If you have an academic or financial hold on your accounts, you will not be allowed to register. Notification about account holds is provided on your course schedule.

To clear a hold from your account, you should contact the Registrar’s Office to resolve academic holds and the Student Financial Services Office to resolve financial holds.

Prior to registration each semester, you must also be cleared for registration by your academic advisor. Contact and arrange to meet with your advisor prior to the beginning of registration each semester.

Normal course loads at Northland College are 12 to 17 credits for the fall and winter semesters and 3 to 5 credits in the spring term.

Overload charges apply for students taking more than 17 credits in the fall and winter semesters or more than 5 credits in the May term.

Students taking 20 credits or more in a single term (6 or more credits in May term) must obtain approval from the dean of academic affairs prior to the beginning of the term.

If you wish to enroll in courses requiring instructor consent, you must meet with the instructor prior to registration for their approval and complete the add/drop form.

Instructor consent is needed in the following situations:

• Course Capacity: course is full and instructor agrees to increase the course capacity
• Prerequisite: prerequisite is not met and instructor agrees to waive the prerequisite
• Instructor Consent: instructor consent is needed to register
• Time Conflict: time conflict between two courses on your schedule and signature needed of instructor(s) affected by conflict indicating that the conflict has been worked out.

Adding a Class

If you wish to add one or more courses after a term begins, you must complete the form below. Course(s) will not be added to the your schedule until the completed form is received by the Registrar’s Office and approved by the instructor(s).

Dropping a Class

You may drop courses until the end of the add/drop period each term. Drops submitted up to and including the second Friday of the fall or winter sessions or the first Wednesday of the spring session will be removed from your transcript.

Exceptions to this policy will only be allowed in unusual circumstances by petitioning the Academic Standings Committee. Petitions for late add/drop of courses approved by the Academic Standings Committee after the add/drop period will be charged a late add/drop fee. Know the Administrative Drop Policy.

Add/Drop Form

Once the add/drop deadline has passed, you may withdraw from a course until the end of the course withdrawal period by completing the form below.

If you are currently at full-time status, 12 or more credits, withdrawing from a course does not affect your financial aid, housing, or full-time status. You simply receive a grade of “W” for the course and do not earn the credits for the course. Withdrawing from a course may impact athletic eligibility.

Course Withdraw Forms submitted after the withdrawal deadline has passed will not be processed. Exceptions to this policy will only be allowed in unusual circumstances by petitioning the Academic Standings Committee. Make sure to understand the student petition of academic policy before submitting your petition.

Course Withdraw Form

Please review Northland’s academic policies and learn more about how to submit your petition.