Academic advisors assist students in planning their educational careers, in learning the skills needed for academic success and in learning how to access the variety of resources and services available to them on campus. Students are required to meet regularly with their academic advisor regarding program requirements, opportunities for scholarships, undergraduate research and future employment.
Depending on your academic level and major, you are assigned a freshman advisor or a faculty and professional advising team. To find your academic advisor, log on to your myUK account, select “Student Services” from the top of the screen, and then “Degree Planning and Registration (myUKGPS).” Your advisor is listed on the upper right-hand side of the screen under “My Advisor.”
To schedule an academic advising appointment, use the myGPS scheduler or contact your advisor via email or phone, or just stop by their office.
Meet with your academic advisor to have your advisor hold lifted. You must have this hold lifted before you can register (non-degree students do not have an advisor hold).
Check your account for any stops or holds. To do this, log on to your myUK account, select “myInfo” from the top of the screen, and then “my Stops and Holds” from the menu on the left. You must resolve any stops or holds before you can register.Newly Admitted Undergraduate Students
Currently Enrolled Undergraduate Students
Please consult the Academic Calendar for important dates and deadlines. Please mark your personal calendar so these deadlines are not missed!
The Degree Planning and Registration Application (myUKGPS) is an integrated system that helps students do both short and long-term planning, register for courses for the current term and view their progress to make sure they are staying on track to get their degree on time. View instructions on how to use myUKGPS.
There are two levels of admission for every engineering major:
First Level: “Pre-Engineering”
Includes all students accepted to the College of Engineering and continues until selected pre-major courses are completed.
Second Level: “Engineering Standing”
Students who have achieved a minimum 2.5 GPA in select major courses and a minimum 2.5 cumulative GPA. This status allows enrollment in upper-division engineering courses.
Each major in the College of Engineering has a specific departmental GPA (currently a 2.5 or higher) and grade requirements for engineering standing. Requirements may include courses counted in the first three semesters, repeat options allowed, number of applications for engineering standing allowed, restrictions on taking upper-level courses, minimum course grades, etc.
The same criteria are applied to transfer students with the equivalence of courses determined by the Director of Undergraduate Studies for each major.
A hold on an account indicates that a student owes money or must complete a process with a particular office prior to registration or add/drop activity. Holds must be removed from a student's account before registering for classes or receiving a transcript. A student may check whether or not they have a hold by calling the appropriate department in which the stop was placed.
You may cancel your registration before the first day of class by using myUK. See below for dropping a class with a W grade.
All students, including degree-seeking, non-degree seeking and visiting students, who wish to leave the university during a term (fall, spring, summer or winter) must formally withdraw.
There are five methods of withdrawing from the University of Kentucky:
November 14, 2026 is the last day students may withdraw from a Fall 2026 course using the steps listed under "How do I withdraw from a course?". As of November 15th, they will need to petition for withdrawal by submitting the Hardship (post-midterm) Withdrawal Petition. The petition will be available November 15th through December 9th. The deadline to submit the petition for Fall 2026 is December 9th at 11:59pm.
*Hardship Withdrawals (from Hardship Withdrawal | Office of the University Registrar):
A student may withdraw from a class, or from the university, after the withdrawal period (as identified on the Academic Calendar) until the last day of classes for the academic term, so long as grades have not been issued for the course. The "last day of classes' referred to the date published on the academic calendar, not the last day the course met.
Taken from Academic Policy - Withdrawal found here.
Students are allowed to repeat one time as many as three different completed courses with only the grade, credit hours and quality points for the second completion used when calculating the student’s GPA. The limit of three repeat options is for the student’s entire undergraduate career at UK, no matter how many different bachelor's degrees are pursued in a lifetime.
The repeat option can be used only to remove the first grade in a class from the GPA and replace it with the second grade. Both grades remain on the transcript but the first will have a notation saying the first grade is not used to calculate the GPA. An E grade received for an academic offense may NOT be replaced with the repeat option.
A student exercising the repeat option must consult the student’s academic advisor and must notify the Office of the Registrar. A student may exercise the repeat option at any time prior to graduation and must be enrolled at UK.
