Spring 2026 Course Registration
Students will register for their spring 2026 courses via MyBU Student (https://student.bu.edu/MyBU/).
Spring 2026 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 our COM undergraduates. Please read and note the dates carefully.
Registration appointment times are determined by the University Registrar and will be 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 get shut out of important courses as they reach enrollment capacity.
Seniors
Friday, October 31 – Registration opens via MyBU Student. Seniors will have a registration appointment time, selected via last digit of your BU ID number, starting as early as 6:30 a.m. COM majors, CGS students, and students with an official declared COM minor have access to register for COM courses via MyBU Student.
Juniors
Friday, November 7 – Registration opens via MyBU Student. Juniors will have a registration appointment time, selected via last digit of your BU ID number, starting as early as 6:30 a.m. COM majors, CGS students, and students with an official declared COM minor have access to register for COM courses via MyBU Student.
Sophomores
Friday, November 14 – Registration opens via MyBU Student. Sophomores will have a registration appointment time, selected via last digit of your BU ID number, starting as early as 6:30 a.m. COM majors, CGS students, and students with an official declared COM minor have access to register for COM courses via MyBU Student.
First-Year Students
Friday, November 21 – Registration opens via MyBU Student. First-year students will have a registration appointment time, selected via last digit of your BU ID number, starting as early as 6:30 a.m. COM majors and CGS students have access to register for COM courses via MyBU Student.
Note: For the small number of students with an officially registered Boston University course at 8 a.m. on Friday during the Fall 2025 term that conflicts with their assigned registration appointment, the Office of the University Registrar (OUR) will assign an earlier appointment time (prior to 8 a.m.) to allow registration before the start of their class.
Non-COM Students Without an Official Declared COM Minor Who Are Seeking COM Courses for Spring 2026
A select number of COM courses will be open to you at your assigned registration appointment time. Those COM courses that will be open 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 JO 150, COM JO 200, and COM JO 205. Students must meet any course pre-requisites.
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 the course COM CO 101 with a grade of a C or better. COM CO 101 for the spring 2026 term will be available to students at their assigned registration appointment time.
Thursday, November 20 (at midnight as Wednesday, November 19 becomes Thursday, November 20) – 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 and will not register for spring 2026 courses until December 2025/January 2026. 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 and 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 will need to formally declare a minor through their home school or college. Students MUST first complete a pre-requisite course to be eligible to formally declare any COM minor. If you have not already completed the course pre-requisite with the minimum grade, you are not eligible to formally declare a COM minor.
The pre-requisite to declare the Advertising, Public Relations, Media Science, or Journalism minor is successful completion of COM CO 201 with a grade of a C or better.
The pre-requisite to declare the Film and Television minor is successful completion of COM FT 201 with a grade of a C or better.
Academic Advising Appointments
It is REQUIRED that all COM students MUST meet with a COM Undergraduate Affairs academic advisor at least one time 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 2026 courses.
Students can schedule advising appointments with the COM Undergraduate Affairs directly through MyBU Student. We offer in-person or Zoom meetings.
Due to the number of academic advising appointment requests, we strongly encourage you to plan early and set an advising appointment as soon as possible to discuss your registration and other plans. As we approach the spring 2026 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 be sure you are referencing the correct guides based on your entry method and date to Boston University.
Spring 2026 Registration Information
To ADD/DROP or CHANGE SECTIONS a student must use MyBU Student and you may only do so on a space available basis (for adding or changing a section).
If a COM course is at capacity, COM Undergraduate Affairs, our advisors, and the COM professor of record for the course cannot add students over the limits enforced via MyBU Student.
If a COM course is full, your best course of action is to keep an eye on 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 department offering the COM course to see if there is any waitlist or course demand list that they can be added onto. 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 fall registration.
Enrollment Status
All COM undergraduates (except for some students enrolled in their final term before graduating) are expected to be enrolled as full-time students (12 or more units in a term). The normal academic load in COM is four courses (16 units). Students may take up to 18 units (credits) without incurring extra charges. For more than 18 units (credits), please refer to the Overload Up to 20 Units Fee Waiver Information Form on our COM Undergraduate Affairs forms page. COM undergraduate students cannot take more than 20 units in any fall or spring term.
Any final term student graduating in May 2026 who plans to be part-time in the spring 2026 term (fewer than 12 units in a term) must be registered in the final courses they need to graduate in May 2026 and then must contact comugrad@bu.edu to request their status to be changed to part-time. Any international students planning to be part-time in their final term before finishing their degree must also clear this with ISSO.
In extremely rare cases, COM undergraduates who are not in their final term are allowed to be in part-time (take fewer than 12 units) in a fall or spring term. This is not allowed for international students who are studying in the United States. Undergraduate COM students in this situation wishing to be part-time must submit a petition to COM Undergraduate Affairs (comugrad@bu.edu) in an effort to request part-time status. The Petition Form and instruction on the process are on our COM Undergraduate Affairs forms page.
Please keep in mind that students have a maximum of seven (7) years in which to complete their degree.
If you have a question or would like to make an appointment with a COM Undergraduate Affairs academic advisor please do so via your MyBU Student portal. Quicker questions that do not require a full advising appointment can be sent to 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 2026
COM incoming first-year students accepted to Boston University for the first time for a January 2026 start date will be contacted via email at a later date about the spring 2026 registration process.
COM incoming transfer students who will be joining Boston University from an outside (non-BU) college or university for the first time for January 2026 will be contacted at a later date about the spring 2026 registration process.
New COM first-year and COM transfer students will need to have their spring schedule approved by a COM Undergraduate Affairs academic advisor prior to them registering for spring term courses. COM Undergraduate Affairs will be in touch with information on this process in December 2025/January 2026 as we learn about the students who have paid a deposit to join us as new first-years or external transfer students to BU from BU Admissions.
All incoming BU students starting at BU for the first time in January should be sure to sign up for Boston University orientation. Information regarding Boston University Orientation is online here.