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In order to register, you must first be advised by your faculty adviser. Your faculty adviser will assist you in filling out an Advising Form during your advising session with them, which will include your name, EID, and the courses you have been advised to take for the following semester. You must then turn the completed and signed form in to EDP (instructions on the form), and the EDP registration staff person will remove your advising bar and may contact you with follow-up questions. Note: all students MUST must go over their Program of Work with the faculty adviser during this advising session.
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You will register for each semester and summer session online through the Registrar’s online services. EDP students should be advised You should plan to advise at the first opportunity and register early, as courses can fill and delaying advising/ registration may limit your ability to add the courses you need. General registration access periods are available via the UT Academic Calendar online, and your exact/specific registration times are available via your Registration Info Sheet (RIS), accessible via the UT Registrar's page. You must also register as soon as possible to ensure your course is not cancelled due to low enrollment; late registration can also affect your instructor’s ability to obtain a TA for the course. Do not register for classes that are not on your Advising Form. If you wish to change your advised class schedule, you must notify your faculty adviser and the EDP registration staff person. If you have issues getting into any of your EDP classes, or have other registration issues not addressed on this page, contact Kim.
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During the fifth through twelfth class days of the long semesters, and the third and fourth day of summer sessions, SZB 504 the EDP registration staff person can make adds and drops for students who have their faculty advisers’ approval for the changes. After these periods, students are permitted to add classes only under exceptional circumstances. If you add a class late, you must e-mail the Graduate EDP Graduate Coordinator the circumstances that led to your late course addition. These circumstances will be reviewed by the EDP Graduate Adviser and, if there is still space available in the courses you need, and if he decides to petition the Dean to allow you to add the course late, you will need to: complete an add/drop form; , obtain the signature the instructor; , obtain the Graduate Adviser’s signature , along with the accompanying petition; and , walk those to the Graduate Dean’s Office in the Main Building, and plan to spend some time in Main Building offices to get approval for the late add and to pay the tuition and fees.
Graduate students may drop a class through the last class day of a semester, and the instructor will assign a symbol of Q (Quit) or F (Fail). The The form you will need to drop a class can be obtained from the Graduate Coordinator. Because the form requires the signatures of both the instructor and the Graduate Adviser, it is best to decide to drop a course before the last week of classes (and certainly prior to being in a failing status in the course). If you wait until the last week of class, you will need to walk the paperwork to the Graduate School yourself in order to ensure timely recording of the change.
Check your registration carefully! Please verify through the online registration system, and with the instructor on the first day of class, that you are, in fact, registered for the courses you intend to take. Some courses have the same course numbers but different topics, slightly different names, etc. Several students have received an F or NC (no credit) grade at the end of a semester after diligently attending class and completing assignments, but for the wrong class! This typically happens for courses with the same EDP course number, but different unique numbers, or for courses with similar names but different EDP course numbers.
An F or NC grade cannot be changed except with approval of the Graduate Dean. The Graduate Dean does not take kindly to petitions of this nature from the Graduate Adviser, as graduate students are expected to be responsible enough to ascertain they are in the correct class! classes. Please, therefore, take the time each semester to be certain you register for the correct courses.
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