Enrolment
Enrolling in your courses is an essential step each study period, whether you are a new or continuing ANU student. This page explains what you need to do, the key dates to remember, and where to get support.
Managing your enrolment is your responsibility. You must make sure you enrol in the correct courses on time so you can meet your program and course requirements.
Missing an enrolment deadline may affect your academic progress, so please act early.
Further information can be found here: Enrolment
Permission codes
Permission approval allows a student to enrol in a course despite not meeting the listed prerequisites. Permission is granted only in exceptional cases, as requisites ensure students have the necessary background knowledge and skills to be successful in the course.
Important: The permission code process is handled by CSS Student Services. Course Conveners will usually direct you back to us, so please follow the Student Services process first. If we need approval from a Convener, we’ll let you know.
CSS courses are those delivered by the College of Systems and Society. These include courses with the codes COMP, ENGN, ENVS, MATH and SCOM. If the course you’re applying for is not one of these please contact the relevant College
The CSS Permission Code portal for Summer and Autumn 2026 is now open. Applications close on each course’s class start date as shown on the Programs and Courses website. The CSS Permission Code application portal for Semester 1 2026 will open 9:00 AM, 8 December 2025 and close 2:00 PM, 2 March 2026.
For non-standard sessions (e.g. Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter), please refer to the “Class start date” date on the Programs and Courses website.
Applications will not be accepted after the closing date. If you wish to enrol after the deadline, please refer to the below Late Enrolment process.
Eligibility
You can apply for a permission code if:
ANUHub constraint
- You meet the listed course and/or program prerequisites through previous ANU study but cannot self-enrol in ANUHub.
Department consent required
- The course requires “department consent” and you’ve met all other published requirements.
Course Availability
- When your program required you to complete a specific course because it was a prerequisite for a higher-level course, but that prerequisite course has since been discontinued, is no longer listed as a prerequisite for the higher-level course, and the higher-level course does not list a replacement course on the CSS website under Course substitutions. For example, some undergraduate Engineering students were required to complete PHYS1013 under the 2019–2021 rules, but the higher-level ENGN courses now list PHYS1101/PHYS1001 as the prerequisite instead, with no replacement listed for PHYS1013.
High-achieving student
- You are a high-achieving student (GPA ≥ 6.5, no academic integrity issues) who has completed at least 48 units at ANU and can demonstrate strong results (Distinction or higher) in related courses.*
Honour Approved Study Plan
- You have an approved study plan for an Honours (1-year) program, signed by the relevant academic delegate.**
Formal/Informal Learning
- You have completed the prerequisites through prior formal learning or informal learning. Please see Course Credit & Exemption for documentation requirements. Noting permission to enrol into a course does not constitute assessment or approval for course credit/exemption.
If you have failed or not attempted a prerequisite course, you would typically not be permitted to enrol in the subsequent course unless there is a strong academic or compassionate and compelling justification.
- individual project course registration - submit project registration for individual project courses here.
- MATH and ENVS Special Topic courses - these are managed by the respective Schools. Please contact them directly for enrolment assistance.
- Conditional Permission Code requests. If you have an interim grade (DA, PX, RP) for a prerequisite course and your final grade is released before Monday of Week 3, you may submit a Late Enrolment Application instead.
- Most of CSS courses are available in the Permission Code portal. However, enrolment into some specific courses is managed by the respective Schools. Please check the list of courses below.
Permission Code Application Portal
List of courses not available in the CSS Permission Code portal
- ENVS1003 Introduction to Environmental and Social Research
- ENVS2005 Island Sustainable Development: Fiji Field School
- ENVS2012 Sustainable Urban Systems
- ENVS2017 Vietnam Field School
- ENVS3008 Fire in the Environment
- ENVS3016 Special Topic
- ENVS3029 Palaeo-Environmental Reconstruction
- ENVS3045 Social Applications of GIS
- ENVS3100 Independent Research Project
- ENVS4000 Honours Thesis
- ENVS6017 Vietnam Field School
- ENVS6103 Introduction to Environmental and Social Research
- ENVS6205 Island Sustainable Development: Fiji Field School
- ENVS6308 Fire in the Environment
- ENVS6345 Social Applications of GIS
- ENVS6529 Palaeo-Environmental Reconstruction
- ENVS8000 Masters Thesis
- ENVS8048 Topics in Environment and Society
- ENVS8100 Independent Research Project
- SCNC2201 Optimism and Agency in Times of Change
Please contact Fenner School via fses.coursework.enquiries@anu.edu.au for enrolment assistance on the above courses.
- MATH3349 Special Topics in Mathematics
- MATH4005 Thesis and Presentations in Mathematics
- MATH4349 Special Topics in Mathematics
- MATH6209 Special Topic in Mathematical Sciences
- MATH8701 Mathematics Research Project
- MATH8702 Mathematics Reading Course
- MATH8705 Masters Special Topics in Mathematics
Please contact MSI via admin.teaching.msi@anu.edu.au for enrolment assistance on the above courses.
I've failed the prerequisite course. Can I reattempt the prerequisite and enrol concurrently in the later course in the same semester?
Typically, no. Requesting to enrol into a course concurrently with a course prerequisite will not be considered unless the course is explicitly listed as a co-requisite or unless there is a significant academic and/or compassionate and compelling justification.
Does permission to enrol allow me to enrol in more than 24 units per each study period?
Permission to enrol does not permit you to exceed 24 units in a semester. To do so, you must submit a formal overload application. For further information, see: ANU – Overload Your Enrolment
Late enrolment
This process applies to all students wishing to add or swap CSS courses. Please read through the information below as only one late enrolment application is accepted for each session.
For other courses not offered by CSS, please contact the relevant College.
You are encouraged to only apply for courses where you meet the prerequisites. Applications that do not meet requisites are likely to be declined. You may include up to four courses in your late enrolment application.
The Late Enrolment process does not apply if you are applying for overload, third attempt, or dropping a course.
If you wish to drop from an advanced course to a standard course (e.g., COMP1130 to COMP1100 or MATH2222 to MATH1005), please contact the CSS Student Services team at student.css@anu.edu.au along with an ANU Enrolment Change form by the relevant deadline.
If you wish to enrol in an advanced course, you will need to follow the late enrolment process.
Key dates for Semester 1, 2026
| Last day to add/swap course on ANUHub | 11:59pm Monday 02 March 2026 |
| Late enrolment portal opens | 2pm on Monday 02 March 2026 |
| Last day to submit the late enrolment request | 2pm on Monday 09 March 2026 |
Late enrolment requests will not be accepted after this deadline. For non-standard sessions (e.g. Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter), the late enrolment is open between the “Class start date” and the “Last day to enrol” date on the Programs and Courses website.
Approved circumstances
You may be approved for late enrolment if you meet one of the scenarios outlined below and can provide supporting documentation (e.g. medical certificate, statutory declaration) to show your eligibility.
- Medical reasons
- Family/personal reasons
- Administration reasons
- Misadventure
- Waiting on the outcome of credit application, supplementary or deferred exams
Please be aware that late enrolment into your course(s) cannot be considered as grounds for any of the following requests:
- Special Consideration
- Special/Deferred Examinations and Assessment
- Reduced Study Load
- Exemption in the academic performance process (in the case of any failure to pass any courses this semester).
- Complaints or Appeals regarding poor academic performance due to late commencement