Registration and Course Enrollment

Incoming students register for classes individually on campus in the summer after their high school senior year with a faculty member or by phone. The academic advising program continues this counseling during orientation in September and throughout the first year.

The Office of the Registrar is responsible for processing the registrations for all courses offered at the College and for maintaining the official transcript of each Gustavus student. The transcript is a permanent record of a student’s formal academic experience, which includes:

1. All courses for which the student was registered at the end of the second week of the regular term or the end of the third day of January Interim or Summer Term.

2. Any changes in course registration made after the second week of the regular term or the third day of January Interim or Summer Term.

3. Grades for all courses from which the student did not withdraw.

4. A student’s academic probation status or suspension from the institution.

5. Majors and minors are noted on the transcript if they are complete and if they are part of the student’s graduation application.

A student’s transcript and correspondence files are confidential; no one other than Gustavus staff members is allowed access to these records without student permission. Official copies of a student’s transcript are made available only after receipt of a written request from the student. See “Access to Student Records” for further specific information about record confidentiality.

A student’s progress toward graduation is measured by the total number of courses completed and the distribution of those courses in the specified general education areas of the College. For the purpose of communicating with other institutions and for evaluating course work transferring into the institution, the College considers each of its full courses to be the equivalent of four semester hours or six quarter hours.

Each student is responsible for selecting courses and registering them with the Office of the Registrar prior to each term in the academic calendar. This proposed course of study must be approved by the student’s academic advisor before it is processed.