FAQs | Spring 2026 Registration

All students should have received an email from Business Advising containing their ALT PINs on Tuesday, October 28. Please search your inbox for the subject line:🚨Winter & Spring ALT PINS Available Now!🚨

You are not required to meet with your Academic Advisor in order to receive your ALT PIN. 

All students should have received an email from Business Advising containing their ALT PINs on Tuesday, October 28. Please search your inbox for the subject line: 🚨Winter & Spring ALT PINS Available Now! 🚨

We encourage you to access your DegreeWorks to track your degree progress - this is a personalized checklist of your degree requirements.

Please also review our curriculum guides based on your catalog year (the year you started here at Lehigh). We typically advise students to take three Business courses and two Non-Business Elective courses in a semester. The number of Business and Non-Business courses may change once you begin taking major related courses.

Students may be granted a waiver of the "sophomore status" requirement for ACCT 151 if they have declared a major in ACCT or FIN. 

To do so, please first submit a Major Declaration Form. You must then submit an Override Request Form. You may leave the CRN number blank where it asks.

Please note that it may not always be in your best interest to take these courses within your first year, especially if you are taking ECO 045 and/or MATH 081/021 that semester, or have several 000-level courses left to complete. Please connect with your advisor if this applies to you. 

Students may be granted a waiver of the "sophomore status" requirement for FIN 125 if they have declared a major in ACCT or FIN. It’s important to note that in order to take FIN 125, you must either take ACCT 151 concurrently with FIN 125, or take ACCT 151 first. 

To do so, please first submit a Major Declaration Form. You must then submit an Override Request Form. You may leave the CRN number blank where it asks.

Please note that it may not always be in your best interest to take these courses within your first year, especially if you are taking ECO 045 and/or MATH 081/021 that semester, or have several 000-level courses left to complete. You should prioritize taking ECO 045 & MATH 081/021 first, as these are requirements for your upper level Finance coursework. Even if you took ACCT 151 & FIN 125, if you have not yet passed ECO 045 & MATH 081/021, you would not be able to proceed with your upper level Finance courses. 

Please connect with your advisor if this applies to you.

The Department of Marketing will grant waivers of the "sophomore status" requirement for MKT 111 for students interested in enrolling. Please submit an Override Request Form.

1. During registration week, our Live Chat will be available Monday, November 10 - Friday, November 14 from 7:30am-10:00am each day. This will be the quickest way to get answers to any of your questions. 
2. Having trouble finding an available advising appointment in Compass? You're also welcome to email your advisor with your registration questions. Please allow at least a 1-2 business day response time for emails. For urgent questions, please contact businessadvising@lehigh.edu. This email will be monitored by an advisor on our team throughout the day.

The courses you are eligible to register for is based on your completed and in-progress credits. However, you will still need to meet the prerequisites or restrictions that a course has. 

Example: Your completed and in progress credits add up to 32 credits. You are eligible to take sophomore coursework, like ACCT 151, but you may not meet the prerequisites for ACCT 152. 

Note: Please refer to the Business Courses section of this page for more specifics on what you are able to register for. 

Registration week will be held between Monday, November 10 - Friday, November 14. Students can view their assigned registration date and time by logging into the Student Registration portal in Banner and selecting ‘Prepare for Registration’ in the left column, then selecting the term which they are registering for.

Please keep in mind that when a student can register is based on completed credits (in-progress credits do not count).

Courses are available to view in Banner now at go.lehigh.edu/studentregistration!

We recommend using "Browse Classes by Semester" to ensure that you are seeing what courses are being offered in a specific semester. 

When viewing courses in Banner, we recommend using the "Browse Classes by Semester" search function in the upper lefthand corner of your registration screen. 

It seems that using the Plan Ahead feature will sometimes pull the entire course catalog, instead of displaying only courses that are available in that particular semester. Using "Browse Classes by Semester" will ensure that you are seeing what courses are being offered in a specific semester. 

You should check your account to see which office you need to contact to clear their hold:

Login to Banner (Prepare for Registration → Select a Term → Registration Status)

The most common account holds are either a Bursar’s Office hold or a Health Center hold. The Advising team cannot lift an account hold for students. Instead, you can find the contact information for these two offices below:

Bursar’s Office: https://financeadmin.lehigh.edu/bursar

Health & Wellness Center: https://studentaffairs.lehigh.edu/content/health-wellness-center

The Registrar’s office auto assigns time tickets primarily based on completed credits. You will not be able to adjust your assigned time ticket.

Please take a look at the Registrar's explanation of linked courses and how to register for them here.

To declare your Business major, please use our Major Declaration Form. If you want to declare two majors, you’ll need to fill out two separate forms - make sure to complete each one correctly, as they will differ. 

For example, if you’re declaring a double major in Finance (FIN) and Accounting (ACCT), start with the form for FIN. Make sure to note that it’s not a second major on that form. Then, submit a second form for your ACCT major, indicating that it is a second major and that your first major is FIN.

Please go to the department website of the minor you are looking to declare, and find the Minor Declaration form. If no form is available on the website, please contact the Department Coordinator - you can typically find the Department Coordinator’s contact information by going to the department’s website and checking their contact/staff page. You may also contact your Academic Advisor. 

Please go to the department website of the minor you are looking to declare, and find the Minor Declaration form. If no form is available on the website,  please contact the Department Coordinator - you can typically find the Department Coordinator’s contact information by going to the department’s website and checking their contact/staff page.

To search for a Non-Business Elective, we recommend selecting the "Advanced Search" feature in the registration portal and using the "College" search field. From there, you're welcome to search for classes in any college that's not the College of Business. 

You should find plenty of options for electives there - please just make sure to check the "Restrictions" tab when you click into a course to make sure that you'd be eligible to take it. We recommend trying to find a class in a subject that you're interested in and would enjoy taking. Your Non-Business College Electives are a great opportunity to branch out and explore your various interests outside of Business! If you continue to struggle, please contact your academic advisor who may have a limited number of recommendations.

As mentioned above, we recommend trying to find a class in a subject that you're interested in and would enjoy taking. Your Non-Business Electives are a great opportunity to branch out and explore your various interests outside of Business! Some students use this opportunity to explore a minor outside of Business - since you are required to take a number of Non-Business Electives as part of your Business degree, these minors typically fall in under your Business degree requirements.

To search for classes with specific attributes in Banner, please use the Attribute search field and type in the appropriate attribute (for example, Business Diversity, Humanities, etc). 

Tips: 

1. If you are searching for multiple attributes at once (for example, Business Diversity and Humanities), make sure you pay attention to the Attributes column. The search will pull any course that has at least one of those attributes - it does not only pull courses that have both.
2. Make sure to check the "Restrictions" tab when you click into a course to make sure that you'd be eligible to take it. 

Email the Professor of the course, and copy the Department Coordinator. You can typically find the Department Coordinator’s contact information by going to the department’s website and checking their contact/staff page.

If you are not eligible for a course, then please seek another course without those restrictions. You are welcome to keep checking back on the status of the course up until the course actually begins. While course restrictions may occasionally be lifted (typically 2 weeks after registration), we cannot rely on this happening consistently.

1. First, check the Overload Request Grid & Guidelines to see if an SOS Petition Form would be required (in addition an Overload Request Form).
2. Once you identify which forms you will need, you can find and complete the appropriate ones on our Business Forms page.
3. Please note that the advising team will not be processing any Overload Request Forms until after November 17. You are welcome to submit the form, and we will hold it until after the 17th. As a University rule, Overloads will not go into effect until Monday, December 1. 

You will be able to add those extra credits to your schedule on Monday, December 1, 2025.

Students should only submit a course Override form if the Business course they are looking to add has completely full sections and waitlists. Override forms cannot be used to override students into preferred course sections, and cannot be used when that course has other sections that are still open. Please refer to the Waitlists section under the question "I'm technically able to register for an open section..." for more information. 

If every section of a Business course is full and you are required to take that course this semester in order to graduate in a timely manner, and you would therefore like to request an override, please reach out to your Academic Advisor for next steps. Please also reach out if you are unsure if an override is an appropriate request for you. 

An Override form is required for first-year students who are looking to take ACCT 151, FIN 125, or MKT 111 without sophomore standing. Please refer to the Core Business Courses section for more information on how to proceed with this request.

Please note: Each department regulates override requests for their major-level and minor courses. Override requests are not approved by the Lehigh Business Undergraduate Office.

Please first refer to the Non-Business College Electives section of this page to see if your question was answered there. If it was not answered, then please email the Department Coordinator for that department to seek more information (we recommend going to the department’s website and checking their contact/staff page.)

Please note: Each department regulates override requests for their major-level and minor courses. 

Please review the Office of the Registrar’s Waitlist Guide. There is no guarantee that you will get into courses you are waitlisted for. Unfortunately, advising cannot offer those odds, as they depend on a variety of factors, some of which cannot be predicted.

If a seat becomes available in a course, you will be emailed. Students will have 24 hours after that email was sent to claim the seat. If the student does not respond within the 24 hour window, the seat will go to the next student on the waitlist and you will be removed from the waitlist. Please note that weekend days are included in the 24 hour window to claim a seat in a course.

You may only waitlist yourself for one section of a course. You cannot waitlist yourself for a different section of a course for which you are already registered (for example, you cannot register for MKT 111 and also join the waitlist for a section that has a more preferable time slot).

If this course is critical for your degree progress or an important prerequisite to your major coursework, we highly recommend registering for the open section of the course. In the meantime, you can continue to monitor your preferred section, as seat capacities and enrollment can fluctuate - there is still a chance you may be able to switch sections if a seat becomes available. But your highest priority should be securing the open seat in that course.

We typically do not recommend emailing your Professor with waitlist concerns - though this can vary across the University, many Professors cannot remove students from a waitlist. Remaining on the waitlist is your best option while waiting to register. We encourage you to regularly check your email for updates on waitlist movements and to consult your Academic Advisor to see if a Course Override may be appropriate for your situation.