Making course changes

Important information for College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CAHSS) Visiting Students on a Study Abroad/Exchange programme about making course changes and the CAHSS Course Change Request Form.

 

Deadlines for 2025/26 Academic Year

The course change deadlines below are for the 2025/26 academic year 

Students have until the end of Teaching Week 2 in each semester to add or drop courses:

  • Full-Year and Semester 1 courses: 12 pm (noon) on Friday, 26 September 2025
  • Semester 2 courses: 12 pm (noon) on Friday, 23 January 2026

 

**Important Information to read before submitting a course change request**

This form is only for incoming undergraduate visiting students on a Study Abroad/Exchange programme based in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CAHSS), or alternatively a College of Science and Engineering (CSE) visiting student requesting a course within CAHSS.

  • Course change requests are processed on a first-received, first-processed basis, and there is no guarantee of receiving a place in a specific course.
  • Visiting Students must be enrolled on a full course load of 60 credits per semester (120 credits per academic year) unless their home university has approved a reduced course load of 40 credits. This means that if you are currently enrolled in 60 credits, you will be required to remove course(s) from your enrolments in order to add additional courses. 
  • You will only be enrolled to courses for which you meet the academic pre-requisites and the English language requirements.  You can find out the specific requirements of a course through the Course Finder.  
  • You should check the course timetable before you make a course change request.  You can use PATH to build a timetable and see which courses fit together timetable wise.  However, please be aware that not all courses shown on PATH is available to visiting students.  For visiting students, PATH is only a timetable building tool and is not linked to your actual course enrolments.
  • If there are several tutorial group options for a course, you will be automatically allocated to a tutorial group that will fit with your timetable by the Timetabling Department.  This allocation will take place at the start of the semester.
  • For subject specific exchange students, you are expected to take two-thirds of your credits within the relevant subject area of your exchange agreement.  If your course change request does not meet the terms of your exchange agreement, we may have to refuse your request.
  • This form cannot be used to request to audit a course. 

The Course Change Request Form is available below.  Before submitting a course change request, please make sure to review the information about popular subject areas; how to view which courses you are currently enrolled in; and what happens after you submit a course change request.

Once you have reviewed the information above, please fill out the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Course Change Request Form completely and accurately.  We will be unable to process your course change request if you provide incomplete or incorrect information.  To help you complete the form, please read our Course Change Request Guide:  

Links to the Course Change Request Form: 

CAHSS Course Change Request Form

DIRECT URL LINK:   https://edin.ac/35hjeMK

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If you would like us to re-evaluate your eligibility or have any questions about the courses you can take, please email us at CAHSSVisitingStudents@ed.ac.uk.