- 1. When will registration take place?
The opening of registration for Spring 2025 will occur on a staggered-start schedule, beginning with Seniors on Tuesday, October 29. Once the time slot during which you are able to first register arrives, you may immediately register for classes within SalukiNet Self-Service if you do not have any holds in place that would prevent you from registering.1
Please note that most students will be unable to use the registration system during the day on Monday, October 28. This is in preparation for the opening of Spring 2025 registration. It means that most students will not be able to make registration changes to their late-starting Fall 2024 classes during that day – because they will appear to have a "Registration is not open" type of temporary hold that is only for that one day – but they should be able to make such changes again by that evening (or, at the very latest, by that midnight).
A small portion of students will be able to use the registration system on that Monday during the period of 8:15 AM to 6:00 PM Central Time. This portion of students will include at least veterans and active duty military students, student athletes, UHP students, Chancellor Scholars, and Law Honors students. Most other students will have the temporary hold in effect during that time to prevent their use of the system.
- 2. Am I supposed to do my own registration?
Yes, undergraduate, graduate, and Law students are expected to register themselves through the SalukiNet portal, logging into SalukiNet with their Network ID. (Medical students will be registered by staff in the School of Medicine.)
The self-registration system will normally permit adding of full-term classes through the end of the first week of classes. (Classes that are shorter than full-term will normally need to be added by the first day of the class.) If circumstances prevent you from meeting the deadline to self-register, you will need to see your advisor and complete paperwork for your registration, and you may incur a late registration charge.
Your advisor does not have the computer access to register you into your classes. While they, for example, can watch you as you register yourself in their office – and assist you if needed – please do not ever give them your Network ID and password, because that would give them access to too much personal information about you (not all of which they have the right or authority to access).
If you are being pressured to give your Network ID and password to anyone, please contact the SalukiTech Help Desk or the Registrar's Office.
- 3. What is a "RUN" number?
Some students who self-register are required to use a 6-digit Registration User Number (RUN) during at least their initial self-registration. The SalukiNet self-registration process will prompt for any required RUN.
If you are required to have a RUN for the upcoming term, you should get it when you meet with your advisor to plan your upcoming courses. The RUN is unique to each student and to each term. If you have questions about your RUN or forget it, please ask your advisor.
Once most undergraduates who require a RUN successfully register for a term for the first time, if they return on a subsequent day to do registration changes for that term, they should no longer need to use a RUN for that term.
More information about RUNs – and which students require them – is here.
- 4. What about the holds that were mentioned above?
Your ability to register could be impacted by holds. While in SalukiNet Self-Service, you can check for any current holds under the Student | Student Records menu.
For all students, outstanding financial obligations to SIU beyond $1,500 may result in a hold that prevents registration, as may failing to comply with Illinois immunization requirements. The same is true for students who have not completed certain federally-mandated training, as well as for undergraduate students currently in their first full semester at SIU – or back at SIU – who have not submitted final transcripts from their previous institution(s).
Since holds may be placed on your record by various offices at any time – especially on the day before the opening of registration – you will want to monitor SalukiNet Self-Service to make sure that you are not surprised by any new non-temporary holds when you attempt to register. (Your SalukiNet Must Do List will warn you of newly-activated registration holds.) And if you think that you may be at risk for getting any holds that will impact your ability to register, please check with your advisor to see if that is true.
Remember that if you are currently registered for this term's classes, any holds that will prevent you from registering for future term classes will also prevent you from making registration changes to your current term classes (including dropping or withdrawing from them).
If any holds that you see in SalukiNet Self-Service are not accompanied by details (or contact information) about how to fulfill them, more information about most holds is available here.1
- 5. Do I have to worry about course prerequisites?
The SalukiNet Self-Service registration system enforces course prerequisites and corequisites. If you have not satisfied the prerequisite(s) for a desired course as outlined in the appropriate Undergraduate Catalog, Graduate Catalog, or School of Law Course Catalog – or you are not currently enrolled in a prerequisite course – and if your advisor has not otherwise entered an override permitting you to enroll in the desired course, you will be prevented from registering for that course. If that happens to you, there will be an error message that says, "Prerequisite and Test Score error."
Similarly, if a desired course has a corequisite course that you need to be enrolled in during the same term, you will need to register for both courses at the same time, or you will be prevented from registering for either one (unless your advisor has entered an override permitting you to do so). If you run into this problem, there will be an error message that likely also says, "Prerequisite and Test Score error" (which seems like an unfortunate choice of wording when such an error should really say, "Corequisite required").
- 6. Can I look at available classes now, before seeing my advisor?
The Schedule of Classes page contains a searchable database of class sections that you would utilize to look for available class sections.
If the upcoming term is available for you to select, then you should be able to look at what classes are available. If the upcoming term is not yet available for you to select, then the Schedule of Classes for that term has not yet been published, and you will have to wait until it is published.
Please realize, though, that even after the Schedule of Classes is published, as we get closer to the opening of registration – and even beyond that – changes to these courses may happen (such as when they meet), some of these courses may be canceled, and other courses may be added, so you will want to check regularly to see what is available.
If you have any questions about the particular courses for which you should register, or if you have concerns about meeting the appropriate prerequisites, please check with your advisor.
If you have never registered before, or if you simply need a basic reminder of how our online self-registration works, we have a set of instructions that should help.
- 7. What about Math Placement?
Undergraduate students must complete one or more Math courses to receive a degree. We encourage you to get your Math courses completed as soon as possible, preferably starting in your first term at SIU.
If you are an incoming undergraduate student coming straight out of high school, there is a Math Placement exam process that you will need to go through in order to be placed in the appropriate Math course. Information about this process is available from the Math department. You are encouraged to complete this process before you attend New Student Orientation.
If you are an incoming undergraduate student transferring from a community college or another four-year school, you may also need to go through the Math Placement exam process (if you have not completed an appropriate college-level Math course at your previous institution). Check with the Math department or your advisor to determine what you need to do. Again, you are encouraged to complete this process before you attend New Student Orientation.
If you are currently an SIU student but have not yet completed a Math course and are not in a Math course right now, please check with the Math department to find out what you should do.
- 8. If it turns out that a class is full, can I get on a waitlist for it?
For those who are not familiar with the concept, to get on a waitlist allows you to be in line for a spot in a currently-closed class should an opening occur in the future (due to, for example, someone else dropping the class). Such a system allows you to not have to log in frequently and check for any sudden openings in the class, so it can be a very helpful tool. (Of course, there's no guarantee that an opening will occur in the future, or that enough openings will occur in the future to benefit all students on the waitlist.)
Waitlisting is available for courses in a number of schools and departments. Schools and departments are not required to offer waitlisting on their courses, and those that do may offer waitlisting on only a portion of their courses.
More details about waitlisting are here. In the meantime, if you wish to waitlist a class, you will need to have a current @siu.edu e-mail address in order to receive notifications if and when an opening in the class is made available to you (when you are at the top of the waitlist). If you do not have such an e-mail address right now, you can return to the Network ID Management System after you have registered for the first time and claim the e-mail address that will have been assigned to you.
- 9. Is there anything else to be concerned about at this time?
While you are preparing for registration, we encourage you to log into SalukiNet self-service and take time to verify and/or update your contact information (address, email, phone, etc.) as necessary. You can do so from the "Update Your Contact Information" task which will direct you to your Personal Information page. While there, we also encourage you to fill out your "emergency contact" information as well.
For those of you who have not yet obtained your SIU e-mail address, that is something that you really need to do, and you can do so by logging into the Network ID Management System (though brand new students will have to wait until after the first time they register before they can obtain their SIU e-mail address).
- 10. How will I later be billed for my registration?
