Information about Registering for Classes

Newly admitted students are required to receive academic advising before registering for classes. Academic advisors from the college or school that your major is in will be available during orientation to help you make good decisions about which courses to take. Because of this—and many other reasons—orientation is highly recommended for incoming students.

Students who do not attend summer orientation are not able to register for classes for their first semester until very near the beginning of the semester.

When registering for subsequent semesters, you’ll be assigned a registration access period. You’ll be able to find out when your access period is and other details about registering by logging in using your UT EID and password. For details about how the registration process works in subsequent semesters, visit the Registrar’s web site.

Viewing Course Schedules

A couple of weeks before registration begins for each semester, the course schedule is posted in the Course Schedule section of the Registrar’s web site. (If the schedule you’d like to view isn’t available, check back periodically.) A printable version of the course schedule is available online along with printable sections for courses in certain academic areas.

Buying Books

Each semester professors for individual classes select textbooks for the courses they are teaching and then have the bookstore order those books for the expected number of students in the class. When you visit the bookstore to buy your books, it should have the books you need for each class in stock. Bring information about your courses to the book store and you’ll be able to easily locate the textbooks you need.

The most popular place to buy textbooks for UT Austin classes is the University Co-op located across from campus on Guadalupe (also called “The Drag”).