Cross-Registration into HSPH

Cross-Registration permits students enrolled in a degree program at other Harvard Graduate schools, as well as select other local schools which have a cross-registration agreement with Harvard, to take classes at the Harvard Chan School.

Cross-Registration Policies – Visiting Students

• Degree students at the following schools are eligible to cross-register into courses at HSPH:
  • Harvard Graduate Schools (does not include Extension School)
  • MIT
  • Tufts Friedman & Fletcher
  • MGH-IHP 

• In order for students from other schools to cross-register into HSPH courses, the courses must be:
  • Taken for pass/fail or ordinal credit.
    • Auditing a course is NOT permitted unless allowed by home school and Audit is offered as a grading basis for the course. Students would have to enroll/add themselves to the waitlist and select Audit as a the grading basis.
  • Listed as ‘available for cross-registration’ in the Harvard course catalog
  • Offered in Fall, Spring, or WinterSession
    • Cross-registration is NOT allowed during the summer term
  • Not offered jointly with that student’s home school

• Cross-registered students must obtain instructor permission AND add themselves to the waitlist by the ‘last date to enroll – HSPH courses’ deadline.
  • Instructor permission can only be obtained by submitting a petition in my.harvard.
    • Email or verbal approval is NOT a substitute or guarantee of enrollment.
    • Only the course instructor approves petitions, not the HSPH Registrar’s Office. 
  • If a student is not on the waitlist prior to the deadline they CANNOT be enrolled.
  • For WinterSession/J term courses, students cross-registering into HSPH will remain on the waitlist through the last day to add, except for field trip courses. Cross-registrants will be enrolled into field trip courses so they can prepare for travel.

• Cross-registered students stay on the waitlist until after the enrollment deadline.
  • Students will be automatically enrolled from the waitlist on the day after the deadline provided:
    • There is space in the class AND
    • They do not have holds or enrollment errors that restrict enrollment (credit limit, account balance, etc.) AND
    • There are no other barriers to enrollment (time conflict, etc.).
  • The student will receive an email after the deadline with their enrollment status.
• If a student decides they do not want to take a course they should remove themselves from the waitlist BEFORE the HSPH add/drop/change deadline.
  • Failure to do so may result in being automatically enrolled.

• Students are not able to register for courses that create a time conflict.
  • This includes courses that end and start within 1 minute of each other.
  • Course times are based on the dates and times printed in the Harvard course catalog only.
    • We cannot override this based on instructor information.
  • There is occasionally overlap in session dates between Harvard Chan School and other schools.
    • Even if there is an overlap/conflict for only one day, that is still a conflict and we cannot override it.