Registration Policies

Who Can Register

You are eligible to register for classes if you are a continuing BYU student or a new student who has received an acceptance notice. Upon admission to BYU, you’ll be given registration eligibility. You may not attend classes unless you are officially registered, either for credit or audit.

Students who have not been admitted for regular day time enrollment have alternative options to take classes as Visiting Students or through Continuing Education.

A Continuing Ecclesiastical Endorsement is required for registration. If you have a withdrawal of membership, formal membership restrictions, or are disaffiliated from the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, you cannot attend BYU until you are in good standing.

For registration details for faculty, staff, and spouses – See Full-time Employee Registration.

Prerequisite Course Enforcement

Some classes have prerequisite courses you must take before you can register for them.

The following are rules concerning prerequisite course enforcement:

You cannot register for a class until you complete the course prerequisites through BYU coursework, transfer equivalencies, or substitutions.
You must complete the prerequisites with a passing grade.
You can register for a course in a future semester if you register for its prerequisite in a current or earlier semester.
If you fail the prerequisite, you will need to drop the course that requires the prerequisite.
If you drop or discontinue the prerequisite, you will automatically be dropped from the course that requires the prerequisite.
If you do not meet course prerequisites, the system informs you at the time of registration.
You cannot take a course and its prerequisite course in the same semester or term.
Prerequisite courses are not title code specific.
Permission-to-add codes override prerequisite enforcement.

Class Standing

To see how your class standing is calculated, please see the university catalog.

To find out when you can register, see the priority registration schedule.

Term Classes

A term class is eight weeks (half a semester). Classes are completed at an accelerated pace, but the tuition deadlines and charges are the same as semester classes. During fall and winter, Term 1 courses run during the first eight weeks of instruction, and Term 2 courses run during the last eight weeks of instruction. It is generally not recommended to register solely for term classes without also enrolling in the corresponding Fall/Winter semesters.

During spring and summer, most classes are taught by term, with a few semester-length offerings.

Stay informed of the important dates and deadlines for term classes by referring to the academic schedule.

Maximum Credit Hours

Undergraduate Students

If you are in good academic standing, you may register for up to 18 credit hours per semester or 9 credits per term.
With advisement center approval, you can register for up to 21 credit hours per semester or 11 credits per term.
- You cannot register for these additional hours until the first day of the semester.
Continuing Education classes or audited classes count as credit hours.
For exceptions, you must go through a petition process after the first day of school.

Graduate Students

You may take up to 22 credit hours per semester, 11 per term.
To register for more than the maximum allowable credits, you must work with the Graduate Studies Office (105 FPH, 801-422-4091).

Variable Credit Classes

Some departments offer variable credit classes, allowing you to select from a range of credit hours that corresponds to the amount of coursework required. It is advisable to consult with your professor or advisor before deciding on the number of credit hours.

If you want to adjust the number of credit hours after you have added the class to your schedule, you can edit the credit hours in MyMAP through the add/drop deadline of the semester or term. After the add/drop deadline, you would need to petition.

Envelopes

An envelope is a set of pre-bundled classes taken together. Rather than registering for individual courses, some major programs require students to register for an envelope—which includes a specific set of courses. Students can register for class envelopes by going to the "Register" tab on MyMAP and selecting "Add an Envelope" under the appropriate semester.

Envelopes can also be added via the Registration Cart. However, they cannot be waitlisted or added using a Permission-to-Add Code. Students can only drop or withdraw from an envelope as a whole. To withdraw from individual courses within an envelope, contact the department overseeing that envelope.

Envelopes are also used by freshmen to register for mentored seats. Unlike other envelopes, mentored seat envelopes only include one class; however, the same rules apply to these seats as other envelopes. For more information regarding mentored seats, please contact the Office of First-Year Experience.

Auditing Classes

Definition of an Audit

Auditing a class means registering for a class without receiving credit or a grade. Audited classes and classes for credit have the same tuition cost. While audited classes do not count toward your number of credits, they do count toward the maximum credit hours allowed for a semester or term. An audited class will appear on your current semester or term registration with a “V” in the grade column. However, after the end of the semester or term, the class will not appear on your transcript.

Registering for an Audit Class

Obtain a permission-to-audit code from your instructor during the first six days of a semester or term.
To change a class to an audit:
- First, drop the class.
- Then, re-add the class using the permission-to-audit code.
Ensure the first five digits of the permission-to-audit code say “AUDIT” to correctly add the class for audit.
Wait until the first day of classes to receive and use a permission-to-audit code.

Note:

Audited classes do not appear on transcripts for completed semesters, do not count for enrollment verification purposes, and do not count toward financial aid or scholarship eligibility. However, audit hours do count toward maximum hours per semester and tuition charges. Students must be officially enrolled either for credit or audit to be eligible to attend class.

If you are not a day-continuing student at BYU and are interested in auditing classes, please see "Continuing Education" below. If you are a BYU employee, visit hrs.byu.edu/tuition-benefit for tuition benefit information."

Continuing Education

Please refer to the following pages if you are interested in taking classes other than daytime enrollment classes:

Accessibility

BYU offers a variety of accommodations for students with disabilities. If you need help with registration or other academic services, contact the University Accessibility Center.