011 Ramsey Library, CPO 1580
One University Heights
Asheville, NC 28804
academicsuccess@unca.edu
(828) 350-4501
Office Hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Academic Success Center
Your Success is Our Priority
The Academic Success Center (ASC) at UNC Asheville is your central hub for academic support, advising, accessibility services, and student success resources. Whether you’re exploring majors, registering for classes, planning for study abroad, or seeking peer tutoring — we’ve got you.
What We Offer
How to Register
How to Register
Dates
- Registration for Summer and Fall opens in early April.
- Registration for Spring opens in early November.
- Registration dates depend on Earned Hours and can be found on the Registration Calendar
Registration access begins at 7 a.m. on the first day of each group’s registration period. Web registration will be available 24 hours a day. Students must have a RAN in order to register. Students’ RAN numbers are available from their advisor.
Closed Class Overrides are not available until the first day of classes. Students seeking to enroll in a closed class should choose the Waitlist option (see below).
Instructor Permission is required for some classes and is indicated in the Class Title. Students seeking to enroll in those classes should contact the instructor for an Instructor Permission Override. The override will not grant registration access for a Closed Class.
Waitlists are available on almost all classes and we encourage students to choose the Waitlist option if they want to register for a class that is full. When students sign up for the Waitlist option and a seat becomes available, the first student on the Waitlist will receive an email notifying them that they have 24 hours from the date/time of the email to register for the class in OnePort.
If the student does not register in the 24 hour period, their ability to register expires and the next student on the Waitlist is notified. Students should check their email daily for possible notification that they may register for a Waitlisted class. Students on the Waitlist are not automatically registered for the class – they must log in to OnePort and register themselves for the class. Please remember to check for any holds that you might have on your account. If you do not plan to enroll for the next semester, you must complete the online Enrollment Notification form.
Payment for Fall semester is due August 1. Payment for Summer is due May 20.
Registration Information
Accepted students will receive their OnePort login information with their acceptance letter, along with other important instructions on how to register for classes. Oftentimes, new students are required to attend a new student orientation in order to get registered, so it’s important to read the acceptance letter carefully as well as any other communications from UNC Asheville.
Each semester, advising will occur in March for summer and fall registration, and in October for spring registration. Students meet with their assigned advisor to discuss what classes to take and to obtain their registration access number (RAN) which is required in order to be able to register for classes.
Early registration occurs for current students in April, for summer and fall classes, and in November for spring classes. Registration is based on a student’s earned hours with 105+ earned hours beginning first. Earned hours do not include any hours for which students are currently registered unless they have been graded.
Every semester, a registration calendar is posted on the Registrar’s website. The registration calendar gives the timeline when registration begins for each grouping of earned hours. Web Registration is available 24 hours a day.
Students should remember to check for any registration holds on their account prior to their registration appointment time! They should do this via their OnePort account.
During the registration period through week 1, you can add and/or drop courses online via OnePort.
To drop all courses before or during drop/add week, submit the online Enrollment Notification Form. A student is not “officially withdrawn” from the university until the Academic Success Center has received the Enrollment Notification Form.
Late Add
To add a course after the drop/add period and before the last day of classes, please submit the Late Add Registration form. This form will route to the instructor for approval.
Students who find that they must withdraw from the University after the drop/add week:
- For one or more courses, but not all, please submit the Single Course Withdrawal form.
- For all courses, please submit the Complete Withdrawal form.
Failure to submit the form and “officially” withdraw may affect the student’s academic record, financial aid award, and student account balance.
Students who wish to discuss the academic consequence of a withdrawal should contact the Academic Success Center.
For information on the financial impact of withdrawing, including the refund schedule, please see Student Accounts.
The Hardship Withdrawal policy exists for students who encounter an unforeseen extraordinary situation such as a serious illness or injury or some other significant personal situation after the withdrawal deadline, which prevents the student from being able to successfully continue in their classes.
Auditing a Course
If you want or need to take the course again in the future, an audit may be more appropriate then withdrawing from the course. Auditing a course will allow you to continue to attend the course and be exposed to the course material, which may assist in the future when you enroll in the course again. The Audit form requires the instructor’s signature as well as financial aid, if you’re an aid recipient. Regular tuition and fees still apply for audited courses.
Declaring Your Major
Declaring Your Major
Students are required to declare a major once they have earned 60 semester hours. Students who do not declare a major after earning 60 semester hours will have a hold placed on their records that prevents registration. Some majors require the completion of specific prerequisites prior to declaring. These will be listed in the departmental sections of the catalog.
Students are subject to the major and concentration requirements in effect at the time they declare, or change, their major or major concentration. Only enrolled, degree-seeking students may declare majors.
Ramsey Library
Ramsey Library
D. Hiden Ramsey Library, located at the heart of UNC Asheville’s campus, is the vital center of the pursuit of knowledge at UNC Asheville—inspiring intellectual curiosity, partnering in scholarly endeavors, anticipating information and service needs, exceeding expectations and embodying the university’s highest aims. In recent years, Ramsey Library has become home to the Media Design Lab and the CrAFT (Creativity, Art, Fabrication, and Technology) Studio, offering interactive, collaborative learning spaces where students, faculty, and staff from all academic departments come to create images, videos, printed designs, presentations, sound, websites and more.
Registration FAQs
The schedule of classes is available for viewing on the web after the designated Fall Break for the upcoming Spring semester and after the designated Spring Break for the upcoming Summer and Fall semesters.
Early registration occurs for current students in April for summer and fall classes, and in November for spring classes. The Office of the Registrar produces a Registration Calendar that is updated each semester with appropriate dates for registration indicating when web registration is accessible as well as access dates and times for each classification of student.
- Log in to OnePort and try to register for the course.
- If the course is closed, students will receive one of two messages:
a. “Closed – waitlist open”: This means space is available on the waitlist.
b. “Closed – waitlist closed”: This means the waitlist is full.
Note: If a message of “Open – Reserved for Waitlist” is received, this means that a seat in the class has opened but is reserved for students on the waitlist. - If students receive the “closed – waitlist open” message, they may add themselves to the waitlist via OnePort and wait for a seat to open. The option to add to the waitlist is under the drop-down box where they add/drop. Students may monitor their position on the waitlist via OnePort by viewing their detailed schedule.
- If students receive the “closed – waitlist closed” message, they will not have the option to add themselves to the waitlist because no additional spots are available. Students may, however, check back periodically to see if a space on the waitlist becomes available.
- If students place themselves on the waitlist and a seat opens up in the course, notification is sent to their UNC Asheville email. Students then have 24 hours from the time the notification is sent to add the course through their OnePort account. If the time expires, students must begin the waitlist process over again.
- If students place themselves on the waitlist and decide they no longer want to take the course, they must log in to OnePort and drop themselves off the waitlist so the next student can be notified.