Re-Enrollment Information

All students who were previously enrolled at UMass Amherst in an on-campus or online undergraduate degree program and want to return to degree-seeking status, including:

• Students who left the university in good academic standing returning from a personal or medical withdrawal, including inactive students who need to transfer credits from another institution or apply CLEPs to their record to graduate.
• Students returning after academic suspension, academic dismissal or disciplinary suspension.

• Students returning to an on-campus AS degree program through the Stockbridge School of Agriculture must use the Stockbridge Re-Enrollment Application.
• Students that have already earned a Bachelor’s degree, either from UMass Amherst or another institution, and want to earn another undergraduate degree need to submit a Second Bachelor’s Degree Application.
• Students that have never matriculated into an on-campus or online undergraduate degree program at UMass Amherst need to apply through the Admissions Office. This includes any previously admitted student that never attended UMass Amherst.

Students returning from medical withdrawal

If you withdrew from UMass Amherst through University Health Services (UHS), you need clearance from the UHS Medical Director to re-enroll. Upon submitting your re-enrollment application, please contact the Office of the Medical Director via email or phone (413.577.5211) for more information.

Students returning from disciplinary suspension

If you are returning from a disciplinary suspension, you need clearance from the Student Conduct and Community Standards Office to re-enroll. Upon submitting your re-enrollment application, please contact their office for more information.

The following will require Academic Dean clearance to re-enroll at UMass Amherst:

• You are returning from academic suspension or from academic dismissal.
  • Students returning from academic dismissal need clearance from the Committee on Admissions and Records (CAR), with prior endorsement by your Academic Dean.
• Your cumulative GPA is below 2.0.
• You withdrew from UMass Amherst after the the last day to withdraw from courses during the most recent semester and have not remained out of school for a full semester.
• You require an 11th or 12th semester to complete your degree requirements.

Students with outstanding financial obligations

Outstanding financial obligations to the university need to be resolved before students can be re-enrolled. The University Registrar’s Office will process your application once the Bursar’s Hold has been removed from your record. Please contact the Bursar’s Office for more information.

Please follow the above instructions on how to access and submit the re-enrollment application. Once you receive confirmation from the University Registrar’s Office that your application has been processed, please contact the department of the new major you are interested in joining. If a major change is approved, the department of the new major will update your record in SPIRE.

Students who were previously enrolled in an on-campus undergraduate degree program but never completed their degree and wish to return to an online undergraduate degree program must complete the following:

1. Submit a Re-Enrollment Application through their SPIRE account
2. Submit the Program Change Request Form. Please consider reaching out to the appropriate online degree program contact prior to submitting the form to discuss your options.

Your record will be updated once both the Re-Enrollment Application and Program Change Request Form have been submitted and approved.

Yes, there is a non-refundable $85 application fee associated with the Re-Enrollment Application.

U.S. citizens who were on an approved Military/Active-Duty Withdrawal are eligible for their application fee to be waived if documentation of the original military orders are included with the Re-Enrollment Application (documentation can be e-mailed directly to @email).

Students returning to degree-seeking status may need additional clearance before the University Registrar’s Office can process their application. This could include, but is not limited to:

• Students returning from medical withdrawal.
• Students returning from disciplinary suspension.
• Students returning from academic suspension or academic dismissal.
• Students that withdrew after the the last day to withdraw from courses during the most recent semester and have not remained out of school for a full semester.
• Students that require an 11th or 12th semester to complete your degree requirements.

Once all approvals have been received, your application will be processed, and the University Registrar’s Office will notify you via email confirmation.

Yes, all inactive undergraduate students that want to become active again need to submit a re-enrollment application. Students will have the opportunity on the application to indicate they don’t intend to enroll in classes but plan to apply transfer credits or CLEPs for graduation purposes. Once your re-enrollment application has been processed, you will be connected with our Diploma and Graduation Services team to go over the next steps. If you have any questions, you can reach out to their area directly by email (@email) or by phone (413.545.0555, option 4).

Students that want to enroll in classes for an upcoming semester can submit their re-enrollment application through the end of add/drop. However, any application submitted after the final deadline will require additional clearance from an academic dean. There is no guarantee that applications submitted after the final deadline will be approved. Please contact your academic dean’s office to discuss your options if submitting your application after the final deadline.

Official transcripts of any courses attempted at another institution during your time away from UMass Amherst should be sent to @email or mailed to: Transfer Processing, c/o Undergraduate Admissions, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 37 Mather Drive, Amherst, MA 01003. Credits and university requirements approved for transfer are added to your permanent record without affecting your grade point average. For more information about the transfer credit process, please review the information on our website and contact the Transfer Credit Services area with any questions via e-mail (@email) or by phone (413.545.0555, option 3).

Students will have the opportunity to indicate on the re-enrollment application if they are interested in enrolling in the preceding Summer or Winter term before their re-enrollment term. To be able to enroll in either Winter or Summer classes, the re-enrollment application must be submitted and processed prior to any registration deadlines. Please refer to the University+ Academic Calendar for important Summer and Winter dates and deadlines. For more information about enrolling in Summer or Winter classes, the University+ Registration Office is available via e-mail (@email) or by phone (413.545.3653).

Students returning to UMass Amherst after an absence of at least three years may be eligible to elect re-enrollment with the “Fresh Start” option. This option enables eligible students to have their prior work not included in their cumulative grade point average, so they “start fresh” with a 0.0 cumulative GPA. Information about the Fresh Start option will be sent to eligible students when re-enrollment is approved, and is available on the University Registrar’s website.

Students who cannot attend for the semester they have re-enrolled for are encouraged to notify the University Registrar’s Office by cancelling their application through SPIRE no later than the first day of classes of their re-enrollment term. This will send a notification to our Re-Enrollment Coordinators for processing. To cancel your application, navigate to the application in SPIRE (Academics Tile > Forms & Academic Requests > Application for Re-Enrollment) and click on the ‘Cancel Request’ button. Please reach out to @email with any questions.