Dear University of Washington students,
Autumn 2025 registration begins Thursday, May 8, 2025.
To get started with registration, review your academic plan for Autumn 2025 and seek guidance from an adviser if you need assistance. Then, sign into Register.UW and complete your pre-registration steps before your estimated registration date.
Register.UW
New! With the debut of Register.UW we have improved your registration experience! You will now use Register.UW for all your registration needs. This new tool will help you register for classes more quickly and confidently, as well as help you recover from registration errors more easily. While we have not been able to solve every registration issue (e.g., no waitlisting for full courses this time around), this release modernizes our technology to allow for ongoing improvements to your registration process moving forward.
Prepare for Registration
- Check out the 2025-2026 Academic Calendar and view the Period I Registration Dates Schedule for Autumn 2025.
- Pre-Registration: Complete your pre-registration steps on Register.UW between May 1 and 7.
40% of students do not complete these steps before registration opens and experience delays. Plan ahead and complete these steps now!
- Tuition Balance: Check your tuition balance.
- Hold/Blocks: Verify that you do not have any registration blocks by checking Register.UW. A common cause of registration holds could be:
- Not meeting the Measles, Mumps, and Meningococcal (MMM) immunization requirements, and/or
- New students needing to complete the Husky Prevention & Response module.
- Grading Options: Review the three choices related to Grading Options for S/NS and Numeric Grading.
- Spring Courses: Need to make a change to your spring registration? Review the Registration Change Guide for Spring 2025 that was emailed to you.
- Current Quarter Drop: Review information on how to drop one class and up to all of your classes through this process.
- Former Quarter Drop: Looking to drop a class from a former quarter? Review the Former Quarter Drop process information.
Critical: Required Husky Prevention & Response (Title IX) Student Course
Husky Prevention & Response is a course about preventing and responding to sex- and gender-based violence and harassment. New and returning (an absence of one quarter or more), first-year, transfer, graduate, and professional matriculated students are required to complete the 60–90 minute online student course.
Students Expecting to Graduate Next Quarter
- Be sure to contact your adviser to submit your graduation application by the application deadline, which is the third week of each quarter.
- Your diploma name does not have to match your UW student record name. Instead, you can have your diploma issued in the name of your choice by entering your information into the Diploma Name and Address form. This is also where you will put the address where you would like your diploma mailed.
- Complete and submit this form now to ensure that your paper diploma will reach the best permanent address after you graduate. If you have not entered information in the form when we order your diploma the information from your student record will be used to issue and mail your diploma.
Request a Disability Accommodation
It is the policy of the University to provide reasonable academic accommodations to students with disabilities. Please visit Disability Resources for Students (DRS) for more information.
Pronouns
The University of Washington is committed to ensuring everyone is welcomed here as their authentic self. To support this, the Husky Health & Well-Being website now hosts important information about Sharing Pronouns at UW.
Manage Your Name Types
The University provides students with the ability to provide the University with a variety of name types associated with your student records. Review the name types and to learn how to manage your name.
Registration Tampering Abuse Policy: Don’t buy, sell, trade, or hold spots in classes!
Know that buying, selling, trading, or holding open spots is a breach of the Registration Tampering Abuse Policy. Consequences include referral to the Student Code of Conduct process, a Registrar’s Hold on your record, and potential diploma withholding for graduating students until the conduct process is complete.
Sincerely,
HELEN B. GARRETT, Ed.D., University Registrar
University of Washington – registra@uw.edu