WELCOME NEW FRIEDMAN SCHOOL STUDENTS AND HAPPY SPRING 2024 REGISTRATION!
SPRING 2024 REGISTRATION
Please log in to SIS (go.tufts.edu/sis) to enroll in your spring 2024 courses. No worries, you may adjust your spring 2024 course schedule in SIS as needed up until the Friedman School's spring 2024 Add deadline which is January 24, 2024.
HOLDS ON YOUR ACCOUNT IN SIS
- How to remove the Registration Agreement Hold on your account: click here for instructions.
- How to remove the Current Address Hold on your account: click here for instructions.
- If you have a Hold on your account in SIS from the Tufts Health Sciences Bursar's Office or Tufts Student Advisory and Health Administration, you will NOT be able to register via SIS and you will need to contact the Bursar’s Office or SAHA-Admin@tufts.edu directly to help resolve the Hold for you.
SPRING 2024 COURSE SCHEDULE
Below is the spring 2024 NUTR Course Schedule, as well as additional registration resources:
- NUTR Spring 2024 Course Listings (download Excel spreadsheet)
- Visual overview of the NUTR Spring 2024 Course Schedule (download Excel spreadsheet)
- Click here for the direct link to NUTR courses in SIS
- Click here to review last year's spring 2023 semester's course syllabi
- Click here for the direct link to the Friedman School's online course catalog
(Please note as our spring 2024 course syllabi become available they will be posted to the School's online catalog.) - Click here for the Friedman School's on-campus Fall 2023-Spring 2024 academic calendar
DOCTORAL STUDENTS
- Please note it is a requirement for doctoral students to enroll in the placeholder course, NUTR 0399: Doctoral Candidacy Preparation, during every fall and spring registration period which indicates to multiple departments and entities (e.g., loan lenders, the Office of Financial Aid, the Bursar’s office, Tufts International Center, U.S. Homeland Security, Student Advisory and Health Administration (SAHA), the National Student Clearinghouse, etc., that you are a full-time enrolled PhD student regardless of your course enrollment. You must enroll in this course every fall and spring semester until you pass your Qualifying Examination.
- After passing the Qualifying Examination you stop enrolling in NUTR 0399 and instead enroll in the required course, NUTR 0403: PhD Thesis Only, during every fall and spring registration period until you graduate to indicate your full-time enrollment status in your academic record in SIS.
- If you are a BMN or NEDS doctoral student you are required to enrolled in the BMN PhD Seminar course, NUTR 0250, or the NEDS PhD Seminar course, NUTR 0249, every fall and spring semester.
- If you are an AFE, FANPP, or NICBC doctoral student you are required to enroll in two semesters of the PhD seminar, NUTR 0404.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
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You need to enroll Full-Time in the spring 2024 semester; full-time is defined as a minimum of 9 semester hour units (SHUs) per semester.
- International students should review the International Center’s guidance regarding COVID-19 found at https://icenter.tufts.edu/immigration/covid-19-updates/ as well as other information on the Center’s website. For questions about your visa, contact Neriliz.Soto_Gonzalez@tufts.edu.
DUAL-DEGREE STUDENTS
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If you attempted to enroll in a course at one of your dual-degree schools and could not via SIS, this means you need to use the cross-registration feature in SIS; this will bypass the instructor approval and be directed to the relevant Registrar for approval and for enrollment processing.
OTHER FRIEDMAN SCHOOL COURSE OPTIONS FOR ENROLLMENT IN SUMMER 2024 - PLEASE CONSULT WITH YOUR ACADEMIC ADVISOR
NUTB (MNSP) Summer 2024 Courses:
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For the summer 2024 semester on-campus degree program students may self-enroll via SIS in MNSP NUTB courses.You may review the course descriptions of the Summer 2024 NUTB courses in SIS.
NUTC (Certificate) Summer 2024 Courses:
- For the summer 2024 semester on-campus degree program students may self-enroll via SIS in a NUTC (Certificate) course as an elective course. NUTC (Certificate) courses are online and asynchronous. Please be sure to discuss your enrollment in a Certificate (NUTC) course as an elective with your academic advisor.
- Click here to review in SIS NUTC (Certificate) course offerings for the summer 2024 semester.
Developing a spring 2024 Directed Study Course:
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Click here to review instructions about how to develop a directed study course for the spring 2024 semester and download the directed study course proposal form. Once the form and faculty approvals are obtained, please email the completed form to NutritionRegistrar@tufts.edu so you may be enrolled via SIS by the Friedman School's Spring 2024 Add Deadline: January 24, 2024.
Cross-Registration in a Spring 2024 Course:
IMPORTANT:
- The Friedman School’s cross-registration partnerships that are available in the fall and spring semesters include: Tufts University Schools, Boston Consortium Schools (Boston University, Boston College, and Brandeis), and Harvard School of Public Health. Click here to review in detail each cross-registration partner's policies and processes.
- Tufts students may not cross-register in BU’s Online or Hybrid courses per the BU’s Provost Office (no exceptions) and also HSPH notes on their cross-registration webpage that Online courses are not eligible for cross-registration. Also, if you would like to cross register for a course at BU's School of Public Health (SPH), you must contact an SPH representative for registration approval. Contact the School of Public Health Registrar’s Office at sphregr@bu.edu or 617-358-3434.
- Our cross-registration partners do not follow the same academic calendar as the Friedman School so please be sure to review the Host school's academic calendar for their add/drop deadlines, and other academic dates and deadlines, final exams, and holidays.
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Please be patient with the cross-registration process—cross-registration partner host schools will not review/approve cross-registration requests until close to the start of the semester.
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You may NOT use the mechanism of enrollment in a directed study course with a supervising Friedman School faculty member in order to enroll in a course that is offered at a school that's not an approved cross-registration partner (no reciprocity) with the Friedman School.
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Our cross-registration partnerships pause in the summer semester with other Tufts Schools, HSPH, Brandeis, Boston University, and Boston College so you may not cross-register in the summer semester with these schools or you will be billed the Host school's tuition charge. In the summer semester you may cross-register at Tufts Public Health (all other cross-registration with our other cross-registration partners must take place only in the fall and spring semesters).
FRIEDMAN SCHOOL/SIMMONS CERTIFICATE IN THE DIDACTIC PROGRAM IN DIETETICS (DPD)
- If you were admitted to the Simmons DPD program and have not yet self-identified, please email Dr. Lynne Ausman and Nutrition Registrar. You will also be added to the Friedman School's eList for students completing their DPD via Simmons. For an overview of the Tufts/Simmons DPD Program go to: https://nutrition.tufts.edu/simmons.
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Tufts University's Friedman School's 2023-2024 tuition rates, and semester fees are posted here: https://nutrition.tufts.edu/admissions/tuition-expenses-financial-aid.
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You will be billed the spring 2024 tuition, semester fees, and health insurance charge in the first week of November 2023 which will be due in early December 2023.
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To avoid a late fee, tuition, semester and health insurance fees must be paid in advance of the first day of the spring 2024 semester (January 17, 2024) to be in compliance with Tufts University's requirement for student matriculation.
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Note: If you have a Hold on your account in SIS from the Tufts Health Sciences Bursar's Office or Tufts Student Advisory and Health Administration, you will NOT be able to register via SIS and you will need to contact the Bursar’s Office or SAHA-Admin@tufts.edu directly to help resolve the Hold for you.