Registration and Enrollment

A student must be officially admitted as either degree or non-degree seeking and registered prior to attending any class session of any course. Courses and schedules of classes are announced well in advance of the beginning of each term. Dates and hours when students may register and instructions for registering are available online at www.hood.edu/gradregister. Students are encouraged to register online using Self-Service after their initial term of enrollment. Note: Students in the doctoral program in organizational leadership are registered every term by the registrar's office.

Students are responsible for seeing that they have met all appropriate prerequisites before registering for courses. Failure to meet course prerequisites places the student at risk and will not be considered as cause for a refund of tuition. Students who have not met prerequisites will require written approval by the instructor. Non-degree seeking students may be required to seek permission from the appropriate instructor or program director in order to enroll. Because some courses may be closed due to heavy student enrollment, students are encouraged to register early. Students nearing the completion of their programs should register as early as possible to avoid facing closed classes. The regular registration period continues through the drop/add period of the semester as defined on the Academic Calendar.

Full course sections with waitlisted students are reviewed regularly by the registrar’s office and instructors.  Before a term begins, if seats become available and students are added to rosters from waitlists, the students will receive an email message to their Hood email account notifying them of the schedule change.  Once the term begins, waitlisted students should attend the first class meeting to ensure they do not miss content. At the end of the class session, the waitlisted students can ask the instructor if they can be added to the roster.  If so, the approval must be provided in writing to the registrar’s office either by email (registrar@hood.edu) or via signature on the registration drop/add form. Attendance as a waitlisted student does not guarantee admission to the course roster. Students who are waitlisted for online coursework may contact the instructor for the virtual class meeting link to attend the session.