Registration

The SoHE academic advisors are happy to help you before and during registration, and it is important that you’ve also taken steps to plan and be ready for each registration period.

See the Before/During/After Registration tabs below for helpful registration information.

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Important BIOlogy Course Number Updates beginning Fall 2024

To better reflect the diversity of Biology coursework offered at UT Austin, most upper-division Biology courses will be listed under the fields of Integrative Biology (INB) or Molecular Biosciences (MBS) rather than Biology (BIO) beginning with the Fall 2024 course schedule.

An equivalency guide for all BIO courses can be found here.

The majority of lower-division BIO courses, BIO 325 (Genetics), and BCH 369 Biochemistry will not be affected by this change.
Here’s a highlight of the courses that you may be taking as a Public Health Major, BS Nutrition major, and/or as a student on a Pre-Health Track:

BIO 326R→ MBS 326R (General Microbiology)

BIO 326M→ MBS 326M (Medical Microbiology)

BIO 226L→ MBS 226L (Microbiology Lab)

BIO 365S→ INB 365S (Physiology)

BIO 165U→ INB 165U (Physiology Lab)

BIO 446L→ INB 446L (Anatomy)

Spring 2024 academic Timeline

The Academic Calendar is the official listing for all the important academic events/dates each semester.

January 10th:
- Registration is open again for all students. See add & drop deadlines below, and check your Registration Information Sheet for access times!
January 16th (Tuesday): First class day
January 19th, 5pm (Friday): Fourth class day
- Deadline to add a class or waitlist by 5pm using the online registration system without departmental permission.
- Waitlists become inactive and no longer relevant after today.
January 22nd (Monday): Late add period starts
- Starting today, adding a class at this point requires "late add" permission from the department offering the class and is NOT guaranteed.
January 31st, 5pm (Wednesday): Twelfth class day
- Deadline to delete drop a class by 5pm using the online registration system. Drops after 5pm will be a "Q" drop remaining on transcript (does not affect GPA). See procedures here.
- This is the date the official enrollment count is taken. Last day an undergraduate student may add a class except for rare and extenuating circumstances.
March 4th and 5th: Summer & Fall 2024 course schedules posted and Registration Information Sheets (RIS) updated with your personal access times and holds.
March 11th - 16th: Spring Break
March 26th by 11:59pm (CST): DEADLINE DAY (online request form)
- Pass/Fail (becomes a general elective only and does not fulfill specific requirements)
- Q Drop
- Withdrawal (dropping all classes)
- Graduation Application due for May 2024 graduates.
- Walk Application due for those who graduated in December 2023 or who will be graduating in a future semester but want to apply to participate in May 2024 ceremony (must have 15 or fewer hrs remaning after May).
April 8th - 19th: Registration for Summer and Fall 2024
April 29th (Monday): Last class day and OTE Q Drop Deadline
May 2nd-4th, 6th: Final exams

You will receive a few Secure Academic Notes (SAN) via email this semester with important deadlines, policies, and procedures. These can also be checked on your SAN Inbox here.

Before/During/After Registration

Please also refer to the Departmental Information pages each semester before registration for specific updates about your major & SoHE classes (ex. prerequisite updates, class time changes, common registration issues, etc.)

Before You Register

Academic advising availability:

March 18th - April 19th: Shorter 15-minute appointments for summer & fall 2024 registration advising only.

Contacting us:

Email your advisor directly: The best way to connect with your advisor is by email (see below for contact information). Always include your EID. Be on the lookout for emails from us related to registration deadlines and updates on advising appointment availability!
Virtual office hours: Virtual office hour information will be posted here shortly. For now, email your advisor directly or headvising@austin.utexas.edu for assistance!

summer & fall 2024 Registration: April 8th - 19th

Preparing for registration and advising appointments:

View Classes, Registration Times, and Bars:

- Course Schedule
- Registration Information Sheet: Will be updated in early March.
- Registration
Clear Registration Holds: Check your RIS pages for any holds that may need to be cleared.
Review Requirements:
View the following to prepare for an advising appointment and registration.
- Interactive Degree Audit (IDA):
  - View your audit at least once or twice per semester, before & once after registration. You can select to include "future registered classes" after registration.
- Degree Checklists: list format; shows more details about course options
- Sample Four-Year Plans: semester layout as an example.
- Health Professions Office website: professional school prereqs and course timelines
- Core Curriculum: list of approved options for Core requirements
  - When searching for classes for Core requirements, use the core curriculum filter option (menu option #3) on the Course Schedule to ensure you're selecting an approved course. see screenshot here.
  - If you claimed AP U.S. History credit, this gives you HIS 315L credit.
  - Re-run your degree audit after registration to include "future registered courses" to ensure you're in the correct classes that will count.
- Automated Transfer Equivalency (ATE) database: To check tranferrability between Texas schools.
  - Common Government questions & acceptable combinations: see details here.
- Minor/Certificate requirements
Review Major-Specific Updates:
Registration news for your major is updated on the following pages of our website each semester. Also see our FAQ page.
Back-ups, Back-ups, Back-ups:
Make sure you plan for back-up courses/sections in your schedule and USE THE WAIT LISTS!

During Registration

Need a UGS but aren't a first-year student? You'll need to email the Signature Course office during registration to request to be added to a UGS 303 section. See Signature Course website for instructions for continuing students. The 302's are reserved to first-year students.

Email sigcourses@austin.utexas.edu during your registration access period including: EID and 3 unique #'s for UGS 303 sections that fit in your schedule.
Do not email before your registration period has opened.

Classes Closed? Select alternate classes if the classes you want are full, and check back again during add/drop! Review your degree plan to see if any classes that you had planned for later could be taken earlier.

Use Waitlists! “Add to Waitlist” is the second bullet on your registration page after you've attempted to add the class. See screenshot below!

Check the See My Waitlists page any time to change Swap classes, remove yourself from waitlists, or check waitlist errors even when registration is closed.

If a class doesn't have a waitlist available, the option won't appear and you need to keep checking for availability throughout registration and add/drop.
Selecting a SWAP CLASS is optional, but please do so if the waitlisted class has a time conflict or would put you over 17 hours.
You can be on a maximum of 4 different wait list
And a maximum of 2 waitlists for the same course.

Don’t panic! Your schedule will probably not be perfect during your first registration time, but do your best. Things tend to settle in your schedule around add-drops. As long as you have the number of hours you need and classes on your schedule, you’re going in the right direction.

After You Register

Create an updated Interactive Degree Audit that includes your "Future Registered Courses" to make sure you registered for things you need towards your degree. See this handout, How to Run & Read an IDA, about how to create and read your Degree Audit.

Make an appointment with your advisor to go over your 4-year degree plan. It will make future registrations go smoothly and will keep you on track to graduate. 30-minute advising appointments are still available after the last day of registration.

PAY TUITION! Don’t forget to pay tuition or confirm that you are paying with Financial Aid. Otherwise, you’ll be dropped from all your classes. Check the Academic Calendar for deadlines.

Check your Registration Information Sheet for add/drop times in January.