University enrollment is the process by which students enroll in classes. There are two periods for enrollment at Cornell Tech: Pre-Enrollment and Regular Enrollment.
Please follow your program’s academic requirements on your program curriculum sheet. If you are having difficulty enrolling in a required class for your program requirement, please email Student Services!
The Cornell Tech Academic Calendar is here for your reference. Please note for Spring 2021 we will adhere to the Ithaca Academic Calendar!
Spring 2021 Regular Enrollment Begins on February 2nd at 8:00am (ET) through February 22nd at 11:59pm (ET). Please be mindful of your time zone as you plan for enrollment!
Following the add/drop deadline dates, if you need to add or dropping a class, with instructor permission, the Add/Drop Electronic form is available here!
Add Deadline: February 22nd at 11:59pm
Adding a class after February 22nd will only be considered in extreme circumstances and requires permission of the faculty.
Drop Deadline: April 5th at 11:59pm.
Dropping a semester-long class after April 5th results in a W on your transcript and requires permission of the faculty.
Last Day to Change Grading Basis: April 5th at 11:59pm
LAW Course Add/Drop Deadline:
Law Limited Courses: February 17th by 12pm ET
All other LAW courses: February 18th by 3pm ET
Module courses are courses that meet only for 4-5 weeks during the semester. They have different add/drop dates according to when they meet.
Johnson (NBAY) Courses: Most NBAY courses have varied start/end dates, the last date to add and drop will be explicitly indicated in the notes field on the Class Roster closer to Regular Enrollment.
7 Week 1 Add Deadline: February 15th at 11:59pm
7 Week 1 Drop Deadline: March 8th at 11:59pm
7 Week 2 Add Deadline: April 5th at 11:59pm
7 Week 2 Drop Deadline: April 26th at 11:59pm
After the deadline date, students can drop the course only with Faculty Permission and will be issued a “W” on their transcript. To drop without a W, please do so before the drop deadline date.
TECH Elective Module Courses: (i.e. all TECH Studio Electives) the last date to add/drop will be indicated in the notes field on the Class Roster closer to Regular Enrollment. After this date, students can drop the course only with Faculty Permission and will be issued a “W” on their transcript. To drop without a W, please do so before the drop deadline date.
For any arranged courses, students can drop the course after the first class session but BEFORE the start of its second class meeting. After the course meets for the 2nd time, only extreme circumstances will only be considered with faculty permission to drop the course.
Please follow your program’s academic requirements on your program curriculum sheet. If you are having difficulty enrolling in a required class for your program requirement, please email Student Services!
Instructions how to add, drop, swap courses are available here!
The Class Roster is where you will be able to see specific class information at that time (you can filter by Location: Cornell Tech).
Please also review the Class Enrollment FAQ’s as this will provide answers how to use the Registration System (Student Center) along with other helpful tidbits!
If you need assistance with add/dropping a class, please submit an add/drop form.
Some classes may be cross-listed across different major disciplines such as the following. If you are trying to enroll in a cross-listed class, please make sure you enroll in the section according to your major (CS students should enroll in the CS section, ORIE should enroll in ORIE section).
Students who are a major discipline different that the cross-listing, you will be able to enroll in the Parent Section of the class. See below for information this semester:
CS 5854/ORIE 5138 Networks & Markets
CS 5436/INFO 5303 Privacy in the Digital Age
INFO 5345/CS 5424/ECE 5413 Interactive Device Design
INFO 7060/LAW 7179 Digital Life Research Seminar
If you would like to enroll in MBA or LAW classes, you may notice that you may not be able to enroll (or drop) yourself in the course. Please be mindful that these courses are first prioritized for MBA & LAW students to enroll in, however you can waitlist yourself for the course to be considered to be enrolled. At a later time closer to the start of classes, the MBA or LAW Registrar will notify you if/when you are moved off the wait list. If you have any issues please email Student Services to request being put on the wait list. Please make sure to visit our Spring 2021 Class Listings Page to confirm via the notes if you are eligible to enroll in the course as well!
Please be mindful some classes are arranged so that there is a equitable distribution of seats for enrollment across majors. This is to ensure there a diverse enrollment of students in that particular course. Once all the seats have been filled for one major, a wait list automatically opens for the entire class even though the course may say “Open” for enrollment and there are seats open. The error message you may see looks like below:
Error: You are unable to enroll in this class at this time. Available seats are reserved. You do not meet the enrollment group criteria to enroll in this class at this time.
In this situation, add yourself to the waitlist for the course. Student Services will review waitlists on an ongoing basis during the Regular Enrollment period. More information about waitlists are below!
Once a class has reached maximum enrollment for either the course itself or for a reserve major groups’ seating limit, a waitlist opens. Although it may look as though seats are open if you see the course listed with a green circle as “open”, the class is indeed locked from auto-enrolling any more students (and you will not be able to self-enroll). Often times there is already a list of students on the existing waitlist. We understand this may be a tedious process, but you must place yourself on the waitlist so that we know how best to manage the system.
If and when seating becomes available, we will manually enroll you into the class. You will be emailed if and when you are enrolled. Please be mindful this is a manual process and may take us a bit of time to process on a daily basis. We greatly appreciate your patience during this time!
Please be mindful you are not guaranteed to be enrolled in a class if you are on a wait list. Additionally, wait lists can become FULL! In this case, we still CANNOT enroll you in the class or add you onto the full waitlist because the capacity is reached. You will need to try again at later time to see if a spot becomes available.
Student Services will review wait lists on an ongoing basis during the entire Regular Enrollment period.
To enroll in the class:
4. Proceed to Step 2-3 to process enrollment!
TECH 5910 Big Co, TECH 5920 Startup Studio, and TECH 5930 PiTech will not be open for pre-enrollment. We will auto-enroll students in these classes.
1st year Jacobs Students are required to self-enroll in INFO 7900 for their Specialization Project. When enrolling, you must enter the credit load as 3 units (credits). You need to update to this credit load manually during the enrollment process– please check to make sure you are enrolled in 3 credits if you already enrolled in this class!
If you are planning to attend remotely only – you will sign up for 601T
If you are planning to attend hybrid due to immigration requirements, you will sign up for 602T
Business Fundamentals is a prerequisite to taking any business (courses with NBAY prefix) electives in Fall or Spring. As a reminder, we are not having an application review period for Spring consideration.
If you are an MBA student interested in taking more credits beyond your program’s 20 credits, you can apply for approval to take additional credits by emailing the additional courses you are interested in to Mukti Khaire at mvk34@cornell.edu.
To check your registration status, log in to Student Essentials and view your “Registration Status” at the top of the page.
Please also review the Class Enrollment FAQ’s as this will provide answers how to use the Registration System (Student Center) along with other helpful tidbits!
There are several different types of holds – some are informational and must be completed for graduation, and some are immediate and prevent current semester registration. Your Holds are listed at the top right of the page when logged in to Student Essentials. Click on “more information” for complete details including steps to resolve a hold.
To view both current and archived historical course offerings/descriptions, you may review the course catalog on courses.cornell.edu
To download your semester’s class schedule to your personal calendar, please log in to the Scheduler page of the Class Roster to import your schedule! Instructions on how to use this feature are provided on the “Using Scheduler” tool.
Please be mindful once you download the calendar, it will not update automatically if any changes are made thereafter (you will need to re-download the calendar after updates are implemented).