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.
Fall 2022 Pre-Enrollment Begins on April 20th at 7:30am (ET) through April 22nd at 11:59pm (ET). The 2nd Enrollment Period, Fall 2022 Regular Enrollment, will occur sometime in August (TBD) before the start of the term.
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 Cornell Tech adheres to the Ithaca Academic Calendar for start/end dates of classes, holidays, etc. We will have an adjusted Reading Day/Finals Week indicated on that calendar link!
Add Deadline: TBD
Adding a class after TBD will only be considered in extreme circumstances and requires permission of the faculty via an add/drop form.
Drop Deadline: TBD
Dropping a semester-long class after TBD results in a W on your transcript and requires permission of the faculty via an add/drop form.
Last Day to Change Grading Basis: TBD
Add/Drop Deadline: TBD
Module courses are courses that meet only for a few weeks during the semester. They have different add/drop dates compared to full term courses and according to when they meet.
Johnson (NBAY) Courses: NBAY courses have varied start/end dates, the last date to add and drop will be according to when classes meet either in the first half or the second half of the term.
7 Week 1/First Half Term Courses:
Add/Change Credits Deadline: TBD
Drop/Change Grading Basis Deadline: TBD
7 Week 2/First Half Term Courses:
Add/Change Credits Deadline: TBD
Drop/Change Grading Basis Deadline: TBD
After the deadline date, students can drop the course only with Faculty permission and will be issued a “W” on their transcript via an add/drop form. 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!
An add/drop form will be available after Fall regular enrollment (the webpage form link will be shared at that time) if you require assistance or permission with adjustments to your schedule.
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!
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 5785/ORIE 5750/ECE 5414 Applied Machine Learning
INFO 5340/CS 5650 Virtual & Augmented Reality
INFO 6410/CS 5682 HCI & Design
INFO 5345/CS 5424/ECE 5413 Interactive Device Design
ORIE 5355/INFO 5370 Data, People, & Systems
ORIE 5380/CS 5727 Optimization Methods
MBA and LAW classes will not be available during Pre-Enrollment. If you see any Law/MBA classes on the roster -these are still in the works of being updated. You will be able to sign up during Regular Enrollment.
Please be mindful 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 a groups’ available seats become full, a wait list will open. Often times you may see a course say “Open” for enrollment and there are seats open – however these seats are for a the other major group within the course. You may also see these error messages as well:
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 a waitlist. We understand this may be a tedious process, but you must place yourself on the waitlist as this is how we manage enrolllments.
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 Regular Enrollment period.
To enroll in the class:
4. Proceed to Step 2-3 to process enrollment!
Studio courses will be available for Pre-Enrollment. Students will be sent permission codes. More information and course offerings are posted on the Master’s Course Info Page.
2nd year Jacobs Students are required to self-enroll in INFO 5920 for their Specialization Project this term. When enrolling, please make sure that you have the credit load as the correct amount to fulfill your requirement. If you need clarifiation, please consult with Deborah Estrin before enrollment.
The waiver period will occur over the summer- details will follow in the coming weeks if you would like to apply for a waiver!
TBA for MBA incoming students only.
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).