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  • Registration & Leaves

    As a student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, you are required to register every term, including when you are working on your dissertation. Registration entitles you to attend classes, receive financial aid, and use the libraries, laboratories, and other facilities of the university. You need to register, even if you are not in residence.

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  1. Yale Course Search

    Yale Course Search is an online course catalogue, where you will find current and past listings of Graduate School courses across our departments and programs.

    • Registration & Leaves
    • Information
  2. Dissertation Completion Status

    If you are a PhD candidate who wishes to remain registered after using your available extended registration and/or would like to undertake full-time employment, you can do so by electing Dissertation Completion Status.

    • Registration & Leaves
    • Information
  3. Dissertation Submission and Degree Completion Timeline

    • Advising & Mentoring
    • PhD Stipend & Funding
    • Professional Development & Career Strategy
    • Registration & Leaves
    • Information
  4. Extended Registration Beyond Year 6

    Registration beyond year 6 is not automatic and must be approved. Special registration is required to request extended registration into year 7 or–in extremely rare circumstances–year 8.

    • Registration & Leaves
    • Information
  5. GSAS Dean's Office

    The Graduate School’s Dean’s Office provides centralized support for GSAS students and faculty, as well as its many academic, pre-professional, social, and cultural programs. The office sets and administers Graduate School policy, stewards and distributes university resources, advocates for the needs of graduate students, and provides leadership to advance the mission and strategic direction of GSAS.

    • Advising & Mentoring
    • Health & Wellness
    • International Students
    • PhD Stipend & Funding
    • Professional Development & Career Strategy
    • Registration & Leaves
    • Resources for Support
    • Student Life & Community
    • Teaching
    • Office
  6. In Absentia Registration

    You should register in absentia if you are a PhD student who will be living outside the New Haven area in order to conduct full-time dissertation research, full-time field work, or full-time study at another academic institution.

    • Registration & Leaves
    • Information
  7. Non-Cumulative Registration

    Non-cumulative registration allows you to pause your academic clock in order to acquire an academic or methodological skill that is essential for your degree requirements or dissertation research.

    • Registration & Leaves
    • Information
  8. Student Accessibility Services (SAS)

    Student Accessibility Services (SAS) works with Yale students with acute or ongoing disabilities to provide appropriate accommodations, auxiliary aids, and services through an interactive process. The Graduate School's liaison in SAS is Jordan Colbert.

    • Health & Wellness
    • Registration & Leaves
    • Resources for Support
    • Student Life & Community
    • Office
  9. Transcript Requests

    Transcripts may be ordered online through the University Registrar's Office.

    • International Students
    • Master's Funding
    • PhD Stipend & Funding
    • Registration & Leaves
    • Information
  10. Withdrawing from the Graduate School

    For a variety of reasons, you may wish to withdraw in good standing before completing your degree program.

    • Registration & Leaves
    • Information