A registered student's Study List of enrolled courses becomes official at midnight on Friday of the second week of each quarter. Students are responsible for all courses and grading basis, as listed on MyUCLA, and cannot receive credit for courses not listed. Errors or omissions should be corrected before instruction ends (end of Week 10). Study Lists should be checked after all enrollment transactions.
When planning courses for a term, students are responsible for avoiding class conflicts and avoiding conflicting or multiple same-day final examinations. See "Final Examination Policies on UCLA's Registrar's website.
Each student is given their own enrollment appointment time determined by the Registrar's Office. This can be found on MyUCLA. You may only enroll for classes during your appointed time. A tutorial on how to view enrollment appointments is available on MyUCLA.
Tutorial videos are available on MyUCLA, such as:
A student’s "Study List" refers to the list of courses enrolled in each quarter. Students have until Friday of the second week of each quarter to make any changes to their Study List without financial penalty. For example, the Friday of the second week of Fall 2024 is October 11. These changes include adding/dropping courses, and changing grading basis (letter grade, satisfactory/unsatisfactory, and changing variable units). During Weeks 3 to 10 any changes may result in a late fee posted to the BruinBill. Changes made after Week 10 require an enrollment petition and Department memo, which are subject to approval by the Division of Graduate Education's Dean.
The Department requires all students to enroll in a minimum of 12 units every quarter.
Some courses may allow students to choose their grading basis - letter grade or Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory (S/U). All required courses for the MA and PhD must be taken for a letter grade, unless the required course only allows for S/U. It is each student's responsibility to check their Study List after they enroll to ensure that their courses taken for the intended grading basis. Changes to grading basis can be made on MyUCLA until the end of Week 10 each quarter. If after Week 10, a special petition, instructor letter, and Department memo is required to request a grading basis change. This petition is reviewed by the Division of Graduate Education and is not guaranteed to be approved.
If you cannot enroll in a class, it could be for one or more of the following reasons:
The class is full (also see section below): You may choose to go on the waitlist if available. If this is a required course, contact the Grad SAO.
Enrollment is Restricted or Instructor Consent is required: In either of these situations, you need to obtain a Permission To Enroll (PTE) number from the instructor. Once you have the number, go back to MyUCLA to enroll and enter the PTE number when prompted.
Enforced Prerequisite: If you see this at all it will most likely be associated with an upper division undergraduate course or prior course in sequence. A PTE would be required to enroll.
Hold on your student account: You may view any holds on your student account through MyUCLA. Most common reasons for new students are not completing Title IX training or not arranging delivery of final official transcripts.
If you find that a course you wanted to take is full and are worried that you will not be able to enroll, please check up on that particular course periodically, even up until the second week of the respective quarter, as space will highly likely open up. Some students enroll in more courses than they actually need in an attempt to "save a seat" or are "shopping for classes". As a result, they end up dropping the excess courses during the first and second week of class thus freeing up space. Please note there is nothing we can do to prevent this from happening as graduate students have a unit limit of 22 units.
If you are on the waitlist, your waitlist number indicates your position. If an enrolled student drops the course, you’ll be moved up. If you were #1 on the waitlist, you will be automatically enrolled.
If the course is required, please contact the Grad SAO.