Registration for the Spring 2026 semester will open on Vergil for first years on Friday, November 21 and Monday, November 24. Please check Vergil for your specific registration appointment windows, and refer to Registrar Simmons’ email of November 11 for detailed information about registration. For first-year specific information, read on. At this time, only Barnard courses will be available for registration. Please review this list of Barnard classes that are holding space for first-year students as you are considering class selections.
You will have a second opportunity to register for classes on December 8-12, and then again during the first two weeks of the Spring term (January 20-30). During these registration periods, a small number of pre-approved Columbia classes that were not available for registration in November will be available for registration on Vergil. If there is space available in a class that appears in the list below, you are welcome to register for it directly. If the class is full, and running a waitlist, you may certainly join that waitlist and see what happens during the first two weeks of the Spring term. As there are no guarantees that a space will become available in a full course, it would be wise to have a plan B.
Categories of Columbia Classes that are available for registration in December and January as exceptions to the First Year @ Barnard requirement:
A class in a language or level of language not offered at Barnard
Musical instrument instruction
The following introductory courses in certain majors
Computer Science:
COMS W1004 Introduction to Computer Science
COMS W3134 Data Structures in Java
COMS W3157 Advanced Programming
COMS W3203 Discrete Mathematics
COMS UN1404 Emerging Scholars Program Seminar
Environmental Science:
EESC UN2100 Earth’s Environmental Systems: Climate Systems
EESC UN2200 Earth’s Environmental Systems: Solid Earth
EESC UN1010 Geological Excursion to Death Valley
SDEV UN2300 Challenges of Sustainable Environment
Mathematics:
MATH UN1205 Accelerated Multivariable Calculus
MATH UN1207 Honors Math A
MATH UN1208 Honors Math B
MATH UN2015 Linear Algebra and Probability
MATH UN1215 Accelerated Multivar Calculus
MATH UN1202 Calc IV
Statistics:
STAT UN1101 Introduction to Statistics
STAT UN1201 Introduction to Calculus-based Statistics
STAT UN2102 Applied Statistical Computing
Sociology:
SOCI UN1000 The Social World
Exceptions to this list are unlikely to be approved. If you have a compelling case for one, please speak with your pre-major adviser about the petition process. And again – have a back-up plan.
