Registration for Classes at UGA

Registration Step-by-Step Instructions & Tips

Registration in college is so different from anything that you have ever experienced and can be somewhat of an interesting process. To even begin to register, you must see your advisor to clear the registration hold, that you will have each semester prior to registration. This meeting is where your advisor will guide you through the classes you need to take for your major, minor, or certificate for that given semester. Typically, most students choose to take between 12 and 15 hours per semester, which means they will usually be in 3-5 classes. It is important to remember that not every class is 3 hours, and therefore your total hours might be configured differently than you expect.

Once you are given this list of classes your advisor wants you to sign up for, most students choose to log into Courseoff and play around with the class times, days, and professors available for the courses you need to take. Courseoff is a free website that allows you to see all of the class times available for any given class and allows you to play around with all of the different class options to make your ideal schedule. While using this website does not register you for the classes, it gives you a quick and easy tool to aid you in your registration process on Athena.

Courseoff also gives you access to each class’ CRN number, which is a number that you can type into Athena to get the class to quickly pull up and therefore allows you to register quickly. While doing Courseoff, we recommend looking up the professors on Rate My Professor to read current student’s reviews of professors where they talk about the classes, the workload, the homework, etc. Courseoff also tells you the location of the classes, so if you are stacking classes one right after the other, we recommend mapping them to see if there is a bus going from one class to the other or if it is possible to walk.

The process to register in Athena:

• Go to the Athens homepage:
• Click log in to Athena
• Type in your username and password
• Click Login
• Click Student
• Click Registration
• Click Add or Drop Classes
• Select the given semester, ie. : Fall 2020
• Click Submit
• Scroll down and click Class Search
• Select the subject you are looking for
• Click Course Seach
• Select the section of the class you need to take
• Check the box next to the time, days, and professor you want to take
• Click Register

Different students register at different times based on hours achieved, major, honors, or graduate status

• Registration for Spring and Summer of 2021 will occur in November of 2020.
• Honors, PHARMD, Confirmed Service Members students will register on November 3, 2020.
• Graduate students will register on November 6, 2020.
• Seniors with 105+ credit hours will register on November 9, 2020.
• Seniors with 90-105 credit hours will register on November 10, 2020.
• Juniors with 75-89 credit hours will register on November 12, 2020.
• Juniors with 60-74 credit hours will register on November 13, 2020.
• Sophomores with 45-59 credit hours will register on November 17, 2020.
• Sophomores with 30-44 credit hours will register on November 18, 2020.
• Freshmen with 0-29 credit hours will register on November 20, 2020.

While it is important to remember that if you are a Sophomore but have 62 credit hours, you will register by your credit hours and not by your year at UGA. This is done to give first-class preference to students with the most hours. After you have scheduled your classes, we recommend going to campus and walking them to make sure you know where the buildings are and how long it will take to get from one place to another.

Madeleine Morris, Intern

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