Course Registration

The Registrar's office is located upstairs in Wright Hall. Office hours are posted on the door and on the registrar's outgoing telephone message. To reach the registrar, call 1.617.868.3450 ext. 525 or email at registrar@eds.edu. Registration materials are also available outside the office.

Click here to download a copy of the current Academic Handbook.

Click here to download registration forms.

The Registration Process

The registration process begins with your Curriculum Conference (First Year MA and MDiv Students), Program Conference (Second Year MDiv Students), or Faculty Advisor (for Certificate, DMin, and MA/MDiv students not in conferences).

Complete a registration petition which includes: your full legal name, degree program and program year; your course selections, enrollment status for each course; your adviser's signature and signed authorization from the Business Office for both financial and heatlh approval.

Also complete the Personal Data Form and the Government Compliance Form each fall. Please see the current Academic calendar for registration periods and deadlines. If forms are not received by the deadline, a late fee will be assessed.

Other Registration Information

Change of Registration Petition- Please see the current Academic calendar for dates related to adding or dropping courses and/or change from credit to audit, audit to credit, course to minicourse, or minicourse to course for the current semester.

Full and half time status

Full-time students must register for the equivalent of 4 or more courses per semester. Half-time students must register for the equivalent of 2 to 3 courses per semester, 5 per year.
Foundations Course = 1 course.
Curriculum Conference = 1 course per semester.
Program Conference = .5 per semester
Final Year Conference = 0 in fall, .5 in spring
One mini-course = .5 course
Field Education/CPE = 1 course per semester

All students are considered to be full-time unless they have petitioned for a change in status. To change your status, write a letter to the registrar explaining your circumstances and requesting the status change. Your status change will be considered at the next Degrees Committee meeting. For questions about your status visit, call or email the registrar.

BTI Cross-Registration

EDS students are advised not to over-enroll in BTI courses (students must take at least one-half of their courses at EDS per semester). Cross-registration petitions are available in the Registrar's office. Each BTI course requires a cross-registration petition, and signatures from the home school registrar and the registrar of the BTI school. The student must obtain the signature of the EDS Registrar before proceeding to the other BTI school's Registrar's office.

Classroom Assignments

Classroom assignments are posted by 4:00 pm the day registration closes. These lists may be found on the bulletin board next to the elevator on the first floor of the library, as well as in the Registrar's office.

EDS and BTI Calendars

For the BTI Calendar, listing of office hours for registrars and dates of registration, etc., see the inside front cover of the BTI catalog. The EDS Academic Calendar for the current academic year is in the back of the EDS catalog.