Catalog Navigator : Registration and Course Information

Official admission to one of the colleges or schools precedes registration for courses. The registration process consists of three steps:

Selection of courses with the assistance of an adviser
Submission of registration materials
Payment of tuition and fees for the approved program

The registration process is completed only after full tuition and fees are paid in accordance with billing instructions. Registration dates for each semester are announced in advance by the Office of the Registrar in the Schedule of Classes. New students will receive instructions for registration via Enrollment Pathways https://www.ugadmissions.rutgers.edu/pathway/ from the director of admissions or the appropriate Office of the Dean before they enter college. Continuing students receive instructions via email from the registrar. Information is also sent to students from the School of Criminal Justice. Students seeking reentry must re-apply by submitting a reenrollment application online at http://admissions.rutgers.edu/reenrollment at least 45 days prior to the beginning of the semester.

Registration and course information, including registration instructions, grades, and transcripts, are now available at http://registrar.newark.rutgers.edu, the Newark registrar's website. Current students wishing to access grades or transcripts must have an active Pegasus account. Contact Rutgers Newark Computing Services, Hill Hall, to establish a computing account. Late registration students who do not complete registration during the period specified in the registration instructions may do so during the late registration period. Students registering late may be subject to a late payment fee. The university reserves the right to refuse registration to a student who does not adhere to published registration schedules.

Registration at Other Units of Rutgers
A student may register for a course at other divisions of Rutgers University. Written permission must be obtained from the appropriate dean at the school of matriculation. If the course is in the student's major, written permission must be obtained from the chair of the major department as well as the dean. Students must complete a host enrollment form at least 30 days prior to the semester.

Registration at Colleges outside Rutgers
A student who wishes to enroll in courses at another institution and enroll simultaneously at Rutgers University must obtain permission from the appropriate dean. If a course is required for the student's major, permission must be obtained from the student's department chair also. All such requests must be made in writing well in advance of the deadline for registration at the other institution. Credit is not granted for work carried concurrently without prior permission.

Students who wish to enroll in a course offered at Essex County College must follow these procedures:

Obtain signatures on the exchange registration form, indicating approval by the appropriate dean and/or the student's department chair
Register at Rutgers and include the Essex County College course on the course registration card--the "exchange registration" numbers are listed in the Schedule of Classes under "Exchange (376)"
Submit the signed exchange registration form to the registrar of the school offering the course

Students who wish to enroll in a course offered at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) must follow these procedures:

Consult procedures posted on the Newark registrar's website
Include each New Jersey Institute of Technology course on the Rutgers Exchange Form (NJIT courses are listed as School 28); courses required for joint NJIT and Rutgers-Newark programs are listed in the Schedule of Classes, after the Rutgers courses
Register for NJIT courses in person at the Newark registrar's office

Grades received from NJIT for exchange registration courses appear on the Rutgers transcript and are calculated in both the semester and cumulative grade-point averages. Satisfactory completion of exchange registration courses at Essex County College appears as an exchange course with only credit applied toward the degree.

Summer and Winter Sessions
The Office of Summer and Winter Sessions offers several additional semesters of study during the summer and winter. For information detailing course offerings, registration procedures, and policies, please visit http://summer.newark.rutgers.edu or http://winter.newark.rutgers.edu. The Office of Summer and Winter Sessions is located in Blumenthal Hall, Room 208, 973-353-5112.

Change of Courses
School of Criminal Justice students may add courses through the eighth calendar day of the semester on the Rutgers website https://sims.rutgers.edu/webreg. Dates for add/drop are listed on the Newark registrar's website. Students may drop courses (without penalty) through the seventh calendar day of the semester. From the eighth calendar day until the end of the ninth week of instruction of the semester, a student may drop a course on the Rutgers website or in person at the registrar's office and receive a W (withdrawal) grade. For each course dropped after the seventh calendar day of the semester, the university charges tuition for the course, and the course appears on the record. Individual courses can not be dropped after the ninth week of the semester. A student who stops attending a course and fails to give written notice to the registrar receives a failing grade in that course. No refund is granted for a course dropped after the seventh calendar day of the semester.

Withdrawal
A student who wishes to withdraw from all courses before the end of the12th week of instruction must obtain a Notification of Withdrawal form from the Office of the Registrar. The form must be signed by staff in the dean's office, business office, financial aid office (if the student receives financial aid), and housing office (if the student lives in university housing). The completed form then must be submitted to the Office of the Registrar. A withdrawal form may be submitted by mail if illness prevents a student from presenting it in person. The date on which the registrar signs the withdrawal form is considered the official withdrawal date. A student who leaves the university without officially withdrawing in this manner receives a failing grade in each course. A student is not eligible for any refund of tuition unless the withdrawal is formally reported to the registrar according to the proper procedure. A student who officially withdraws from college prior to the end of the 12th week of instruction receives grades of W for all courses. A student who leaves college during the final four weeks of instruction receives grades of F in all courses.

Readmission
A student who withdraws during a semester or who fails to register for the next regularly scheduled semester (not including Summer Session) may not register again without receiving permission to reenter the college from the appropriate dean or the Scholastic Standing Committee. Students seeking reentry to the college must initiate the process at least 45 days prior to the beginning of the semester for which registration is sought by submitting an online application. A student who has been dismissed for academic reasons must, in addition, submit a written appeal to the Scholastic Standing Committee by October 15 for spring or June 15 for the fall semester.

Transfers from One School to Another (School-to-School Transfer)
Currently enrolled undergraduate students, working toward a degree, who wish to apply for admission to another school within the university may do so by submitting the online school-to-school transfer application at http://admissions.rutgers.edu/SchoolToSchool/default.aspx. This single online application and common set of procedures will be applied by the schools in reviewing applications for transfer admission. Students can submit only one school-to-school transfer application each semester.