must have their advising hold removed by their primary advisor to access registration.
- ONLY your primary 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 Appointments will be available to view in Workday on March 7.
- Earned hours are calculated as of March 28, excluding pre-college (AP/IB) transfer hours.
- 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 April 1-4.
The information in this section applies to the undergraduate College, undergraduate School of Business, Graduate School of Arts & 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 (i.e., prerequisite) or have a 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 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. and you want to register for another course section that meets from 10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. 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 do not have any holds that prevent registration, including financial and onboarding holds.
- You will not go over the hour limit (17 hours for the undergraduate College and 18 hours for the undergraduate School of Business).
- Only add yourself to the waitlist for course sections you genuinely intend to take, as the system will automatically enroll you in the first available course section that you have selected and for which you meet the requirements.
- Departments may choose to revise their reserved seating rules during the first two weeks of registration.
- On the Thursday of the second 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.
- Starting March 7, you will be able to submit Course Section Prerequisite 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.
- 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. April 1-4.
- 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.