Registration & Enrolment

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What is the difference betwixt enrolment and registration? To enrol, you add together courses. To register, you pay your tuition and incidental fees, or register without payment (defer fees).

The deadlines to enrol in graduate-level courses may vary depending on your graduate unit. See SGS sessional dates for full details.

Registration

ACORN

ACORN stands for Attainable Campus Online Resources Network and is the educatee web inter​face up to the University's student information system. Sign into ACORN to enrol in courses, cheque fees and finances, update your address and emergency contact information, and more.

Registration Eligibility

We make every effort to ensure that registration material is just sent to students who are eligible to annals. However, receiving it does not override any other notification you received about your academic status and eligibility.

Y'all can register if you are a:

  • New pupil who has received an Offering of Admission letter from your home graduate unit. If you accept weather condition placed on your offer letter, you may annals only your atmospheric condition must exist cleared by August 31st, otherwise your registration volition be cancelled. Please refer to your Offer of Admission letter or contact your dwelling graduate unit of measurement.
  • Continuing student who is inside the time limit for your degree program
  • Student with no outstanding U of T tuition fees

Y'all are considered registered equally soon as you have paid tuition and incidental fees or accept requested to annals without payment (i.e., fee deferral). For data on registering without payment (i.e. fee deferral), visit the Graduate Fees section of the SGS website.

Graduate students who demonstrate that their academic progress was significantly impeded due to COVID-nineteen related disruptions will be exempt from tuition for up to one bookish session. For information on requesting registration with a tuition fee exemption, visit the Graduate Fees section of the SGS website.

Registration Deadlines

The deadlines to register in each session are:

Autumn 2021 starters: September 10, 2021

Winter 2022 starters: January 24, 2022

Summer 2022 starters: May half dozen, 2022

Register by the registration deadline so that you do not lose credit for total-time attendance for income-tax purposes by Revenue Canada (T2202A).

After the final date for registration, enrolment in and access to courses through ACORN volition be cancelled for students who are not registered.

Late Registration

If you register after the concluding date to register without financial penalization, you are required to pay a belatedly registration fee of $44.00. Please consummate the online tardily registration form and online payment here. Once completed, SGS volition change your ACORN status to "INVITed," which will allow you to register.

Simultaneous Registration

With the permission of the graduate unit(s) and SGS, you can be simultaneously registered in one full-time and one part-time program, or ii part-time programs—merely not ii full-fourth dimension programs. Students are responsible for the fees charged for both programs.

Dual Registration

If yous are a master's student at U of T who has a minimal corporeality of work outstanding for your master's caste and has been offered admission to a doctoral program, yous may exist permitted to register dually in both the principal's and doctoral programs for one session (fall session or winter session). Delight consult your graduate unit for further details.

A dual registrant will be engaged in full-time doctoral studies and will be registered full-time in the doctoral and function-time in the master'southward plan. Only fees for the doctoral plan will exist charged.

You must be recommended for the laurels of the main's degree by January 21, 2022 if you are a Autumn 2021 session dual registrant, or April 14, 2022 if y'all are a Wintertime 2022 session dual registrant. Otherwise your doctoral registration will be cancelled and your fee payment volition be applied to your master's registration.

Concurrent Registration

Bachelor at the master's caste level only.

Available just in degree programs with canonical partner degree programs at U of T. If you accept been accustomed into each partner degree plan separately, you may enrol in the concurrent program pick in each caste program, field of study to the blessing of both programs.

Combined Program Registration

There are a number of combined programs involving two existing degree programs in different disciplines. The combination may be made upwards of two graduate programs or a graduate and an undergraduate program. In most cases, the combination involves at least one professionally oriented program. If y'all are interested in a combined programme, yous must apply to and exist admitted separately by ii corresponding units or faculties within the University, meeting all admission requirements for each. Students enrolled in combined programs must consummate the requirements for both programs in club to graduate from either plan.

For information on fees for combined programs, visit the Graduate Fees section of this website.

Non-Degree Special Students

Non-caste special students are individuals who elect to take coursework and are non registered in a program of written report which leads to a degree. Run into too the Graduate Fees section of this website.

Change of Campus Affiliation

You are automatically affiliated with a campus (St. George, UTM, UTSC) based on your program of study and will be charged the appropriate level of campus service fees for Athletics, Hart House, Health Services, and other pupil services. Yous may apply to modify your campus amalgamation if y'all come across specific criteria:

1. You lot are supervised past a member of the graduate faculty who is on the academic staff of the campus to which you wish to transfer affiliation;

2. You spend the majority of your bookish fourth dimension on the campus yous wish to transfer affiliation.

Deadlines for requesting a change of campus affiliation are the same every bit the registration borderline at the start of each term. Retroactive changes are not immune. See the Alter of campus amalgamation form.

Programme Withdrawal

See details and access the withdrawal form.

Termination of Registration Guidelines

Run into details.

Enrolment

Course Enrolment

The deadlines to enrol in graduate courses are:

July 5, 2021 for July to Baronial Summer session courses

September twenty, 2021 for total-year and Fall session courses

January 17, 2022 for Winter session courses

May 9, 2022 for May to June Summer session courses and May to August Summer session courses

July 4, 2022 for July to August Summer session courses

Most graduate units permit students to use ACORN to enrol in courses inside required deadlines. Other graduate units require students to fill out an enrolment form listing their courses. For detailed data and instructions consult your graduate unit of measurement.

Please visit the appropriate graduate unit website for course offerings and details. It is your responsibleness to ensure that class enrolment is accurate on ACORN.

Changes to your program of written report should be fabricated in consultation with your graduate unit. Prior to deadlines, some graduate units allow students make course changes using ACORN. Information technology is your responsibility to adhere to deadlines for dropping and adding courses and to ensure that your plan of study is complete and up-to-date.

Dropping Courses

The deadlines to drop courses are as follows:

June 14, 2021 for May-to-August Y department courses

July 23, 2021 for July-to-August S section courses

October 25, 2021 for Autumn session total or half courses

February 20, 2022 for full-year and Winter session courses

May 27, 2022 for May-to-June F section courses

June 13, 2022 for May-to-August Y department courses

July 22, 2022 for July-to-August Due south section courses.

Courses are dropped past using ACORN or the Add/Driblet Course(south) form. It is your responsibleness to attach to deadlines for dropping courses.

If you miss the borderline to drop a grade:

i. Complete the Add/Drop Class(due south) form and submit information technology to your graduate unit, forth with a letter of the alphabet of rationale with supporting documentation (eastward.g. medical certificate).

two. The graduate unit volition consider the request and, if supported, will forward the request to SGS for review.

3. If approved by SGS, the transcript notation of WDR (Withdrawn without Bookish Punishment) volition be assigned by SGS to the grade. The WDR notation carries no credit for the form and is non considered for averaging purposes.

Some graduate units offering modular courses which have enrolment deadlines that do non arrange to the deadlines above. Modular courses with non-standard start/end dates require the graduate unit to establish suitable drib dates. Delight check with the graduate unit offering modular courses for the drop dates.

Dropping courses may have implications for your progress in the program. For details, bank check with your departmental graduate administrator.

Enrolment Status (Total-Time, Function-Time, Flexible-Fourth dimension)

Full-Time Status

All students

According to government regulations, full-time graduate students must:

  1. exist pursuing their studies equally a full-time occupation and identify themselves as full-fourth dimension graduate students,
  2. exist designated past the Academy every bit total-fourth dimension students,
  3. be geographically available and visit the campus regularly,
  4. be considered to be full-time by their supervisors and,
  5. apply through their graduate unit for permission to exist off campus if an bookish program requires an absence from the University.

For the formal definition of full-time studies, please refer to department six.1.ii of the SGS Agenda.

Doctoral Students

Doctoral students are required to register annually on a total-time basis until all degree requirements have been completed. Students registered in flexible-time doctoral programs are required to annals full-time for the first four years; thereafter, they may register part-time. Delight consult your graduate unit for further details.

Master's Students

Chief'due south students in most research programs are required to register annually on a full-time basis until all degree requirements have been completed.

Total-time master's students in programs with an approved part-time selection may be permitted to switch to part-time status if within the program length. Consult your graduate unit for details.

A switch from total-time to part-fourth dimension status is not permitted once the program length divers for a programme has been completed.

Changes to full-time/part-time status cannot be made retroactively.

Part-Fourth dimension Condition

Part-time students who are studying in an approved office-time principal's programme continue to pay a part-time fee until the degree requirements are satisfied.

Part-time master's students in research programs must maintain continuous registration.

Part-fourth dimension master's students who have paid fees just for 1 bookish session in the previous twelvemonth are required to pay summertime fees.

Changes to full-time/part-time condition cannot be made retroactively.

Flexible-Time Status

Flexible-fourth dimension programs are offered in units where at that place is sufficient demand by practicing professionals for design and commitment of doctoral programs that, except for short specified periods of time, permit continued employment in areas related to the fields of inquiry.

Doctoral students may choose this pick but if the plan offers an canonical flexible-fourth dimension doctoral degree.

Students in flexible-time programs will normally register full-time during the first four years and part-time during subsequent years of the programme. Students are required to exist registered for every successive session, including summers, following their offset session of registration unless granted a go out of absenteeism.

The time limit, between six to 8 years, will be specified by the regulations of the graduate unit of measurement. Extensions are permitted nether the existing policy; students granted an extension may register full-fourth dimension or office-fourth dimension.

Transfers between the full-fourth dimension doctoral program and the flexible-time doctoral program are not permitted.

Collaborative Specializations

Collaborative specializations emerge from cooperation between two or more graduate units, thereby providing students with a broader base from which to explore interdisciplinary areas of study and research.

Students must exist admitted to, and enrol in, i of the collaborating graduate units and must fulfill all the requirements for the degree in the home unit and any additional requirements of the collaborative specialization. Each is designed to allow a focus in the area of specialty. Upon successful completion of the program, the student receives a transcript notation.

For students seeking admission to a collaborative specialization where the home degree plan does non currently participate, please contact the graduate program ambassador to access and complete a Non-Standard Collaborative Specialization Enrolment Grade (PDF).​

Transfer Credit & Exemptions

If you have taken courses at another university, you may asking to receive upwardly to 1.0 full-course equivalent (FCE) or 25% of the course requirements, whichever is greater, provided that the courses accept non been credited towards some other caste, diploma, certificate, or whatever other qualifications. Such credit may be given on the recommendation of your graduate unit and with the approval of SGS. Transfer credits are usually requested upon admission.

Students participating in an approved commutation program may receive transfer credit for up to 50% of the course requirements for their caste. See Visiting & Exchange Opportunities for more information.

Your graduate unit may exempt you lot from a specific course requirement permitting the substitution of another grade to encounter caste requirements; however, overall course credit requirements for your degree may not be reduced.

To request transfer credit(due south) or an exemption, submit the transfer credit and/or exemption form to your graduate unit of measurement along with the final transcript showing the results of the grade(s).

There is no financial credit awarded for transfer credit (only bookish credit). In other words, a student transferring a credit from any other establishment or U of T program is still required to pay the minimum total program fee.

Undergraduate Courses

To take an undergraduate course, y'all must obtain permission from your home graduate unit and the relevant undergraduate department. Graduate students must annals in undergraduate courses through their graduate unit (not every bit an undergraduate not-degree student).

The graduate grading scale applies to undergraduate courses and any other non-graduate courses for graduate students. Whatsoever grade below 70% will exist converted to FZ (failure).

Graduate students taking undergrad courses must follow the undergraduate borderline to drop a form (not the SGS deadline).

Undergraduate courses normally practice not count towards fulfilling graduate degree requirements.

If y'all are unable to write an undergraduate examination on the scheduled date, yous must request to defer your test. The authority to grant a request for an undergraduate deferred exam is with your home graduate unit of measurement, not the instructor of the undergraduate course.

The asking for undergraduate​ deferred examination form must exist submitted to your home unit. In one case canonical by your home unit, yous must pay the undergraduate deferred test fee immediately. The payment is submitted to the Office of the Kinesthesia Registrar, Faculty of Arts and Science, through the methods described on their website. Following payment, the deferred examinations assistant at the Faculty of Arts and Science will provide further details.

Need Help?

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