Registration

Welcome to the registration page! The information provided below will assist you in figuring out what blazon of registration process yous will need to follow to register for classes at Youngstown State. Please note that prior to registration, you need to be admitted to Youngstown Country through the Function of Admissions (undergraduate) or the College of Graduate Studies. Your registration process starts inside the Penguin Portal. The information below will assist yous with the registration and withdrawal process. Yous tin also get assistance with course registration, complete withdrawal from a semester, viewing your grades, and much more in person at the Penguin Service Center or the Office of the Registrar.

  • Electric current Students Registration Process

    Electric current undergraduate and graduate students continuing their enrollment at YSU should gear up to participate in our priority registration process process. All current students take an online appointment to begin course registration; listed below are the task you lot should complete prior to your registration engagement.

    1. Cheque your e-mail: 1 month prior to the registration by appointment menstruation, current students will receive an email notification declaring the engagement and time they may annals for the adjacent semester. Students may also review the Priority Registration Calendar to learn when they can begin registering in the Penguin Portal.
    2. Check your status: At that place are various reasons a educatee could have a hold on his/her record preventing him/her from competing the registration process. Log in to the Penguin Portal and select "Registration" to check your status. Select the term in which you wish to annals. If there is a hold on your record, it volition exist indicated nether the "Registration Status" link. If a concord or holds on your business relationship exists, please follow the instructions of the agree, or contact the Penguin Service Middle at (330)941-6000 for additional assistance.
    3. Complete academic advisement: All undergraduate students are urged to consult with advisors in their major surface area. Each department/college has a procedure for either assigning an advisor to a student or having the student select an advisor. While advisement isn't required for all students, it is required for the following types of students: Freshman/Sophmore (with fewer than 60 hours of credit); Post-Secondary Enrollment Option/Early Admission Options Programme students; Any student non in skillful standing; All former students returning to the University; and Athletes. For academic advising questions or appointments, please contact your academic college directly.
    4. Review the Bulletin: The undergraduate and graduate catalogs provide course descriptions and major curriculum requirements to assist students better target a course of report.
    5. Review the Schedule of Classes: View what classes are existence offered each term to go on your academic progress toward graduation on track by using the online Schedule of Classes.
    6. Review how to register and how problems are resolved: While students may visit the Penguin Service Centre or Office of the Registrar for personal registration assistance, nosotros created a detailed Registration Instructions page, a brief clarification of on Registration Prerequisites, and a video on Wait Listing Instructions for guidance.
  • New Student Registration Procedure

    New freshmen and adults enrolling for their first semester equally caste-seeking students are required to nourish an orientation program. During the program, students will come across with an academic counselor and register for classes. For instructions on how to sign upward for an orientation program, get to Orientation.

    Graduate students enrolling for their first semester are required to encounter with their bookish section prior to registration. A listing of academic departments is available on the Colleges and Programs.

    Transfer students enrolling for their first semester as a degree-seeking educatee may annals for classes prior to attention an orientation program. Once accustomed for admission, a transfer student should follow the current student registration process listed above, and check out the transfer student checklist.

    Transient students are students who program to take courses at Youngstown State University without enrolling in a degree-seeking program. If students are taking a course to apply toward degrees at other schools, they should talk to their electric current institutions about what to take at YSU, apply to be a transient through the Office of Admissions, review our Priority Registration Calendar to see when transient students can annals, cheque out our Schedule of Classes to see what courses are available, and read our Registration Instructions prior to using the Penguin Portal for registration.

  • College for the Over Sixty Student Registration Process

    Each land university or higher shall permit any person who is sixty years of historic period or older and who has resided in the state for at least 1 year to attend undergraduate courses and classes without charging that person a tuition or matriculation fee, provided the omnipresence is on a noncredit footing, is in courses where classroom space is bachelor, and is approved by the instructors of the courses involved. If you are eligible for this programme, go to our College for the Over Sixty Programme page to learn how to participate!

  • Returning, Reactivated or Re-Enrolling Students

    Students absent-minded from Youngstown State University for three, consecutive semesters should file a readmission application through the Office of the Registrar. Students absent from the University less than three, consecutive semesters should follow the current pupil registration process listed above. Lastly, students who attended another institution during their break from YSU should contact the Office of Admissions to employ as a transfer student.

  • Withdrawal Procedure

    To withdraw from a single course, or from all courses (complete withdrawal), it is necessary to access the registration functions online via the Penguin Portal. Go to our Withdrawal Process department to learn how to complete this process.