• In order to follow lectures and tutorials you need to register for courses during the registration periods. When you register in time it is guaranteed that you can take the mandatory courses that are part of your programme.
• If you participate in midterm exams, end of term exams and resits without having registered for the course in question, no grade will be registered.

The courses for which you need to register depends on your year of study. 

• First-year's Bachelor's students: you are registered for all courses of your first year of study by the Student Administration.
• Second- and third-year's Bachelor's students, elective students and minor students: you register for courses yourself for a whole semester (3 periods). Keep in mind the following: 
  • Register for all Bachelor's courses in semester 1, including courses that you need to retake. You can deregister during the summer for courses that you manage to pass in the meantime.
  • Taking electives for the next year of study? Look under 'Electives' in the Course Catalogue for your degree programme for more information about possible electives and admission requirements. Certain electives are offered on a firstcome, first-served basis. This is clearly indicated in the academic plan. Be considerate towards your fellow students and do not register for too many electives. You can always swap or add electives later, provided there are places available.
  • Look carefully under 'Transitional arrangement' in the Course Catalogue for any replacement courses for your curriculum.
  • Register your specialisation if applicable.

1. Pre-Master’s students: you are registered for all courses of your Pre-Master’s programme by the Student Administration. When starting your Master's you need to register for courses yourself.
2. Master's students who have taken Bachelor’s, Pre-Master’s  or Master’s courses at UvA EB before: you register for courses of period 1, period 2 - 3, and semester 2 in separate course registration periods.
3. New Master's students (i.e. never took courses at UvA EB): you are registered for period 1 courses by the Student Administration. For courses of period 2 - 3 and semester 2 you register yourself in separate course registration periods.

> More information: Course registration periods

There are a lot of possibilities when you want to take electives. It give you to opportunity to come up with your own set op courses that fit your interests. However, there are some rules that you need to abide. Moreover, depending on the course, you may have to apply for permission to add the course to your programme. 

You can find all the information you need on our dedicated page for Electives or under the Electives tab in your programme in the Course Catalogue.

• Yes, like EB-students you need to register for courses except students who are in one of the following minors: Amsterdam Data Science and Artificial Intelligene, Sustainability and Economics or Entrepreneurship.
• Students from other universities who take optional courses or a minor: you need to enrol as a guest student (‘bijvak’student) before you can register for courses.

> More information: Optional courses / Minors

• Yes, if you are a Bachelor’s or Premaster’s student at UvA EB and want to start a Master’s programme here, you need to register for courses yourself.
• You need to enrol in Studielink for the Master’s programme in order to do that.
• If you want to start your Master's with corona-related study delay, please make sure that you also re-enrol for your Bachelor's degree and register for the courses you still have to take.

> More information: Transition to the Master / Admission to the Master

A normal workload is 30 ECTS per semester. You are permitted to register for a maximum of 42 ECTS per semester, including Honours courses (if you're an Honours student).
> More information: Maximum number of ECTS credits

During the course registration periods you register for courses and tutorials via uva.nl/courseregistration.
> More information: Course registration periods and Step-by-step guide to course registration

• If you do not yet meet the entry requirements of a course yet, but you are able to meet these before the start of the course, then just register for the course. In that case, you will have a conditional registration.
• If after the course registration period it turns out that you do not meet the entry requirements, please contact the Education Desk to look for an alternative.
• If you do not meet the course-specific entry requirements, but you can demonstrate that you have obtained the required prerequisite knowledge through courses outside UvA Economics and Business, you may want to request dispensation for the entry requirements with the Board of Examiners.

> More information: Entry requirements

• No, a registration for a course automatically gives you permission to do the (midterm) exams and the resit within one academic year.
• In case you want to retake the course in another period, you have to register for the tutorial of that period separately.

> More information: Exams/resits

If you participate in the pilot Flexible learning, keep in mind that you pay for the courses you register for.

It is possible to cancel a course registration before the start of the semester. So for courses in the first semester the deregistration deadline is the 31 of August.

Check out the website about flexible learning for more information.

Yes this is possible. It is important to make sure that your courses have no overlap in the timetable. Therefore you have to check for the entire semester that the courses chosen by you, have no tutorials, lectures or exams at the same time. You can do so by adding the courses to the timetable website and comparing the lecture and exam dates and times.

The university only makes sure that mandatory courses in the same study year or the year before have no overlap, the rest is up to you.

The timetable for semester 1 of the academic year 2020-2021 will be published in phases corresponding to the times when you register for tutorials.

You can register for all the courses you want to take in the first semester or for the Master's courses in period 1, including the courses you still have to resit. Once all resit results have been registered, we will deregister you from the courses you have passed. It is only after this that we will check for the limitation of 42 credits (or 18 credits in the first period of the Master's programme). This is the maximum number of credits for you are permitted to register.

The study adviser can help you with planning your study programme.

• Check in the UvA Course Catalogue if the specific course is offered this semester. If you cannot find the course here, it is possible that the study programme has changed. More information: Changes in the academic year. If this is not the case, please contact the Education Desk before the course registration closes.
• Check the filter settings in your Planner. 

During the phase 2 and 3 of the course registration we closely monitor the tutorials and expand the capacity when possible. The following is applicable:

1. Compulsory course: try it again at a later moment or, if available, register for the waiting list (WL) of the course. The Student Administration will place you in a tutorial before the start of the period. A registration for the waiting list guarantees that you will be able to take the course.
2. Elective: choose another elective.

Unfortunately, this will not be the case. The group sizes have been made with careful consideration between the demand and what is realistic. We think it's important that there is still enough space for interaction between participants and that the course has to remian manageable for the teacher. Group sizes have been determined taking into consideration these factors and larger groups are deemed not feasible. 

There could be various reasons:

• You added the course to the Planner, but you forgot to use the 'Register' button, or;
• You cannot register because you do not meet the course-specific entry requirements, and therefore you are not able to register for the course.
• If neither of the abovementioned reasons apply in your case, please contact the Education Desk.

There could be various reasons:

• The course is not offered next semester. More information: Course Catalogue.
• You do not meet the entry requirements. More information: Entry requirements.
• You are a Master’s student and trying to register for a Bachelor’s course. This is only possible via Contract education.
• The course registration period has not started yet or has already ended. More information: Course registration periods.

First-year's students are registered by the Student Administration for all courses of their first year of study. After the first year you must arrange your registration yourself for all courses (including the first-year courses that you must retake).

The timetable for period 1 of semester 1 2020-2021 will be published in the beginning of July. The timetable for period 2 and 3 will be published after the start of the academic year, most likely the second half of September.

• At uva.nl/courseregistration in the tab ‘Planner’ you can add your courses to the timetable website via the button ‘Open Timetable’.
• On the timetable website you can check your timetable. At the right side of the page you can refine your schedule by selecting the relevant activities via the arrow behind each course using the option ‘Filter activities ’.
• In this way you can create a schedule without overlap before completing your course registration in the Planner via the button ‘Register’.

Yes, it is possible to retake a passed course. However, please keep in mind that this counts as an examination attempt. Therefore it is important to deregister in time if you decide not to take a course, otherwise you will receive a NA (the Dutch abbreviation for ‘non-attendance’).

• You can register or change your specialisation via uva.nl/courseregistration by clicking on the specialisation/track of your choice and registering on the ‘Waiting List (WL)’. The Student Administration will process your choice and inform you when this is done.
• This can be done during the academic year, but preferably during the course registration period of the first semester of the new academic year.
• Please note that you also have to register for the courses of your specialisation.

• You can deregister on uva.nl/courseregistration. Under 'Overview of Registrations' you can select the specific course and deregister.
• Deregister as soon as possible, but no later than  the Monday of the second week of classes of the period in question.

> More information: Deregistration

You can find all your registrations at uva.nl/courseregistration under 'Overview of Registrations'. The number after the 'WG' indicates your tutorial group.

• The Student Administration will place you in a tutorial before the start of the period.
• Check the tutorial you have been placed in at uva.nl/courseregistration under 'Overview of Registrations'.

> More information: Waiting list

Please check out: Too late for course registration

• A valid course registration is a prerequisite for access to the Canvas page of the course.
• The Canvas page of a specific course will be made available in the first week of lectures of the course. Therefore it could be the case that the page is not available yet.
• In other scenarios, please contact the Education Desk.

• If you fail to cancel your registration in time for a course that you do not intend to take, you will receive a NA (non-attendance) registration in SIS, which does not count as an examination attempt. Please make sure you withdraw your registration at uva.nl/courseregistration no later than the Monday of the second week of classes of the period in question.
• A registered NA does not count as an examination attempt. A NA registration is not a result, but it will overwrite a possible previous grade. 
• Registration of a NA has no consequences for graduation with distinction (Cum Laude). 

> More information: Cum Laude