Enrollment Priorities

Winter 2025: Graduate Enrollment Priorities

It is highly recommended that students check this page periodically. The timeline will be followed for the most part, but course restrictions are subject to change, such as in the case of highly impacted courses where restrictions may be extended or adjusted at a time other than initially planned.

ICS Student Affairs reserves the right to adjust restrictions and the timeline at any time.

Important Notes:

Graduates outside of the School of ICS

Graduate students outside of the School of ICS must wait until 12:00pm December 6, 2024 to enroll in ICS courses. No exceptions to this registration schedule will be made.

Graduates within the School of ICS

ICS Graduate Students who wish to enroll in a restricted ICS course may contact an ICS graduate counselor for assistance.
ICS Graduate Students who wish to enroll in an ICS undergraduate-level course and have received permission from the instructor may email their request for authorization to ucounsel@uci.edu, starting December 6, 2024.

ICS Undergraduate Students

ICS Undergraduate Students who wish to enroll in an ICS graduate-level course and have received permission from the instructor may email gcounsel@ics.uci.edu for assistance beginning December 6, 2024.

ICS strictly enforces the campus’ Week 2 add/drop deadline:

The add/drop deadline for Winter 2025 is 5:00pm, Friday, January 17, 2025.

School/Major restrictions on GRADUATE courses will follow the below timeline:

posted: 11/4/2024
updated: 11/4/2024

GRADUATE COURSE UPDATES
Starting Date(s)	Restriction Updates
11/18/2024 Fall 2024 Week 8 School/Major restrictions active	*COMPSCI:* Restricted to CS, NS, SE, and STATS graduate students only, *except: CS 221, CS 265, CS 271, and CS 274A: CS, CmptSci, NS, SE graduate students only All courses with suffix ‘P’, e.g., CS 250P: are restricted to students in the MCS and/or MDS programs only DATA: All courses are restricted to students in the MDS program only IN4MATX: Restricted to INF, SE, CS, and STATS graduate students only, except: INF 283, INF 284, INF 289: Restricted to students in the MHCID program only* NET SYS: Restricted to NS graduate students only STATS: Restricted to Stats graduate students only, except: Stats 202, Stats 281B: All graduate students except Statistics *SWE:* Restricted to INF, SE, CS, and STATS graduate students only, *except:* All courses with suffix ‘P’, e.g., SWE 261P: restricted to students in the MSWE program only
12/6/2024 School/Major restrictions lifted	8:00am: School/Major Restrictions removed from ICS graduate-level courses ICS graduate level courses now open to all graduate students. ICS Graduate Students who wish to enroll in an ICS undergraduate-level course and have received permission from the instructor may email their request for authorization to ucounsel@uci.edu ICS Undergraduate Students who wish to enroll in an ICS graduate-level course and have received permission from the instructor may email gcounsel@ics.uci.edu for assistance
12/16/24	5:00pm: Fee payment deadline for the Winter 2025 quarter Missing the fee payment deadline will result in your being dropped from Winter courses
12/18/24	12:00pm: WebReg re-opens for continuing registration
12/24/24 – 1/1/25	Winter Recess. Campus offices are closed.
1/6/25 Winter 2025 Week 1	First day of Winter quarter instruction.
1/17/25 Winter 2025 Week 2	5:00 pm: Add, Drop, Change Grade Option deadline Last day to add, drop, or change grade option in WebReg for any ICS course. Check your position in any waitlisted course(s), and be sure to drop if it is no longer needed/desired.

Updated: 11/4/2024

Posted: 11/4/2024