Registration

Registration Guidelines

  • Meet with your advisor to choose courses – make sure your advisor signs and dates your Registration Worksheet that lists your course schedule. Add course call numbers and any access codes that are required to complete your registration. (Your advisor will tell you where to obtain access codes.)
  • Ask your advisor to make sure you are active in the registration system and to clear you to register.
  • Ask your advisor to notify you if there are any registration holds on your record. (You may check for any holds on Albert prior to your advisement meeting and discuss them at that time.)
  • Speak to your advisor about any financial aid or visa restrictions that apply to you and the minimum number of points for which you must be registered. Graduate students should speak to advisors regarding equivalency points.
  • Register on Albert through NYUHome. Verify your schedule, match course numbers and course titles and review the number of points for each course within the first week of classes.
  • Waitlisted courses must be checked daily because you will not be notified by the University when registered into a waitlisted course. Automatic waitlist registration will end the first day of the second week of classes. Make sure you adjust your schedule by dropping or adding courses, if necessary, once you are registered into a waitlisted course.
  • Check for classroom locations at NYUHome at the start of each day during the first week of classes.
  • Refer to the University Bursar website for payment deadlines.

Registration Procedures After On-Line Registration (Albert) Ends

Albert, the on-line registration system, closes for registration at the end of the second week of a Fall or Spring semester (for Summer registration see the deadlines the Academic Calendar). When Albert is no longer available for registration, the procedures are:

  • Obtain and completely fill out a Registration Worksheet for an initial registration or a Change of Program form to add or drop courses to your schedule. The Program Change forms are available in your department or from Registration Services at 82 Washington Square East, Pless Hall, 2nd floor.
  • Take the completed worksheet or form to your advisor for signature. If you are adding courses outside your department or outside NYU Steinhardt, have the instructor sign the worksheet or form as well.
  • After obtaining your advisor’s and instructor’s signature, bring the form for final approval/signature to Registration Services, 82 Washington Square East, Pless Hall, 2nd floor.
  • Once you have obtained all required signatures, take the form to the Student Services Center at 25 West 4th Street, 1st floor, where the University Registrar will process the form.
  • The University Registrar will direct you to the Bursar to make payment arrangements; otherwise, you may be dropped automatically from the course within 24 hours for nonpayment.
  • Once you complete this process, we recommend that you log onto Albert to verify the transaction and to check your schedule to locate room assignments.