Registration

Registration Tips

Spring 26 registration period will start on November 3, 2025 – Mathematics, Physics, & Astronomy majors may have an advising hold. Students should plan to meet with their Academic Advisor or complete the on-line Advising Worksheet. (Make an appointment via Bookings.) Astronomy majors must meet with an Astronomy Faculty Advisor before their hold is cleared. Physics majors can meet with a Physics Faculty Advisor on the days and times found here. Math majors can make an appointment to see a Math Faculty Advisor by sending an email to mpaadv@austin.utexas.edu.  Please see the Math Major Newsletter for registration tips, highlighted spring 26 courses, IBL/Flag information, and more!

These tips may help ease your registration concerns.  You are encouraged to meet with your Academic Advisor as often as you need or want to, and as early as possible in the semester before you intend to graduate. Schedule an appointment on-line via Bookings.  The MPA Advising Center is open year-round.

• The on-line course schedules come out in October for Spring registration, and in March for Fall and Summer registration. However, you do not have to wait until these are available in order to be advised. Your advisor will have a tentative list of the MPA courses that will be offered.
• If you are unable to get an advising appointment prior to your registration time, register as best as you can by following the progression plan on the back of your degree checklist and based on your degree audit. You can verify your course selection during your next advising appointment.  Remember that you can make any necessary schedule changes during adds and drops.
• If you have an advising hold, seek academic advising as soon as possible. Your advisor will not lift your advising hold until you have been advised.  If you submit an advising worksheet, be sure to let your advisor know!
• The closer it is to registration, the fewer advising appointments are available. You can email your advisor with a "quick" question, but during busy times, you may not get a "quick" response!  Your advisor will respond to your email as soon as possible, but will give priority to students with advising appointments.
• If you have completed all your entry level courses, and intend to declare Mathematics, Physics or Astronomy as your major, set up an appointment with an MPA advisor prior to October in the fall and March in the spring.  Students seeking to Internally Transfer to MPA will not be be seen by MPA advisors.
• Advisors can not add you to closed courses, but you can add yourself to the electronic waitlist.   Although being on a waitlist is not a guarantee that you'll be added to a class, it is the only way to be added to full courses.  You can be added from the waitlist up through the 6th class day.  From the 7th - 12th class days, there will be no late adds allowed.  Let your MPA advisor know if you "have to have" a particular course, especially if you are a graduating senior!
• Your registration is complete once payment has been received. In order to avoid being "zapped" (losing your schedule and having to register all over again), be sure your bill is paid by the deadline.  Even if your tuition bill is Zero, you have to confirm your schedule.  Please contact the CNS Student Services Desk if you need assistance with late registration.

Online Processes
 

• Q-Drop, Pass/Fail, Withdraw, and OTE:
  • The deadline for a Q-drop for Fall 25 is November 19, 2025 11:59pm.
  • The deadline for a standard pass/fail for Fall 25 is November 19, 2025 11:59pm.
  • The deadline to withdraw for Fall 25 is November 19, 2025 11:59pm.
  • The deadline to request an OTE for Fall 25 is December 8, 2025 at 11:59pm. 
     
• Graduation
  • The deadline to apply for graduation for Fall 25 is December 8, 2025.
     
• Taking over maximum hours:
  • For requests to take over hours in the summer or fall, please fill out this form.
     
• Mathematics Conference Course and Honors Tutorial Course enrollment requests:
  • Spring
    • Conference Course requests for Spring 26.
    • Honors Tutorial Course requests for Spring 26.
       
• Spring 2026 UT Mathematics Honors Class Application Form:
  • M 325-H #56590, M 427J-H #56595 or M 341-H #56805
    Dean's Scholars or Polymathic Scholars students are to make their requests through their academic advisor.
     
• M 371E enrollment requests:
  • Students who are interested in taking M 371E must send an email request including their UTEID to M 371E Course Registration.
     
• Graduate Courses:
  • The Math Department has an online process to request enrollment in a graduate math course. The online process may be found here.  Please submit only one form per course.
  • If you would like to take a graduate course in a department other than Math, please follow the directions located here.
     
• Undergraduate Independent Study or Research in Physics enrollment requests.
   
• AST 175C, 275C, 375C 379H
  • Email the AST Program Coordinator with your UTEID, course number, and unique number.
  • Copy in your faculty research advisor to confirm they have agreed to supervise you, then the department will register you for the course.
     
     

Late Add Procedures for Math Classes
 

• Students who want to get into a math course should get on one or two waitlists. Waitlists are active through the 6th class day.

  Starting this fall, undergraduate students will have until the 6th class day, Sept. 2 at 5 PM to add classes or be added via the wait list through the online registration system—an extension from the previous 4th class day deadline. This change applies to all students, including non-degree seekers, and is designed to give students a bit more flexibility while still encouraging timely enrollment decisions.  

    From the 7th - 12th class days, there will be no late adds allowed.


Late Add Procedures for Physics and Physical Science Classes

[PLEASE NOTE: All PHY 102M/N, 103M/N, and 117M/N Labs have been replaced by a single series: PHY 105M/N. To streamline course availability, students will be able to take PHY 105M/N to pair with one of the following lower-division physics sequences - PHY 302K/L, PHY 317K/L, or PHY 303K/L - in order to fulfill degree or pre-health requirements.]

• No late adds during the 7th - 12th class days will be allowed for Physics lectures or Physical Science courses (P S 303, P S 304)
• Late adds are permitted through the 9th class day for lower-division physics labs (PHY 105M, PHY 105N, PHY 101L, PHY 116L, PHY 115L).
  • From the 7th - 9th class day, if a lab says “open” on the course schedule, send the unique number with your UTEID to UGaffairs@physics.utexas.edu and ask to be placed in it.  Do not contact the instructor directly.
     

Late Add Procedures for Astronomy Classes
 

• Late Add procedures for Astronomy classes during the 7th -12th class days are as follows:

  • Please contact the instructor for permission via e-mail and then forward that permission to:

    • AST program coordinator (studentinfo@astro.as.utexas.edu) 

    • Students can be added if there is room in the course. 

Please note:  Late adds will not be allowed for AST 376R.