Course Registration for Visiting International Students

The International Programs and Services Office (IPSO) is responsible for completing course registration for visiting international students who are enrolled in regular English-taught AUC courses. Upon acceptance to AUC and during the advising period, students are required to submit a Preliminary Course Planning (PCP) form to IPSO with their course preferences. IPSO obtains departmental approval for course selections and registers students accordingly during the registration period. 

If you are currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate degree program at a university outside of Egypt, you can spend a semester or longer at AUC as a non-degree visiting international student, earning transfer credit toward your home degree. 

• Your home university is ultimately responsible for determining transfer credit eligibility for the courses you take at AUC.
• At the end of your term at AUC, you will be able to obtain an official AUC transcript that lists your course names and letter grades earned. 

Undergraduate Students 
You will be registered during the early registration period pending approvals from AUC academic departments. You will have one more chance to make changes to your schedule during the late registration (drop/add) period during the first week of classes. 

Graduate Students
You will be registered during the onsite international student orientation. 

Undergraduate students must enroll in 12-15 credit hours and graduate students must enroll in 9 credits to be full-time and eligible for Egyptian residency.
 

The summer session includes a six-week period and sometimes two accelerated three-week periods. The maximum load for summer enrollment is six credit hours (two courses). Students can take two courses from the six-week session or one course from three-week session (A) and/or one course from three-week session (B). You can not combine courses from the six-week and three-week sessions. 

The maximum load for winter enrollment is three credit hours (one course). 

In fall and spring semesters, undergraduate students can take a maximum of 18 and graduate students a maximum of 12 credit hours, with the approval of the Office of the University Registrar. If students are studying abroad on tuition exchange, both AUC and the home university must approve course overloads and students may be responsible for paying these extra credits. 

Pending prerequisites, you are eligible to enroll in courses at the 1000, 2000, 3000, and 4000 level. If you are an upper-level student, you may be eligible for select 5100-level courses and up to one 5200-level course (excluding business) pending departmental approval.  Loading... for details on course eligibility.
 

You must take a full course load of only 5000 or 6000-level graduate courses; the only exception to this is including one three-credit Arabic language class into your course load.

Undergraduate and graduate students can include Arabic language courses for credit in their schedule but cannot audit Arabic classes. If you have a background in the language, fill out the Arabic background form so the Arabic department can reach out to administer an online placement exam. If you have no previous background, you can be registered for the elementary level of the course. 

Students can take only courses with the prefix "ALNG" (not "ALIN" or "ALIS"), which are designed to be taken alongside content courses taught in English. AUC offers both Modern Standard (MSA) and Egyptian Colloquial (ECA) Arabic. For details about Arabic courses, click here. 
 

At the start of the advising period each term (generally mid-November for spring and mid-April for fall), AUC courses are posted on the Dynamic Schedule. In the meantime, you can review the Loading.... descriptions, which indicate the semester each course is generally offered. Information in the course catalog is subject to change and some courses are not taught every year. If you need to see a recent course syllabus to review with your home university advisors, email ipso@aucegypt.edu.