Registrar

Registrar's Office
The Office of the Registrar at BUSPH provides efficient, personal service to students seeking to manage the logistics of their education.


  • Summer I classes at SPH start on Monday, May 20.  Summer II classes start on Monday, July 1.
  • Undergraduate registration is ongoing; undergraduate who cannot register for an SPH class must use the wait list form. Please, do not contact individual instructors. As a reminder, only undergraduates who are juniors and seniors and have a GPA over 3.0 are eligible to register for classes at the 700-level and above.  Sophomores may register for 500-level classes. 
  • Graduate students who cannot register for an SPH Fall 2013 class that is full or flagged please complete the SPH online wait list form.
  • Nondegree student fall registration starts on July 2. Summer II registration is ongoing. For more information, click here.  After reading the packet, submit a registration form.

Course Offerings:

To the find the most up-to-date information about what courses are being offered at BUSPH, visit the Student Link. Choose the semester of interest and "SPH" for college to see meeting dates and times, course descriptions, enrollment and professors for all courses being offered. The Course Rotation Guide lists the expected semester a course will be offered for all courses.

For a list of courses at other BU graduate schools that are pre-approved for transfer credit to the MPH degree, please click here. Students must document their intention to take the class for MPH degree credit by completing a pre-approved class transfer credit request form and submitting the form prior to the start of the class. No additional documents are needed. Students must earn a B or better for the class to transfer. Students are welcome to take classes anywhere at BU, but must be aware that the tuition for classes not approved for the degree program in which they are registered cannot be paid by federal loans or SPH scholarship money. This means a student who is full-time must have a full-time SPH schedule before he or she enrolls in a class that is not approved for his or her degree program (a PDP class, for example). A part time student is more limited and should talk with the Office of Student Financial Services.


Course Descriptions & Evaluations:

To search for course descriptions of courses taught at Boston University, visit the Boston University Course Description Search page. Download the BU Mobile App to your smartphone, and Course Search is part of the app.

Course descriptions of current SPH courses are also viewable in the bulletin.

To review student course evalutations for SPH courses from past semesters, visit the BUSPH Course Evaluations website. A BU username and Kerberos password are required for access.

Helpful Links:

Compliance Requirements for Students
For Current Students
Registration information
Transfer Credit
Cross Registration within Boston Consortium Schools
Non-Degree Students
Course schedules
Course Rotation Guide 2012-2013
Concentration Change Form
Unofficial transcripts and grade reports
Withdrawals and leaves of absence
Monitoring your degree progress
Certification for graduation


Questions? Contact us.