• Pre-registration is mandatory for all students! Prior to pre-registration, students should check Courses@Brown to see if they have financial or other holds that would block them from registering. Pre-registration for the Spring 2027 term will begin on Tuesday, November 10th, at 12 p.m. EST.  Initial access to the registration system will be staggered as follows based on the semester level for Spring 2027 (Please be advised that you should log in to C@B at least 5 minutes before the system opens up for your time slot and once you submit registration not refresh your browser and allow the system to process your transactions in the queue):
  • Seniors (semester levels 07 and above): Tuesday, November 10th, 12 p.m. EST.  
  • Juniors (semester levels 05 and 06): Wednesday, November 11th, 12 p.m. EST.  
  • Sophomores (semester levels 03 and 04): Thursday, November 12th, 12 p.m. EST.  *Need Advising PIN unless entered as a transfer student! 
  • First-Years (semester levels 02 and 01) Friday, November 13^th, 12 p.m. EST.  *Need Advising PIN unless entered as a transfer student! 
• During pre-registration the maximum number of credits that a student may pre-register for is 4 Credits.
• Registration will be disabled on Tuesday, November 17th, at 5 p.m. EST at which point it will close down until just prior to the start of the Spring 2027 semester.

Independent Study/ Research:  Please note that students who are engaging in independent study or research credits must register via Courses@Brown along with their other courses.  Requests for overrides should be made directly via Courses@Brown as well unless instructed otherwise in the description or class notes. Students with registration related questions should contact the Registrar's Office at 401-863-2500 or registrar@brown.edu.

• Registration Restrictions and Instructor Overrides:  Courses with restrictions (pre-reqs, program restriction, instructor override required, etc.) will allow enrollment only to students who meet the restriction parameters. Courses with limited enrollment will allow registrations only until that limit has been reached. Students may not register for multiple courses meeting at the same time and instructors cannot override this. 
• It is important to note that you may see a message in the registration notes section when viewing course details that reads something to the effect that the system is unable to determine if you meet eligibility criteria and to contact instructor for possible override. Please note that true restriction checking happens AFTER you place the course in your cart so if you see a warning message there that truly means you will not get in without an override.
• If you wish to register for a course for which instructor permission is required or for which there is a registration restriction, you will not be permitted to do so unless and until the instructor has approved an override. Some instructors have specific means for granting overrides and those should be detailed in the course description or course details in Courses@Brown. If no specific instructions exist you can make the override request directly through Courses@Brown when you add the course to your cart. Be aware that an approved override does not itself register you for the course, however, you will be able to register after the override has been approved. 

Please Note: The University considers it a violation of its policy concerning the acceptable use of technical resources to create or utilize an automated solution to attempt to register for courses in Banner.  The use of such automated tools gives the user an unfair advantage over other students and increases the possibility of system degradation or failure. Students who are found to have used such an application will lose their ability to register online for the rest of the semester in question.

• Courses@Brown tutorials
• Registration questions: Banner Registration Hotline – 401‑863‑2300 or registrar@brown.edu
• Technical support: OIT Help Desk – 401‑863‑4357 or help@brown.edu 
  Support available 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Advising PINs: Students (excluding transfer students) currently in their first, second, or third semester will need to obtain an Advising PIN from their advisors in order to pre-register. 

Concentration Filing Deadline: No student may pre-register for his or her fifth semester unless a declaration of concentration has been approved by the concentration advisor in ASK. Remember, simply starting the declaration process in ASK is NOT enough!  Transfer students entering in their fifth semester are given an additional semester to declare. Brown/RISD Dual Degree students are allowed two extra semesters to submit their declarations.