Priority registration dates are based on your completed credits, currently registered courses (as of two days prior to the first day of registration), and the last digit of your student number. The student number priority is changed each quarter so that all students have the earliest possible priority every other quarter.
You may register on or after your registration date and make changes to your schedule. Your priority registration date will be listed in MyUW on your registration screen. You must register for at least one course before the first day of the quarter, otherwise a late registration fee will be charged.
During Registration Period 1, one half of the available spaces in each course are reserved for day two of each priority period. If a registration message states that the first day spaces are filled, then the other half will be released on day two of that priority period.
Registration Dates
Specific dates for each registration period are found on the Academic Calendar.
Autumn, Winter, and Spring Quarters
This registration period is open for continuing students currently enrolled or for students who completed the previous quarter. A “continuing student” is one who has registered at the same University of Washington campus in the same degree level (i.e., undergraduate to undergraduate) or degree level program (i.e., graduate to graduate) the preceding quarter, or preceding spring quarter, if registering for autumn quarter.
Registration Period 1 is open for:
- Continuing students currently enrolled
- Students who have completed the previous quarter
- Students with disabilities
- Post-baccalaureate students
- Undergraduate students who are quarter-off eligible.
- Graduating seniors with a degree application on file may also register on the first day of Registration Period 1 for the final two quarters.
- If you must postpone your graduation, you may save your two Graduating Senior Priority (GSP) registration quarters for your last two quarters of attendance by not registering before the regular senior priority registration day. Students who have used their GSP registration prior to their last two quarters will revert to the regular senior priority registration date.
- Continuing students with veteran status and spouses of veterans receiving benefits may register for classes on the first day of Period I Registration. Students who are not currently receiving veterans benefits will need to provide proof of veteran status to the Veteran and Military Resource Center in order to be eligible for priority registration during this period.
Registration opens at 6:00am for each priority date.
Summer Quarter
Students in the following categories begin registration at 6:00am on the first day of Registration Period 1:
- continuing UW graduate students,
- post-baccalaureate students,
- continuing students with veteran status and spouses of veterans receiving benefits, and
- students with disabilities.
- Graduating seniors with a degree application on file may also register on the first day of Registration Period 1 for the final two quarters.
- If you must postpone your graduation, you may save your two Graduating Senior Priority (GSP) registration quarters for your last two quarters of attendance by not registering before the regular senior priority registration day. Students who have used their GSP registration prior to their last two quarters will revert to the regular senior priority registration date.
Students in the following categories begin registration at 6:00am on the second day of Registration Period 1:
- new students with veteran status and spouses of veterans receiving benefits
Students in the following categories begin registration at 6:00am on the third day of Registration Period 1:
- continuing students in all other class standings,
- all new students,
- non-matriculated students, and
- returning students
Summer courses may be setup with course restrictions or exclusions that could delay when students can add them to their schedules. Students are responsible for noting these course restrictions or exclusions and abide by the timelines.
Cross-campus registration also occurs during Registration Period 1 for summer quarter.
Autumn, Winter and Spring Quarters
Registration Period 2 is primarily for newly admitted students and returning students.
New students with veteran status and spouses receiving veteran benefits are eligible to register one day earlier than the newly admitted students and returning students.
- Your admission offer will not transfer to a future quarter. If you cannot attend UW Tacoma for the quarter for which you have been offered admission, you will need to contact the Admissions Office about your options.
Continuing students may register any day during this period.
Cross-campus registration occurs during Registration Period 2 for autumn through spring quarters.
Registration Period 2 opens at midnight.
This period is from the first day of the quarter through the 7th calendar day of the quarter. It is open to all students for adds and changes. Courses dropped during this period will not appear on your transcript through the 2nd week of the quarter. Registration and other fees may apply.
Tuition Exemption Program students are eligible to register during Registration Period 3:
- UW Faculty/Staff: on the third day of the quarter.
- Washington State employees: on the fourth day of the quarter.
Access Students register on specific days within Registration Period 3. Review the Academic Calendar for specific dates.
During autumn, winter and spring quarters, non-matriculated students are eligible to register at any time during Registration Period 3.
Registration Period 3 opens at midnight.
Late Add Period
This period is open to all students. All courses added during the late add period require an course enrollment/entry code request. A $20 change of registration fee will be charged for any registration transactions made on a single day during this period. However, Summer Quarter B-term courses are not assessed the $20 fee until after the first week of B-Term.
The last day of this period is the last day to add a course, as listed on the Academic Calendar. Entry codes will be canceled at 1pm on that day.
After the Late Add Period
After the Late Add Period, you cannot add courses through registration on MyUW. For reasons of public safety and instructional quality, course registration is limited to the approved classroom capacity after the Late Add Period.
Guidelines for Petitioning to Add a Course after the Late Add Period
We recommend that you first consult with your academic advisor if you believe you have extenuating circumstances that warrant consideration of adding a course late.
Then, submit a Registration Transaction Request form with the following information:
- Submit your completed form with both instructor and dean/director signatures and/or supporting documentation with approvals. Requests submitted without all signatures, including your own, will be denied.
- If the course requires an entry code, obtain the entry code from the respective department and include it on your form. If the class does not normally require an entry code, it may be omitted from the late add petition.
- If you are requesting a course section change with the same instructor, an entry code is sufficient. You do not need to obtain the required signatures.
- All independent study courses require a faculty code. If this is missing, the course cannot be added. Contact your department for the faculty code.
- All variable credit courses require the number of credits to be listed.
Upon receipt of your completed form, Office of the Registrar staff will carefully examine it to make sure that you have provided all of the necessary information, along with your phone number or email where you can be reached if we have any additional questions. Staff will also verify that all of the necessary information has been included on the form, such as the Schedule Line Number (SLN), course name, number, section, and credits to be added. Once the course has been added, you will see the updates to your schedule via MyUW.
