Fall 2026 registration will begin opening for graduate students Monday, March 23 – April 15 and won’t open again until April 27, forward. Registration does not close for online students and will remain open. You can find your exact start time in myPurdue under “Registration Notices”. It is strongly advised that you register for courses during the initial window, ahead of undergraduates. Please review the attached Fall 2026 Registration Guide. Here are a few key reminders:

• Registration PINs: Your PINs are available at https://engineering.purdue.edu/BannerPin

• Plan of Study:  You may need to submit a plan of study in order to retrieve your PIN. If you don’t have a plan of study yet, or if you need to make changes to an existing plan, please get started on that now. A plan of study guide to help you submit the plan, the degree requirements guide, and course lists can all be found on our plan of study webpage.

It is YOUR responsibility to ensure you have a plan in place and are taking courses that have received approval. If you’re planning on taking any courses different than what is listed on your plan, you need to submit a change request. If you submitted a draft but have not heard back about it, please go ahead and submit it as final and we will review. If for any reason you cannot submit a plan as final, please reach out to us to see if we can work with you on receiving a PIN.

• Check for Holds: Check the holds section in your myPurdue to determine if there are any holds that will prevent you from registering. These registration holds are different than PIN hold. The most common holds are the following:
  • Financial Responsibility
  • Emergency Contact
  • Respect Boundaries training may need to be completed (should appear in your myPurdue)
  • You may need to submit your final transcripts and/or diploma from your previous institution to the Graduate School (have them sent directly from institution to gradadm@purdue.edu)

• Research Requests: We will be accepting AAE 698 and 699 research requests via email. Please do not respond to this aae-grad email with your request but instead send a separate request to aaegradoffice@purdue.edu with the details requested in the attached Registration Guide. You must copy your advisor on your request. Research requests for summer must be sent by noon on May 21, and fall requests by noon on August 28. Please note the difference in the CRNs between Summer (orange) and Fall (green).

If you will be conducting your research off-campus, you will need to submit a Form 19.

• Graduation:  To graduate in August or December 2026 you must be added to the candidate list by requesting to register for CAND 991 in the Scheduling Assistant by June 12 (August candidates), or by September 18 (December candidates).  This applies to all MS non-thesis, MS thesis, and PhD students intending to graduate. Any PhD and MS thesis students requesting degree-only candidacy (defend and/or deposit by an early mid-semester deadline) email aaegradoffice@purdue.edu. As a reminder, research students intending to graduate must also be in research hours.

Please reach out to the AAE Graduate Office if you have a question that isn’t answered here.