Registering for mandatory courses and electives during the course registration period depends on your year of study. You can find your study programme in the Course Catalogue

• First-year's Bachelor's students: you will be registered for all courses of your first year of study by the Education Desk.
• 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 the following in mind: 
  • Also register for (first year's) courses which you need to retake. 
  • Electives: You can find more information about possible electives and requirements in the Course Catalogue under ‘Electives’ for your degree programme. For some electives, the rule ‘full means full’ applies. This is also mentioned clearly in the planner. Also be considerate towards your fellow students: do not register for too many electives. You can always swap or add electives later, provided there are places available.
  • Transitional arrangements: Look carefully under ‘Transitional arrangements’ in the Course Catalogue for any replacement courses in your curriculum.
  • Register your specialisation if applicable.
  • Pre-Master's students: you will be registered for all courses of your pre-Master's programme by the Student Administration. Registering for any extra deficiency is your own responsibility.
  • Master’s students: you register via GLASS for all the courses from period 1, period 2 – 3 and semester 2 in separate course registration periods. If you are already a Master’s student, please do not forget to check if any transitional arrangements are required.

Do you need assistance with putting together your curriculum? Contact the Study Advisers on time. 

There are a lot of possibilities when you want to take electives. It gives you the 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 of your programme in the Course Catalogue.

• Yes, just like EB-students you need to register for courses except students who will follow one of the following minors: Amsterdam Data Science and Artificial Intelligene, Entrepreneurship, Sustainability & Economics or one of the Business Administration minors. They will be registered.
• 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: Transition to the Master / Admission to the Master

• Yes, if you are a Bachelor’s or Pre-Master’s student at UvA EB and want to start a Master’s programme here, you need to register for courses yourself via GLASS.
• 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

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• Information for course registration Bachelor’s courses
• Information for course registration Master’s courses

• If you do not yet meet the entry requirements of a course , but you are able to meet these before the start of the course, then just register for the course. In that case. In that case you will have a conditional registration.
• 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 course 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 31 August.

> More information: flexible learning

When creating your timetable, mandatory courses from the same academic year and the previous year are considered; there will be no overlap in the timetable when registering.

If you want to follow courses from several years or elective courses, it is important that you make sure that your courses do not overlap in the timetable when registering. Check whether your chosen courses for the entire semester do not have any overlap in tutorial groups, lectures or exam before registering.

Register for all the courses that you wish to follow in semester 1, including the courses that you need to retake. After all resit grades have been registered, we will deregister you from the courses for which you have received a passing grade. Only after that, we will check whether you have nor registered for more than 42 ECTS. This is the maximum number of ECTS credits that you may register for. Do you need help with creating a good planning? Contact the study adviser.

• 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. Changes can be found under ‘Transitional arrangements’ in the Course Catalogue. If this is not the case, please contact the Education Desk before the course registration closes.
• Check in your Planner whether you have selected the right filters.

The following is applicable during course registration: 

• 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.
• Elective: choose another elective.

There are multiple explanations:

• The course is still in the Planner, you have not clicked on the 'Register' button yet. 
• You do not meet the entry requirements, which is why you can not register. 

In case none of the above explanations is applicable, please contact the Education Desk.

There are multiple explanations:

• The course is not offeredin the upcoming 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 Education Desk 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).

• 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, and that your last result counts. Therefore it is important to deregister in time if you decide not to take a course, otherwise you will receive a NAP (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 Education Desk will register you 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

• 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 published at latest in the first week after the start 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 NAP (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 NAP does not count as an examination attempt. A NAp 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