Many of UCSB’s regular session undergraduate and selected graduate courses are available to Open Enrollment students. Open Enrollment is offered on a space-available basis; all regularly enrolled UCSB matriculated students must be accommodated before Open Enrollment students will be admitted. Permission from the professor is required for all courses. Certain courses require additional permission from a teaching assistant and/or the department chair. Admittance to UCSB regular session courses, discussion sections, or labs is not guaranteed, and the professor’s (or Department Chair’s) decision is final.

Class attendance, participation in discussion sections, completion of assignments and exams, grading options, and deadlines are the same for Open Enrollment students as for matriculated students. Open Enrollment students are responsible for meeting all course prerequisites listed in the UCSB General Catalog and should be prepared to provide evidence to the professor or department that prerequisites have been satisfied.