Registration

Get ready to register

Set up your BU Web Login and email account. If you have not already set up your BU Web Login username and Kerberos password, you must do this first.
DO NOT FORGET your Kerberos password. If you need help with this, click here.

Additionally, Boston University requires that you are “compliant” before you can register for classes.  This means that you have:

  • added an Emergency Alert phone number to your student record
  • paid your bill
  • submitted proof of immunization

To check your “Compliance Status,” please log on to the MyBU Student Portal, click on ‘Personal’ then ‘Compliance Status’, and follow the instructions.

Choose your courses

Courses: In your first semester at Boston University, Questrom transfer students will take five or six courses, either 16 or 20 credits.  A student is considered to be enrolled full time in a semester when the student has registered for 12–18 credits. Although you can enroll in up to 20 credits your first semester, the UDC does not recommend this. If you plan to take 6 courses, please discuss your plans with Deanna or your assigned academic advisor.  PLEASE NOTE during your first semester you will enroll in SM131 and SM132 as cohorted experiences.  Additionally you will register for ES 215, Calculus, the writing seminar, and/or Micro or Macroeconomics if you are not transferring these credits in.

  • QST SM131 and SM132: SM131 Business, Ethics, and the Creation of Value and SM132 Measuring Financial Value are required for all new transfer students and are prerequisites for all other Questrom courses. Please be sure to review important minimum grade requirement information. You must register for the lecture for SM131:  QST SM131 A3. You then should register for one of the following paired SM131 discussion/SM132 sections:
    • SM131 E2 & SM132 B5
    • SM131 E3 & SM132 C4
    • SM131 E4 & SM132 D5
    • If your preferred section pairing is full, please choose another section that works. If no other pairing works, fill out a Waitlist Request Form. If you have an athletic/medical/religious/work reason why you cannot be in any paired section, contact Deanna immediately.
  • QST ES215: Executive Skills Seminar.  This is the first of two executive skills seminars you will take as a Questrom students.  It is a 2-credit course you must take during your first semester in Questrom.
  • CAS MA 121 or CAS MA 123: if you do not have calculus credit you must take either CAS MA 121 or CAS MA 123 as calculus is a prerequisite for many of the Questrom courses.  We recommend Questrom students take CAS MA121, which is calculus for non-math majors. If you intend to continue on with upper level math for a potential minor, then you will want to take CAS MA123.
  • Writing Seminar (if necessary): All students are required to take the writing seminar CAS WR120. If you have previous composition coursework please send your syllabi to the Registrar’s Office to as soon as possible as you may place out of the Writing course requirements, allowing you to take an additional elective. If you received transfer credit for WR13TR or WR16TR, this fulfills the CAS WR120 requirement for Questrom.
  • 1-3 additional courses: This will vary based on your transfer credits.  For example, you may take microeconomics (CAS EC101), macroeconomics (CAS EC102), or courses to fulfill Hub requirements, depending on your transfer credit.  You should focus on the highlighted Hub requirements and you can search for HUB courses on MyBU Student under Class Search and selecting Hub Requirements under “Course Attributes” and then the relevant HUB requirement title under “Course Attribute Value” and opening the “additional options” to select HUB units to search by. You will NOT receive any HUB units from courses taken at your previous institution. You can only receive HUB units from courses taken at BU or from an AP/IB test.
  • Optional First Year Experience Course: FY101 is an OPTIONAL course that serves as an introduction to BU, Boston, and BU resources. It’s a great way to get to know the school and meet fellow transfer students across the university. Learn more here and, if you are interested in adding the course, search for HUBFY 101 and choose a transfer section that fits with your schedule.

If you took the AP/IB test for calculus, microeconomics, or macroeconomics, ensure that you have meet BU’s score requirements to transfer these courses (ex:  you must have receive a 4 or better on the AP test to transfer in these credits).

Summary of your first semester courses:
QST SM131 (4 cr) & QST SM132 (2 cr) paired courses
QST ES215 (2 cr)
Econ/Calculus/Writing/HUB (4 cr)
Econ/Calculus/Writing/HUB (4 cr)
HUB (4 cr – speak with an advisor if adding a 6th course)

Schedule Builder & Shopping Cart

  • Before you arrive at Orientation, you should know which courses you need to take in your first semester. You can arrange your schedule in your Shopping Cart or Schedule Builder, and/or Register for those courses from those same sections as well. We will be helping with any questions/comments/concerns at Orientation. Transfer Students register through the MyBU Student Portal at 9 am ET on June 13, 2024. Both Shopping Cart and Schedule Builder allow you to plan your courses in advance. This means nothing in them is permanent until you actually press the “enroll” button on June 13.  Even after you register, you can still change things around, so do not feel nervous about playing around with your course selections. You cannot do anything bad, or mess anything up, but you can get a jump start on the registration process, and be better prepared when you arrive at Orientation.

Searching for Courses

You can now begin to search for courses to put into your Planner. A few important points to remember:

    • All courses at Boston University have a College, Department, Course, and Section assigned to them. For example, as a Questrom School of Business transfer student, you are required to take QSTSM 131, QSTSM 132, and QSTES 215 .
      • Some courses have a lecture and a discussion component, and you will need to add both to your Planner.
      • Other courses have only one section (“Independent”) so you will only need to add one section to your Planner.
    • When you are searching for courses, please pay attention to the instructions within the course listings.
      • If it says you need to register for a lecture and discussion, and it also notes that the sections must match, not only do you need to sign up for both a lecture and a discussion component, you need to follow the matching rule.  That means, if you put a lecture into your planner that is section AA or A1, you need to find a discussion that also begins with the letter A_.  Please note that the Questrom School of Business course lecture and discussion letters do not match, but this will not be typical of other courses.
    • You can click on the course listing to open up more details on the course, including pre-requisites and what HUB requirements the course fulfills
    • Make sure you have enough time to get from one class to the next. The course listing will tell you where the class is held and you can use your preferred mapping site to plan everything out. BU is a long campus and it can take 15-20 minutes to walk from West Campus to East Campus

Finalize your registration

On June 13 at 9 am ET, the “Enroll” feature within Schedule Builder and Shopping Cart will go live. Select your courses, press enroll, and then you’re done. You can make adjustments to your schedule throughout the summer and during the Add period at the start of the semester.

Once enrolled, you can see your classes under Class Listing and can view them as a graph or a list view.

How-to video

If you’d like to watch a video that talks about what classes you need, how to search for HUB classes, how to see if seats are available, and so on, you can watch a video at this link .