Registration
ONLINE STUDENTS
Register for Courses
- New Students: Shortly after you’ve been admitted, your academic advisor will email you to schedule a class registration meeting via their calendar. If you don’t hear from your advisor (as soon as you’d like) and would like to email or call them yourself, email registrar@miu.edu and ask for your advisors contact information. For new Fall start students, you and your advisor will choose classes for both the Fall and Spring on the current academic year. For new Spring start students, you will choose for that Spring’s classes only. Around April/May of this first spring term (when the next academic year’s course offerings have been anounced), your advisor will contact you again to schedule a metting to choose and regsiter for classes for the following Fall and Spring terms, i.e. the next academic year.
- Continuing Students: Around April/May each spring, your academic advisor will contact you asking you to schedule a class registration meeting via their calendar.
Dropping/Changing Courses
In a block system, even on the first day of the course, a great deal of material is covered. For this reason, students are advised to plan ahead; if you want to change your course, it is recommended to meet with your advisor before the block starts and decide on another course. However, if you decide to change a course once you’ve started, please keep two factors in mind. 1) If you only want to drop an online course and NOT add one in its place, you can do so up until 11:59p (central time) the first sunday of the course (all courses start on a Monday) by simply sending a text or email to your advisor. This means you have 7 days to drop a course. If you do, it will be removed from your record, as if you never took it all. 2) If you’d like to change from one course to the next once the course starts, this is usually no problem on day 1 or 2 of the course. On day 3, you’ll likely need to email the instructor asking permission. They might or might not let you add the course at that point. After day 3, while it’s possible an instrcutor will still le tyou add the course, it’s unlikely.
To simply drop a course, students can simply fill out the Course Drop or Withdrawal form.
To change from one course to another, students must contact (and get approval from) their academic advisor to do this for them. They might also need approval from the instructor teaching the course the student wants to add (see above).
ON-CAMPUS STUDENTS
Register for Courses
- New Students: Your Admissions representative will give you your registration schedule. Be sure to bring your check-in sheet when you come for your badge photo and for registration.
- Continuing Students: Come to the Enrollment Center at the start of each semester on the Saturday before Forest. If not attending Forest then come to the Enrollment Center on the Friday before your first course starts.
- New Undergraduate Students: During your first 6-weeks at the University, in the first course, every new student meets with an academic advisor to help select his or her courses.
- Continuing Undergraduate Students: Meet with your academic advisor each Spring to select your courses for the following academic year. (If you don’t know who your academic advisor is, check this Academic Advisor list or contact the Director of Academic Advising in the Enrollment Center.
- Graduate Students: Your courses are pre-selected by your academic department and will appear on your registration forms.
Dropping/Changing Courses
In a block system, even on the first day of the course a great deal of material is covered. For this reason, students are advised to plan ahead; if you want to change your course, it is recommended to meet with your advisor before the block starts.
To change from one course to another, students must contact and get approval from their academic advisor. The Director of Academic Advising or Graduation Director in the Enrollment Center need to be notified by your academic advisor that it is okay for you to take the course you want. They will then give you an “Admit to Class” slip to allow entry into the new class. No changes are allowed after the first day of a two-week block (Forest) or after 1:00 p.m. of the second day of a four-week block.
Note that certain classes may require attendance from the very first day.