If you are an enrolled Elliott School graduate student who is interested in taking a course at an area institution, please refer to the Consortium Registration process on the Registrar's website. Once entered into a degree program, you cannot take and transfer credit toward your degree from institutions that are part of the consortium agreement. Instead, you are required to register through the Consortium Registration process.
After you've reviewed the information provided on the Registrar's website, consider these tips from advising:
- Complete the form in its entirety. Incomplete forms cannot be sent on to the Registrar's office for processing.
- If you wish to have a direct equivalent assigned to the course, you are required to obtain the appropriate departmental approval and enter the equivalent on the form. Otherwise, the course is most likely to transfer as the appropriate "Special Topics" course.
- Approval of your Consortium registration request does not constitute for approval for the course to count toward your program. You should always check with your Program Director and/or academic advisor to ensure that the credits are applicable to your degree (especially if you are planning to count the course toward anything other than electives).
- You are not guranteed a seat in the consortium course and if you are given a spot in the course, it will likely be later in the registration period. This is because home school students receive priority registration (in the same way that you are given priority registration for GW courses before a consortium students is given a seat in a GW course). It is always a good idea to have a plan B.
If you have questions, please ask your academic advisor or contact the GW Consortium Coordinator (consortium@gwu.edu).
