FAQs | Spring 2027 & Winter 2026 Registration

You will need to complete the College of Business Registration Survey in order to to receive your ALT PINs for Winter 2026 and Spring 2027. As a reminder, this is the unique code you will need to register for courses.

After completing the survey, you will see your ALT PINs, and they will also be emailed to you with the subject line: 🚨Your Spring 2027 & Winter 2026 ALT PINS Are Available NOW! 🚨

You are not required to meet with your Academic Advisor in order to receive your ALT PIN. Please see the question above for more information on how to receive your PIN.

We encourage you to access your DegreeWorks Audit 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.

Some of our 100-level Core Business courses allow for this option. Please see below for further instructions. Please note that if you have 24+ completed and in-progress credits combined, then you are already eligible to register for sophomore level courses and do not have to complete the steps below. 

ACCT 151

• Requires that you first declare a major in either Accounting or Finance using the  Major Declaration Form.
• After your major is officially declared, you must then submit an Override Request Form.

FIN 125

• Requires that you first declare a major in Finance using the  Major Declaration Form.
• After your major is officially declared, you must then submit an Override Request Form.

MKT 111

• Only requires an Override Request Form.

Some of our departments will allow Sophomores to begin their major coursework in their Sophomore year, as long as they have the qualifying prerequisites to take those courses. Here are some of those major courses and qualifying prerequisites. 

• FIN 323 & FIN 328 with ECO 045, ACCT 151, and FIN 125 as prerequisites
• SCM 309 & SCM 340 - with SCM 186 as a prerequisite
• MKT 311 & 312 - with MKT 111 as a prerequisite
• ACCT 315 & 324 - with ACCT 152 as a prerequisite
• ACCT 311 - with ACCT 152 & BIS 111 as a prerequisite
• ACCT 316 - with ACCT 315 as a prerequisite

Effective Fall 2025, FIN 125 will no longer require ECO 045, ACCT 151 or MATH 081 as prerequisites. Those prerequisites have instead moved to FIN 323 & FIN 328 . If you are anticipating being a Finance major, you should still prioritize these courses to be able to progress in your Finance major and take FIN 323 & FIN 328.

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. 

Please note: 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. 

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, then please reach out to your Academic Advisor for next steps. If there is still an open section of that course, then you will not be eligible for an override. 

Please note: Although a course may be part of your degree requirements, that does not always mean that you are required to take the course in this upcoming semester. An example of a potentially necessary override would include a Senior with a Management major who needs to get into a required course only offered that semester, or a Sophomore planning on majoring in Accounting who could not secure a spot in ACCT 151.

• During the week of registration, connect with an advisor via Live Chat from Monday, November 9 - Thursday, November 13 from 7:30am-10am, EST.
• Email businessadvising@lehigh.edu - this inbox will be monitored by an Advisor on our team throughout the day.

A linked course pertains to a course with both a lecture and a recitation/lab. In order to register for the course, you must register for both. Please review the Registrar's instructions on how to register for linked sections/recitations very carefully. This is the most common error message that students receive during registration. 

Registration week will be held Monday, November 9 - Friday, November 13, 2026. Students can view their individual 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 strongly recommend using "Browse Classes by Semester" to ensure that you are seeing what courses are being offered in a specific semester (rather than using the course catalog option). 

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. Our team also has no oversight into this process and will not be able to assist with changing your time ticket. 

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.

This is a manual process and offices may be handling many registration inquiries during this time, please allow at least one week for processing. Your major declaration will not impact your ability to register for courses.

Please note: Students do not need to have their major declared to register for major-level courses.

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 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.

When searching for Non-Business Electives, please make sure to check the "Restrictions" tab when you click into a course to make sure that you'd be eligible to take it (see the below questions for guidance on what to do when there are restrictions). If there are restrictions, you can keep checking the course to see if they have been lifted - this is still a possibility up until courses begin in the spring!

Your Non-Business College Electives are a great opportunity to explore other subjects and interests while balancing your business-related coursework. We recommend prioritizing electives that meet your requirements and fit into your overall course schedule. 

While course availability and restrictions vary, 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 do count toward your BSBU 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.

Each Department handles overrides differently. Please see below on how to address your particular course request.

College of Arts and Sciences Courses:

• ART 003, ART 004, ART 011, ARCH 034: request permission via go.lehigh.edu/casenrollmentrequest
• Registration override needs for BIO, CHM, MATH, PHY: request via go.lehigh.edu/casenrollmentrequest
• All other restrictions will be ‘local’ to the course (ie: restricted to majors/minors only): please email the department coordinator for the department that is offering the course. This is an easy google search.

College of Health Courses

• For a course offering in the College of Health, please use the Special Permissions Form for requesting permission and await a response. 
   

Please note submitting these requests does not guarantee you enrollment in the course. It is common practice that departments will initially put more restrictions on a course to ensure students who NEED this particular course are able to enroll, and then open up more seats if they remain open. 

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. While you are welcome to submit your form now, as a university rule, overloads will not go into effect until Monday, November 30, 2026. Even if you receive confirmation that your overload request has been approved, no students will be able to add more than 18 credits to their schedule until that date. 
4. In the meantime, we recommend registering for your highest priority courses before your overload is approved. 

You will be able to add those extra credits to your schedule on Monday, November 30, 2026. This is a university rule, and no exceptions can be made. 

Students should only submit a Course Override form if the Business course they are looking to add has completely full sections and waitlists. Students should not submit an Override Request when the course they are seeking has other sections still open. Overrides will not be approved to override students into preferred sections or to take a course with a preferred instructor. Please refer to the Business Courses 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. 

Please note: Some of our departments regulate override requests for their major-level and minor courses. You may be redirected to the appropriate department coordinator for further guidance if an override is the appropriate step to take. 

Please review the Office of the Registrar’s Waitlist Guide.

If a seat becomes available in a course, students will have 24 hours 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.