Cross-School Course Registration Processes

Students are manually registered by the Drama registrar.

Obtain instructor permission; notify Drama registrar to complete enrollment

Approximately 28 courses are open to non-Drama students. They are visible in Yale Course Search (YCS).

YC students submit a Request to Enroll in a Professional School Course form, after obtaining instructor permission.

Graduate and professional school students obtain instructor permission; ask home school registrar to complete enrollment

Yale Hub

Obtain instructor permission if applicable; finalize enrollment (when possible) in the Hub,  or submit a form for the Law School or SOM and notify home school registrar to complete enrollment.

Yale College: Obtain instructor permission (if applicable); submit form and a description of extra, graduate level work; submission of dynamic form found on Divinity website.

Grad/Prof students obtain instructor permission; finalize enrollment (when possible) in the Hub, or ask home school registrar to complete enrollment

YC students submit a Request to Enroll in a Professional School Course form

Yale Hub

Graduate students enroll (when possible) in the Hub, or submit a form for the School of Architecture, Law School or SOM and notify home school registrar to complete enrollment.

Professional school students that register in the Hub, may enroll in Graduate School courses directly in Yale Hub.

Professional school students who don’t register for classes in the Hub should request instructor permission via email, and if approved ask their home school registrar to enroll them in the class. 

Yale College students register directly in Yale Course Search.

Yale Hub

Jackson students obtain instructor permission (when required); finalize enrollment (when possible) in the Hub, or submit a form for the School of Architecture, Law School or SOM and notify home school registrar to complete enrollment.

Graduate school and professional school students that register in Yale Hub for their home school may register directly in the Hub for Jackson School courses. 

For those professional schools that do not register in Yale Hub, students complete the Jackson School Registration form for non-Jackson students available at Registrar - Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs.

Yale College students submit the Request to Register in a Yale Professional School Course form.

• Incoming first-term J.D. students are assigned courses and may not elect other classes or change class assignments.   
• All other law students have two opportunities to select courses and finalize schedules each term:  
• During the law school course bidding period prior to each term (generally October for the spring term and June for the fall term), students bid via YLS:Courses for limited enrollment and experiential courses and put in their preferences for open enrollment and permission of instructor courses.  
• During the open add/drop period the first week of the term, students may adjust courses in Yale Hub, and add Supervised Research, reading groups, and non-law courses.  

During the open add/drop period, law students may request to take one course outside the Law School by completing a Course Outside the Law School Form, including a copy of the syllabus for the course, the course description, permission from the instructor and approval from a sponsoring Law School professor. Final approval and credits are determined by the Law School registrar.  See the website for additional information. 

During the open add/drop period, students outside the Law School may register for one law course with the permission of the instructor and the Law School registrar. Students obtain instructor permission by completing the applicable form for Graduate/Professional Students or Yale College Students. Students’ ask their home school registrar to complete enrollment. First-term courses are not open to non-law students.  See the website for more information.

Serlio registration system

Use internal add/drop form.

Obtain permission from the instructor and submit the required form for SOM and LAW courses. For other schools, obtain instructor permission via email and ask your home school registrar to complete enrollment.

Students who wish to satisfy an area elective requirement must obtain permission of the study area coordinator(s) by submitting the Request for Substitution dynamic form.

YC students – obtain instructor permission and submit a request to enroll in a professional school course form.

GSAS/Prof students – Submit the dynamic form available on ARCH website.

Yale Hub

Obtain instructor permission; finalize enrollment (when possible) in the Hub, or notify ART registrar to complete enrollment

Grad/Prof students obtain instructor permission; finalize enrollment (when possible) in the Hub, or notify home school registrar to complete enrollment

YC students submit a Request to Enroll in a Professional School Course form

Yale Hub

School of Management, Law School, and School of Architecture students require permission of home school registrar, ENV registrar manually registers approved students 

For other professional schools and Yale College: Obtain instructor permission and add the course during online registration

Students opting to take a 100-level course require permission of ENV Academic Dean

Grad/Prof students obtain instructor permission; finalize enrollment (when possible) in the Hub, or notify home school registrar to complete enrollment

YC students submit a Request to Enroll in a Professional School Course form

 If there are capped courses, students must follow procedures such as submission of an application or statement of interest (process will be listed in course description or Canvas site)

SOM students initially bid for courses. During add/drop they use the SOM Open add/drop form in Yale Hub to update their schedules.

During the SOM designated add/drop period, SOM students may register for courses from several other schools in Yale Hub. If instructor permission is required, SOM students can submit a dynamic form to request enrollment permission.

Jackson, Law, and Architecture have their own permission forms.

Yale College courses require submission of a Petition for graduate credit form approved by the Dean of Students. SOM students are expected to complete extra work.

GSAS/Prof students submit the SOM request form and bring proof of approvals to their home school registrar to complete enrollment.

Yale College students submit the SOM request form and add the course to their registration worksheet for zero credit. Once approved by SOM, the appropriate credit value (either .5 or 1 credit) is added.

Students complete an internal add/drop workflow form for electives, which is routed to the student’s head of advisory college for approval. Once approved, a notification is received by the MD program registrar who will enroll the student in the elective course.  

Students from other Yale schools are not allowed to register for MD program courses, clinical clerkships, clinical electives or subinternships.

Yale Hub

Students register directly for outside courses in Yale Hub (if outside school is active in Yale Hub). Otherwise, students complete an internal Outside Course request form, and receive permission of the instructor and/or registrar if required by that unit; the YSM registrar adds the course to the student’s schedule.

For YSM Applied Studies courses (music history, etc), outside students need permission from the YSM faculty and YSM registrar. Enrollment is limited and priority is given to YSM students. 

YSM Performance courses are restricted to YSM students, except Secondary Lessons (music.yale.edu/music-lessons-program), and a few other performance courses.

If approved to enroll in a YSM course, register in Yale Hub, or ask home registrar to complete enrollment.

Yale Hub

YSN students may only audit courses outside of YSN, and they need approval from the instructor and from both the outside school registrar and the Nursing Registrar. The Nursing Registrar will manually add students to the course if they are not able to register in Yale Hub.

Outside students need permission from the instructor and the Nursing Registrar. With permission, the home school registrar will complete enrollment.

Yale Hub

Students are permitted to take courses outside of YSPH to fulfill elective requirements as long as they are 300-level or above and they have rationale as to how it fits into their degree goals. 

If an outside school doesn’t have a special form or procedure, students should obtain instructor permission and follow any directions in the course description.

For registration purposes, students are asked to follow the policies and procedures of the other school (e.g., SOM’s non-SOM enrollment form; Law School form; Jackson instruction permission; etc.) See website for more information. 

For cross-listed courses, students follow the procedures for the primary school, unless the course has a YSPH number, in which case they register under the YSPH number.

No special permission or process is required by the YSPH Registrar; students should finalize enrollment (when possible) in the Hub,  or notify their home school registrar to complete enrollment.

If a course is in high demand, YSPH student enrollment takes priority in YSPH primary courses.

Yale Course Search Registration system

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences classes: students may enroll directly in Yale Course Search for an unlimited number of graduate school courses. If they can’t enroll in YCS, it means that YC students are not allowed in the course.

For professional school courses, excluding SOM: students submit a Request to Enroll in a Professional School Course form. SOM requires its own unique form (see link above).  A limit of 4 professional school courses is allowed. Students must add the professional school course to their registration worksheets before the end of add/drop period.  

Students seek permission from the instructor and then ask their home school registrar to complete enrollment.