Students should not assume that they will be automatically dropped from their courses for non-payment. Students are solely responsible for ensuring that they have successfully dropped their courses in order to avoid additional fees and charges to their account and to avoid receiving a grade of ‘F’ for nonattendance.
To drop a course(s) after Census Day is considered a withdrawal.
Undergraduate Students
If you are receiving financial aid or are an international student, please be sure to contact your financial aid or international student advisor BEFORE dropping.
All new students, freshmen, students with undeclared majors and students who have holds must have their advisor’s approval before changing their schedule or completely withdrawing.
Options on how to submit the request:
- Before Census Day (Academic Calendar) AND if you do not have holds, you can drop your course(s):
- Preferred method – Online. Instruction: Drop a class in Schedule Planner (pdf)
- For students with holds send request by email from your UT Dallas account to your academic advisor.
Note – Your schedule change request must include:- Your name
- The course(s) you are adjusting (adding, dropping or withdrawing)
- The last four digits of your student ID
- Your signature (by email from your UT Dallas account to your academic advisor)
- After Census Day through the last day for Withdraw (please see Academic Calendar):
- **New Online Process for Undergraduate Students** Instructions: Orion Undergraduate Drop/Withdrawal Instructions (pdf)
Email requests from your UT Dallas email address will be honored as your signature/consent. Requests made by email are subject to the published deadline dates listed in the academic calendar. You are responsible for all changes to your schedule. Please follow up on your request by logging into Orion and verifying the changes have been made.
Limitations on Course Withdrawals for Undergraduate Students (Texas 6-Withdrawals Rule)
As enacted by the State of Texas Legislature, undergraduate students will not be permitted to withdraw from more than six courses, including any course from which a transfer student has withdrawn at another institution of higher education in Texas. This rule is effective beginning with first-time freshmen in Fall 2007 and applies when a student
- Withdrew from the course without receiving a grade or incurring an academic penalty,
- Transcript indicates or will indicate that the student was enrolled in the course and
- Is not withdrawing from the course in order to withdraw from the institution.
Non-academic withdrawals are exempt from counting toward the six drop rule.
Graduate Students
If you are receiving financial aid or are an international student, please be sure to contact your financial aid or international student advisor BEFORE dropping.
Options on how to submit the request:
- Before Census Day (Academic Calendar), you can drop your course(s)
- Online. Instructions: Drop a class in Schedule Planner. (pdf)
- By email from your UT Dallas account to records@utdallas.edu. Your schedule change request must include:
- Your name
- The course(s) you are adjusting (adding, dropping or withdrawing)
- The last four digits of your student ID
- Your signature.
After Census Day through the last day for Withdraw (W),
- Email the academic advisor from your UT Dallas email account with course to withdraw.
- Or fill out the Registration form (pdf) and submit to academic advisor.
Email requests from your UT Dallas email address will be honored as your signature/consent. Requests made by email are subject to the published deadline dates listed in the academic calendar. You are responsible for all changes to your schedule. Please follow up on your request by logging into Orion and verifying the changes have been made.
Refunds
Please visit the Bursar’s Office website for information regarding refunds for dropped classes.