Dear University of Washington students,
Winter 2026 registration begins Thursday, October 30, 2025.
To get started with registration, review your academic plan for Winter 2026 and seek guidance from an adviser if you need assistance. Then, sign into Register.UW and complete your pre-registration steps before your registration start date.
Prepare for Registration
- Check the 2025-2026 Academic Calendar and view the Period I Registration Dates for Winter 2026.
- Gain a better understanding of the factors that determine your registration date.
- Pre-Registration: Complete your pre-registration steps on Register.UW.
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.
- Autumn Courses: Need to make a change to your spring registration? Review the Registration Change Guide for Autumn 2025 that was emailed to you.
Register.UW Updates
On the morning of your registration start date, you can start preparing for registration on Register.UW prior to 6 a.m. (PT). You will be able to import previously planned sections from MyPlan, or add sections to your registration cart by SLN or course code.
- You will not be able to submit your registration until 6 a.m.
- When your registration begins, the register button will automatically appear and allow you to submit your registration.
- You can enter multiple SLNs by simply typing or copy/pasting them, using spaces or commas as separators.
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. Students can submit this form more than once.
Students who do not submit their diploma name or mailing address through the designated form prior to their graduation date and/or diploma order will have their diplomas issued using their Student Record Name and sent to their current mailing address.
Priority Registration and DRS Accommodations
Not all students who are registered with Disability Resources for Students have the priority registration accommodation. You can learn more about DRS Priority Registration eligibility at the DRS website or contact your DRS adviser for more information.
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