REGISTRATION
Registration for courses at Baruch College for students abroad is handled as it is for students in residence, online via CUNY First. Inquiries about any difficulties you are having with CUNY First should be addressed to the Registrar’s Office.
If you have completed your Study Abroad Permit as required, there should be nothing pertaining to your study abroad that would delay your registration for the next semester. Please consult the section Study Abroad Permit to make certain that you have fulfilled all requirements. If you are taking abroad the prerequisite for a course you want to register for when you return you must complete and have submitted a Certificate of Attendance. Failure to complete these requirements in a timely fashion could result in your missing your registration date.
Course prerequisites
Students often take courses abroad whose Baruch equivalencies are prerequisites for courses they wish to take when they return. However, because of the delay in processing transcripts from abroad, this information is not available in the CUNY First registration system. Consequently, students who attempt to register for a course may receive an error message stating that they lack a prerequisite. This would happen, for example, if you are currently enrolled in a course at a foreign university that is equivalent to FIN 3000, and wish to register for FIN 3610 for the subsequent semester. Since your credits for FIN 3000 would be entered into CUNY First only after your registration date, you would likely receive an error message if you attempted to register for FIN 3610.
There is, however, a very simple way to deal with this difficulty. If you have been approved to take a course abroad that is a prerequisite for another course, and you need to register for this more advanced course the semester you return, you must notify the Study Abroad Office as far in advance of your registration date as possible. We will contact the appropriate department chair to grant you permission provisionally to enroll in the more advanced course.
PLEASE NOTE: The permission to enroll in the more advanced course is provisional, and is conditional upon your receiving a passing grade for the (prerequisite) course taken abroad. Should you not receive credit for the course taken abroad once the transcript has been processed, the provisional permission to enroll in the advanced course will be rescinded and it will be dropped from your schedule.
Study abroad Extension
If you decide while you are studying abroad that you wish to extend your time abroad into the next semester, please follow these simple instructions:
If you wish to continue studying on the same Study Abroad Program or at the same university, you must submit your request to extend your stay in writing to the Director of Study Abroad, along with a statement explaining your request, by the deadline for students’ Application to Study Abroad (October 1 for January Intersession and Spring Semester; March 15 for the Summer and Fall Terms). You should receive a decision on your request within three weeks.
If you wish to study abroad at a different location or on a different Study Abroad Program, you must submit online a new Application Study Abroad for the new destination and/or program. You must meet the same application deadline as students in-residence applying to study abroad that semester.
In either case, you are responsible for obtaining your Study Abroad Permit before the next semester begins for any courses you wish to take during that semester, or, if necessary, for applying for a Conditional Study Abroad Permit. Please keep in close contact with the Study Abroad Office, as we can help you deal with aspects of the Study Abroad Permit application process that are difficult to do from abroad.
If you have already registered for courses at Baruch for the following semester, and in the meantime have received approval to extend your study abroad, you must drop all your courses in order for the Study Abroad Office to process your Study Abroad Permit application.