Spring 2027 Course Registration

Students will register for their spring 2027 courses via MyBU Student (https://student.bu.edu/MyBU/).

Spring 2027 Term COM Registration Calendar

At your registration appointment time, we encourage all undergraduate students to register for a full course load for the spring term. Full-time students generally take 16 units each term. Students enrolled in the College of General Studies (CGS) have the same registration access as COM undergraduates. Please read and note the dates carefully.

Registration appointment times are determined by the University Registrar and are based on a student’s academic level (class year) and the last digit of their Boston University ID number. That information will be posted on the Boston University Registrar’s website at https://www.bu.edu/reg/calendars/registration/.

It is extremely important that students register at their assigned registration appointment date and time. If you do not register at your assigned time, you may be shut out of important courses as they reach enrollment capacity.

Students must meet all course prerequisites to be eligible to enroll in a course.

Seniors

Friday, October 30 – Registration opens via MyBU Student. Seniors will have a registration appointment time, selected via the last digit of your BU ID number, starting as early as 6:20 a.m.

Juniors

Friday, November 6 – Registration opens via MyBU Student. Juniors will have a registration appointment time, selected via the last digit of your BU ID number, starting as early as 6:20 a.m.

Sophomores

Friday, November 13 – Registration opens via MyBU Student. Sophomores will have a registration appointment time, selected via the last digit of your BU ID number, starting as early as 6:20 a.m.

First-Year Students

Friday, November 20 – Registration opens via MyBU Student. First-year students will have a registration appointment time, selected via the last digit of your BU ID number, starting as early as 6:20 a.m.

Non-COM Students Without an Official Declared COM Minor Who Are Seeking COM Courses for Spring 2027

A select number of COM courses will be open to you at your assigned registration appointment time. Those COM courses available to you (provided seats remain) include: COM CO 101, COM CO 201, COM CO 305, COM CO 532, COM CM 180, COM CM 215, COM CM 217, COM CM 331, COM FT 201, COM FT 250, COM FT 303, COM FT 310, COM FT 353, COM JO 150, COM JO 200, and COM JO 205. Students must meet all course prerequisites.

Other COM courses will not be open to you at your assigned registration time. At your registration appointment time, we encourage all students to register for a full course load. Full-time students generally take 16 units each term.

Students seeking an Intra University Transfer (IUT) into the College of Communication must first complete COM CO 101 with a grade of C or better. COM CO 101 for the spring 2027 term will be available to students at their assigned registration appointment time.

Thursday, November 19 (at midnight as Wednesday, November 18 becomes Thursday, November 19) – Non-COM majors and students without a formally declared COM minor will be eligible to register for most other COM undergraduate courses provided seats remain available. Students will register via MyBU Student.

Please keep in mind that some seats in COM courses will be reserved for COM students who will be joining BU as external transfer students via BU Admissions. Those students are not admitted to BU until later in the fall or winter and will not register for spring 2027 courses until December or January. As a result, we need to reserve seats in COM courses for them.

COM Minor Information

The College of Communication offers five different minors:

Advertising

Public Relations

Media Science

Journalism

Film & Television

Requirements for our COM minors can be found toward the bottom of our Curriculum Guides & Minors webpage or in the COM portion of the BU Bulletin.

Non-COM students must formally declare a minor through their home school or college. To be eligible to formally declare any COM minor, students must first complete the prerequisite course with the minimum grade required.

The prerequisite to declare the Advertising, Public Relations, Media Science, or Journalism minor is successful completion of COM CO 201 with a grade of C or better.

The prerequisite to declare the Film and Television minor is successful completion of COM FT 201 with a grade of C or better.

Academic Advising Appointments

All COM students are required to meet with a COM Undergraduate Affairs academic advisor at least once each term prior to their assigned registration date. If you do not meet with a COM advisor prior to your registration appointment time, you will not be able to register for spring 2027 courses.

Students can schedule advising appointments with COM Undergraduate Affairs directly through MyBU Student. We offer in-person or Zoom meetings.

Due to the volume of academic advising appointment requests, we strongly encourage you to plan early and schedule an advising appointment as soon as possible to discuss your registration and other plans. As we approach the spring 2027 registration dates, we anticipate our available appointments reaching capacity.

COM curriculum guides are available on our Curriculum Guides and Minors page for your reference. Please ensure you are referencing the correct guides based on your entry method to Boston University.

Spring 2027 Registration Information

To add, drop, or change sections, students must use MyBU Student on a space-available basis (for adding or changing a section).

If a COM course is at capacity, COM Undergraduate Affairs advisors and the COM professor of record for the course cannot add students beyond the enrollment limits enforced via MyBU Student.

If a COM course is full, your best option is to monitor MyBU Student to see if a seat becomes available as another student drops the class or switches sections. We also encourage students to reach out to the department offering the COM course to ask about waitlist or course demand options. The Film and Television Department (COM FT) can be reached at filmtv@bu.edu. The Mass Communication, Advertising and Public Relations Department (COM CM) can be reached at mcadvpr@bu.edu. The Journalism Department (COM JO) can be reached at jodept@bu.edu. The COM Core division (COM CO) can be reached at comcore@bu.edu.

KHC students are encouraged to meet with a KHC advisor as well as an advisor in COM Undergraduate Affairs prior to spring registration.

Enrollment Status

All COM undergraduates (except for some students in their final term before graduating) are expected to be enrolled as full-time students (12 or more units per term). The normal academic load in COM is four courses (16 units). COM undergraduate students cannot take more than 20 units in any fall or spring term.

Any final-term student graduating in May 2027 who plans to be part-time in spring 2027 (fewer than 12 units per term) must register for the final courses needed to graduate in May 2027 and then contact comugrad@bu.edu to request a change to part-time status. Any international students planning to be part-time in their final term must also clear this with ISSO.

In extremely rare cases, COM undergraduates not in their final term may be allowed to be part-time (take fewer than 12 units) in a fall or spring term. This is not permitted for international students studying in the United States. Undergraduate COM students in this situation who wish to be part-time must submit a petition to COM Undergraduate Affairs (comugrad@bu.edu) to request part-time status. The Petition Form and instructions for the process are available on our COM Undergraduate Affairs forms page.

Please keep in mind that students have a maximum of seven (7) years to complete their degree.

If you have questions or would like to schedule an appointment with a COM Undergraduate Affairs academic advisor, please do so via your MyBU Student portal. For quicker questions that do not require a full advising appointment, you can email us at comugrad@bu.edu. Please be sure to include your name and BU ID number with your correspondence.

New COM Students Starting at Boston University in January 2027

COM incoming first-year students accepted to Boston University for the first time for a January 2027 start date will be contacted via email at a later date about the spring 2027 registration process.

COM incoming transfer students from an outside (non-BU) college or university starting at Boston University for the first time in January 2027 will be contacted at a later date about the spring 2027 registration process.

New COM first-year and COM transfer students must have their spring schedule approved by a COM Undergraduate Affairs academic advisor prior to registering for spring term courses. COM Undergraduate Affairs will be in touch with information on this process in December 2026 or January 2027 as we receive notification from BU Admissions about new first-year and external transfer students who have paid a deposit to join us.

All incoming BU students starting at BU for the first time in January should sign up for Boston University orientation. Information regarding Boston University Orientation is available online here.