Registrar’s Office

Prepare Your Schedule

• Use the Fall 2025 Course Schedule Listing and your Program Evaluation to choose your courses
• The section number is the last two digits of the course number, for example, ACCT-238-02
• Courses for the Day student population have a section number from 01-99.
• Sections with the letter “R” are remote only
• Courses for the UGO student population have an alphabetical section ON1 or ON2. (Please see Online courses for criteria to take a UGO course)
• Day students may not register for courses with a section of HS. These courses are only open to students in those private programs.
• Make an appointment with your advisor prior to registration
• Advising will take place from March 17 to March 28.

The College reserves the right to cancel any course due to inadequate enrollment or staff availability, and limit the course enrollment size due to oversubscription. Anytime the College exercises this right, a student’s schedule may be affected, It is important to check your class schedule in Self Service up to the first day of classes in case of any changes.

Registration will take place March 31 – April 2. You will receive an email from the Registrar’s Office with your day and time.

Registration for Online courses will open on March 31 – April 2, alongside your registration for Day classes. (Please see Online courses for criteria to take a UGO course)

You may continue to register after your scheduled time but not before it. Please resolve holds prior to registration.

Staff members from Academic Advising, Student Financial Services, Registrar’s Office, Residence Life, and Student Services will be available to help if you experience problems with registration.

Need help using the online registration mode? Click here for step-by-step procedures to use Student Planning to register.

The normal course load for full-time day students is 14 – 17 credit-hours per semester. Students that register for 12 or more credits per semester are considered full-time. Students that are not full-time may have problems with Student Financial Services, Health Insurance, Residence Life, and Athletics.

You must meet the following criteria to take more than 17 credit hours in a semester:

• Senior 2.4 GPA or above
• Junior 2.7 GPA or above
• Sophomore 3.0 GPA or above
• Freshman 3.3 GPA or above

As of the Fall 2020 semester the day student overload fee of $1000 per credit hour will be charged starting with the 19th credit hour.

• Senior 87+
• Junior 57 – 86
• Sophomore 27 – 56
• Freshman 0 – 26

If you would like to take a course at Nichols College but are not looking to earn a degree, please use the form found here to register.

• SEM 139 First Year PDS must be taken in the Fall of our First year
• SEM 239 Sophomore PDS must be taken in the Fall of your Sophomore year
• SEM 339 Junior PDS must be taken in the Spring of your Junior year

Several courses have new titles but meet the same requirements. Please note that if you have taken a course with the former title, do not register for the course with the new title per the chart below. It will count as a repeated course and you will not receive credit for it. If you have not taken the course under the former number, please register for the course under the new number and it will meet the same requirement. List of courses with new titles can be found here.

You may change your Fall 2025 schedule from your registration start time through August 29, 2025.

Classes and Add/Drop begin on August 25, 2025. Add/Drop ends on August 29, 2025.

If you wish to be removed from a course after add/drop has ended, please file a “Withdrawal from Course” request on the Registrar’s Hub page at this link: Withdrawal from Course Form

You may not withdraw from a Fall 2025 Day division course after October 31, 2025.

Course listed in the Undergraduate Online Program (UGO) schedule are denoted with a section code of ON1 or ON2. You may register for these courses online; you must meet the following criteria:

• Senior 2.4 GPA or above
• Junior 2.7 GPA or above
• Sophomore 3.0 GPA or above
• Freshman 3.3 GPA or above

Important Notes:

1. Only one UGO program course is permitted per semester.
2. Session I & Session II courses must be registered for by the end of Day student add/drop the first week of the semester.
3. There is a limit of 15 Day students per UGO course allowed. (UGO courses with a total cap of 20 have a limit of 10 Day students.)
4. Courses with an “R” in the section are Day courses, not UGO courses, and do not count towards the one UGO course limit. International Students should consult with Kristen Malinowski-Paine before registering for courses with either an “ON” or “R” in the section code.

Day students planning to take courses for transfer credit from any other school must submit a “Course Transfer Request form” with an attached course description to the Registrar’s Office at least one week in advance of registration to allow time for processing.

• The maximum number of courses you may take over one summer is four
• Ten of your last twelve courses must be taken at Nichols
• A grade of “C”, 2.0 or better is required in all courses to be transferred
• Transferred courses do not count toward your Nichols Grade Point Average
• All course repeats must be taken at Nichols College

All Academic Internships, Research Associate Internships (RAI) and Teaching Associate Internships (TAI) must be submitted through “Handshake“.

The deadline to submit your Summer 2025 Internship on Handshake is May 16, 2025.

The deadline to submit your Fall 2025 internship on Handshake is August 29, 2025.

If you are not returning for the upcoming semester, please fill out the Student Withdrawal Form here.

Holds

• If you receive a HOLD message, you cannot register until you clear the hold with the appropriate office.
• If you receive a Business Office hold, please contact Student Financial Services either in person, by phone: 508-213-2288, or via email to: SFS@nichols.edu.
• If you receive an Academic hold, please contact the Office of the Registrar either in person, by phone: 508-213-2290, or via email to: Registrar@nichols.edu.

Other Issues

• Prerequisite Problem – If you receive a message that states “Course # prerequisites have not been started”, please select another course. If you think you have received this message in error please go to the Registrar’s Office.
• Closed Courses – If you see “Course # is “Closed”– enrollment not allowed,” you must select another course because the course is full. If you need a specific course to graduate or you need to register for a major course that is closed, please stop by the Registrar’s Office. We do not offer a waitlist option.
• Change Schedule – If you need to change a course or if you make a mistake and wish to drop a course go to “Register and Drop Sections”. Check the course you wish to drop. After you submit the change, a message will appear in the course status “Dropped from this Section”.
• Time Conflict – If you register for two courses that meet at the same time you will receive the following message: “Course # conflicts with Course #”.
• Overload Problem – If you receive this message “Registration in Course # puts student in overload”, “Petition is Required”. Check to make sure that you have dropped COLL-002-01.