Enrollment Appointments

Information

All active students, except new first-year students, are assigned an Enrollment Appointment.  Your Enrollment Appointment date and time will appear in your PAWS account roughly one week before enrollment begins. Look in your PAWS Student Center under Enrollment Dates.  

New transfer students will receive an Enrollment Appointment once their transfer work posts to their PAWS account. New first-year students enroll either during New Student Orientation or with their Academic Advisor and do not receive an Enrollment Appointment.

Enrollment Appointments are scheduled in the following order as established by UWM Faculty Policy.  Military Service students receive priority through Wisconsin Act 56 (2013).

Priority

Students from the following groups enroll in the first enrollment appointment time slot, regardless of career or academic level:

• Honors College
• NCAA (including Dance/Cheer Team)
• Military Service (including ROTC)
• Select Accessibility Resource Center students
• Student Association Leadership

Graduate Students

Following the priority groups listed above, the enrollment appointments as assigned by career and academic level within the career.

1. Graduate Dissertator & Prelim students
2. Degree-Seeking Graduate students
3. Non-Degree Graduate students

Undergraduate Students

Following the priority groups listed above, the enrollment appointments as assigned by career and academic level within the career.

1. Degree-Seeking Seniors
2. Degree-Seeking Juniors
3. Degree-Seeking Sophomores
4. Degree-Seeking First-Year Students
5. Non-Degree Undergraduate students (including Post-Baccalaureate & Certificate)
6. 60+ Auditor students (eligible to enroll the first day of classes)

If you are unsure of your class standing, a chart of class standings by credit totals and schools and colleges is available under “Enrollment Polices” on the Registrar’s Office website.

Once the “open enrollment” date is reached for a term, an enrollment appointment is no longer needed to enroll and will not be assigned.  The open enrollment dates for each term are listed on the corresponding important dates calendar.