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Before registering for any engineering classes, each student must apply as a degree or certificate candidate, or as a special student, and must submit appropriate application materials for review. Application procedures are found in the Admission Requirements  section. Applications are accepted on a continuing basis.

Payment of tuition is due at the specified deadline listed in the academic calendar. Payment may be made by check, credit card, tuition remission, or company contract accompanied by purchase order. We will not defer payment for companies that provide tuition reimbursement at the end of the term. In this instance, students must pay tuition themselves and be reimbursed by their employer. If payment is not made by the deadline date, a late payment fee of $125 will be incurred.

If you have registered and have not paid your balance, an email statement will be sent to you on the 16th of each month with the balance due the University. This is not a bill. This is a reminder of the debt owed to the University and is a reflection of your account status at the time of the email. Changes in circumstances may have an effect on the amount that you are responsible to pay, for instance, adding or dropping courses, late registration, or late payment fees.

Students are not permitted to register if there are unpaid bills from a previous term.

The JHU-EP course schedule, which lists the day, time, location, and instructor for each course, is available on the web at www.ep.jhu.edu prior to each registration period. All students who have been enrolled in courses during the previous year will receive notification of the web posting of the course schedule. All relevant registration forms and deadlines can be found on the JHU-EP website.

All Whiting School of Engineering courses are numbered in the form 605.402, where

605 indicates the program- in this example, Computer Science,
402 indicates the course number-in this example, Software Analysis and Design

Courses with a zero before the first decimal point-e.g. 600.439-are daytime offerings of the Whiting School departments.

Courses numbered xxx.1xx, xxx.2xx, and xxx.3xx are undergraduate level and will not count for graduate credit.

Credit hours are not assigned for graduate level courses (400-level and above).

Web Registration

Advance registration takes place three times a year: prior to the fall semester, the spring semester, and the summer term.

All students are encouraged to use web registration. Web registration is available by logging onto the JHU-EP website (www.ep.jhu.edu) and following the registration link. Students must establish a JHED account in order to use web registration; instructions are available on the opening page.

Registering for Online Courses

Initial contact and instructions for online courses will be delivered via email prior to the first day of classes each term. Therefore, it is the responsibility of students registering for online courses to supply a current and active email address and an alternate contact method, such as work and/or home phone numbers, on the registration form for each term.

Students may register after the beginning of a term if necessary. However, students enrolling in their first JHU-EP online course must be registered no later than a week and a half prior to the first day of classes in order to attend a mandatory online orientation prior to the start of the term. The deadline for adding online courses is a week after the first day of classes each term, which is earlier than the deadline for conventional classes. See the Registration Deadlines section of the Facilities and Student Services page for a detailed description of the orientation and student participation requirements. Although there is no fee for late registration, students who delay registering until these times may find course selection severely restricted. Late registrations may be faxed to 410-579-8049.

An applicant who has not received an admission decision prior to the start of the semester must attend an advising session. Dates of advising sessions are listed on the academic calendar. Advising sessions are scheduled just prior to the start of each semester to give applicants the opportunity to meet with an adviser to discuss the applicant’s qualifications for the program. Depending upon prior coursework taken, the applicant may be approved to register for a class before a formal offer of admission is received. If the student is subsequently accepted to a degree or certificate program, the program committee will determine whether courses taken prior to admission may be counted in fulfillment of degree requirements. Please note that approval to take a course prior to receipt of an admission decision does not guarantee acceptance into the program. Students who have been granted approval to take a course before receiving an admissions decision must adhere to the published refund schedule. Refund exceptions will not be granted if the student is denied admission to the program.

With approval of their advisers, students may take courses in the full-time programs of the Whiting School or in other divisions of the University. Registration for these classes should be submitted on the JHU-EP registration form. Please note that tuition rates vary by division.

Students in other divisions of Johns Hopkins may register for courses in JHU-EP, subject to the regulations of their home divisions and availability of space. The form requesting registration is available at http://www.ep.jhu.edu/student-forms.

In order to foster high-quality faculty-student interaction, all courses have enrollment limits. Although every effort is made to offer additional sections of oversubscribed courses, this is not always possible.

Students may ask to be placed on waiting lists if their desired courses are filled or they may indicate alternate course selections.

The University reserves the right to change instructors or to cancel any course with insufficient enrollment or for reasons beyond the control of the University.

Students who are employed full-time are strongly urged to limit their course load to no more than two per term.

Students may register as auditors with the approval of the appropriate program adviser. Although regular attendance is expected of auditors, they are exempt from quizzes, examinations, and other assigned work, and they receive no credit for the course. Students who are enrolled for credit but wish to become auditors must submit the “add/drop” form before the deadline listed for each term in the Academic and Registration Calendar. There is no reduction in fees when auditing a course.

Courses may be added or dropped online or by submitting the “add/drop” form available at  http://ep.jhu.edu/student-forms and at the instructional sites. Deadlines for completing this procedure are given in the Academic and Registration Calendar. Notification to the instructor does not constitute dropping a course. Students who stop attending a course without completing and submitting the drop form will receive an F grade. The refund policy pertaining to dropped courses is described on the Tuition and Fees page.

For textbook information, visit www.ep.jhu.edu/textbooks.