FAQs | Summer & Fall 2026 Registration

All students should have received an email from Business Advising containing their ALT PINs on Tuesday, March 31. Please search your inbox for the subject line: 🚨Fall 2026 & Summer 2026 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, March 31. Please search your inbox for the subject line: 🚨Fall 2026 & Summer 2026 ALT PINS Available Now! 🚨

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 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 & FIN 125 as a prerequisite
• 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

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. 

Effective Fall 2025, FIN 125 will no longer require ECO 045, ACCT 151 or MATH 081 as prerequisites and has instead moved them to their major coursework FIN 323 and 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 and FIN 328.

Effective Summer 2025, MKT 111 will no longer require ECO 001 as a prerequisite.

If you are a student who will be admitted into the College of Business on April 1st, your new BSBU Academic Advisor will send you a welcome email that contains your ALT PIN so that you can register for Summer and Fall 2026 courses during registration week. 

Your home college will provide you with your ALT PIN prior to registering for Summer and Fall 2026 courses. As you wait for Spring grades, we recommend registering for some courses in the College of Business, as long as you meet the prerequisites and there are seats available. Here are a few options of courses:

• ECO 045
• SCM 186
• ECO 119 or 146
• LAW 201

When your petition is reviewed and processed, your new BSBU Academic Advisor will send you a welcome email with more information about the College of Business and specific course recommendations. You’ll then have all Summer to adjust your schedule and keep an eye out for seat availability in your Business courses.

Restrictions in use on other business courses will not be waived for the Fall or Spring semesters. Overrides of restrictions may be possible for select summer or winter coursework. Please advance requests through our Override Request Form.

If you are petitioning to change into the College of Business for the November 1 deadline or after, then you should prioritize taking our required courses to change into the College of Business: ECO 001 and MATH 021/081.

If you have already completed the ECO 001 and MATH 021/081 requirements, you may also consider the following courses, as long as you meet the prerequisites and there are seats available:

• ECO 045
• SCM 186
• ECO 119 or 146
• LAW 201
   

Students are encouraged to run a What-If Audit for BSBU to identify distribution and non-business electives accessible to you currently. 

For questions regarding the College Change process and timeline, please contact incbeugo@lehigh.edu. 

1. Connect with an Advisor via Live Chat from 9:00am-12:00pm, Monday-Friday. This will be the quickest way to get answers to any of your questions. During registration week from April 14 - 18, our Live Chat hours will be 7:30am-10:00am.
2. Book an advising appointment via Compass. Appointment slots do fill up quickly before registration, so we recommend booking ASAP. Some same-day appointments will also be available.
3. Email businessadvising@lehigh.edu - this inbox will be monitored by an Advisor on our team throughout the day. You can also email your Advisor with your registration questions. Please allow a 1-2 business day response time for emails. 

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, April 13 - Friday, April 17. 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 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. 

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.

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.

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. 

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. 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, it will not be reviewed until April 20, 2026. As a university rule, overloads will not go into effect until Monday, May 4, 2026, meaning no students will be able to register for more than 18 credits 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, May 4, 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. 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 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: 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.

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.