Graduate Students

The Registrar’s Office will send you an email a month before registration begins inviting you to participate in priority registration. Each student is given a specific registration start time, and this email contains your specific start time as well as other information to help you with registration and add/drop.

• For all current students, we follow the College policy of corresponding with you through your @bankstreet.edu account. If you need help accessing your account, please contact the IT Help Desk at helpdesk@bankstreet.edu.
• For recently accepted students, please check the personal email address you used on your admission application.

You must meet with your faculty advisor to discuss what you plan to register for in the upcoming semester in order to be electronically cleared for registration. Your advisor’s name is listed at the top of your registration start-time email. Please confirm your advisor has cleared you to register before your registration period begins. If you need help with advisor clearance after the start of registration, please contact your advisor or Program Director. If you are in a leadership cohort, you may not need advisor clearance. Contact your Program Director to see if this applies to you.

You can register online through myBankStreetConnect (myBSC) once your start time begins. We recommend you login to your account a few days in advance of your start time to make sure you can access your account. If you run into trouble logging in, contact IT Help Desk at (212) 875-4642 or helpdesk@bankstreet.edu.

If  you are missing certain portions of your admissions application, you could have a hold on your my.bankstreet account that will prevent you from registering. Use the Navigation Instructions PDF to help you view any holds you may have. You must clear any holds before you can register. Please view our main Registration page for more information on accounts holds.

There are a few other things which may prevent you from registering that are NOT holds:

• If registration is not yet open
• If it is not yet your designated registration start time (registration begins at 9:00 AM for each registration group. If you login before 9:00 AM on your start day, please log out and log back in after 9:00 AM).
• If you are trying to register for a course reserved for a specific cohort or group of students (you may not join classes reserved for specific cohorts unless there is a note on the schedule indicating potential exceptions.
• If you haven’t taken the necessary prerequisites/co-requisites for a class. (Your advisor may give you electronic permission to register for a class without prerequisites/co-requisites. Only your advisor or Program Director can give you this permission.)

Payment can be made through my.bankstreet or over the phone with a representative. For more information regarding payment options, please visit the Bursar’s Office page or call (212) 961-3369.

For most courses, if you go to register and find the class is closed, you can put yourself on a wait list. If a seat opens later in the course, students are invited to register for the open seat based on their position on the wait list. Just remember, not all courses will have wait lists and not all people who put themselves on a wait list will be invited to register for the course. Please visit our Wait list FAQ page for more information.

Register for any Integrative Master’s Project (IMP) options (except the Portfolio) online through my.bankstreet during regular priority registration and Add/Drop periods. Your IMP options for registration are:

Semester-Based:

• IMP1 (Site-based Inquiry)
• IMP2 (Collaborative Student-Faculty Inquiry)
• IMP3 (Mentored Directed Essay)

Two Semesters (may extend work into one additional semester):

• IS500 (Independent Study)

If you register for the Independent Study, please complete the electronic Independent Study Mentor Form to notify the Graduate School which mentor has agreed to work with you for your Independent Study.

If you are interested in the Portfolio IMP option, please review the IMP page for more information on how to apply online. If you are part of a leadership cohort, you might be required to register for a particular IMP specific to your program. Please view your cohort’s schedule as part of the larger semester course schedule.

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Register for your Supervised Fieldwork (also referred to as Fieldwork, Conference Group, Field Placement, or Advisement) online through my.bankstreet. All regular registration deadlines and cut off registration dates apply to fieldwork registration. Before you register, we recommend you check your program-specific page in the Academic Catalog to make sure you know the correct course number of the specific fieldwork for your program.

If your fieldwork spans two semesters, you need to register for your fieldwork twice (once each semester). If you only register once, you won’t earn the full credit amount to meet the fieldwork requirement of your program.

Please remember, you must be fingerprinted with the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) before beginning fieldwork. Please check our Fingerprinting page for more information.

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If you are looking to work one-on-one with a faculty member for credit, either on a course that currently exists, or on a course of your own design, you can have the instructor and other representatives of your department sign off on an Individualized Course Form granting the Registrar’s Office permission to create a course section specific to you and your instructor. You can email completed forms to the Registrar’s Office at studentservices@bankstreet.edu or fax the form to the office at (212) 875-4677.

When we receive the form, our office will build a custom course for you. We will then email you with a confirmation and a course number. Once you receive this email, you will be able to register for your Individualized Course online through my.bankstreet. All regular registration deadlines and cut off registration dates apply to Individualized Course registration.

Do you need to complete a college-level science course to meet the liberal arts and sciences prerequisites required by the state of New York? Are you looking for a unique way to earn elective credits for your degree? Bank Street College partners with the Museum of Natural History to offer an opportunity to earn graduate-level credit for prescribed science courses. If you have registered for at least one previous course with Bank Street or you have been formally admitted into one of our graduate programs, you are welcome to take an online science course conducted by the Museum of Natural History with credit granted by Bank Street.
Registration for a Seminar on Science course is a two-part process. Please be sure to register through the museum before completing your registration with Bank Street. Please note Bank Street can only grant graduate credit for the following courses: “The Diversity of Fishes,” “Earth: Inside and Out,” and “Space, Time, and Motion.”

Note: Alumni also qualify for this program.