Graduate School Courses

Students requesting to elect a graduate course should enter the course on their registration worksheet. Most graduate courses, other than those designated as independent study, are open to undergraduate students. Please refer to the University Registrar's Office website for details on which graduate and professional school courses have been approved for Yale College credit. 

Properly qualified undergraduates may enroll in an unlimited number of courses in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences with the permission of the instructor and the director of graduate studies. Undergraduates in these courses are expected to do graduate-level work, and the courses are listed by their graduate numbers on their transcripts.   

NOTE: Many Yale College and Graduate School courses are cross-listed. It is important to note that Yale College students wishing to earn graduate credit, particularly those students working toward a simultaneous undergraduate/graduate degree, must register under the graduate course number and are expected to complete graduate-level coursework.

Course records created in CourseLeaf CIM must exist for both the Yale College and the Graduate School course. They should be linked during the offering process and appear listed together in Yale Course Search. If you have any questions, contact courseleaf@yale.edu.

Professional School courses

Students requesting to elect a professional school course should, whenever the professional school course is listed in YCS, enter the course on their registration worksheet for zero credit, then submit a Request to Enroll in a Yale Professional School Course. The form becomes available once registration starts for a term. Students might not hear whether they are accepted into the course and whether it will count for full credit until the add/drop period. To register for courses in the Law School, see Course Registration, Yale Law School.

Courses in the School of Management (SOM) require their own request form found on the SOM website. If approved, the University Registrar’s Office will award appropriate course credit. Note that there is a limit to the number of professional school courses that an undergraduate may take. See Special Academic Problems under The Committee on Honors and Academic Standing.

For more information see Cross-School Course Registration Processes, on the University Registrar's Office website.