Important Registration Information

Summer and Fall 2021

Make the most of your summer break by taking a class during one of our upcoming summer sessions.  We offer a full selection of accelerated online undergraduate and graduate courses.

Here are some of the many advantages:

• Stay on track or get ahead on your degree program.  Undergraduate students may be eligible for financial assistance through the Student Success Assistance Program.  For more information including eligibility requirements, contact Jennifer Herrmann in the Griff Center at 888-2524.
• Start and finish in just five or six weeks
• Select from a wide variety of courses taught by distinguished Canisius faculty
• Fully online courses

Registration Information for Summer and Fall 2021:
The schedule of classes and undergraduate Advisement Guide now appear online.

REGISTRATION FOR Summer 2021: 

Begins at 8:30 am on Monday, March 8, 2021 for all students. PIN numbers are not needed for summer registration.

GRADUATE STUDENT REGISTRATION FOR Fall 2021: 

Begins at 8:30 am on Monday, March 15, 2021.  Graduate students DO NOT need PIN numbers to register.

UNDERGRADUATE REGISTRATION FOR Fall 2021:

• Begins Tuesday, March 23^rd for students with 72 or more earned credit hours
• Begins Tuesday, March 30^th for students with 42-71.9 earned credit hours
• Begins Tuesday, April 6^th for students with 0-41.9 earned credit hours

To prepare your fall schedule you should:

• Run your GriffAudit and review your remaining degree requirements.
• Check your Student Profile to ensure that you do not have a hold which will prevent registration
• Review the course offerings to work out a preliminary schedule, and create a registration plan. This is important to ensure you make the best use of your meeting with your advisor.
• For information on viewing and searching the fall 2021 schedule, please refer to the "Fall 2021 Advisement Guide" available in MyCanisius under the "Schedule and Registration" section of the left-hand navigation bar.
• Schedule an appointment to meet with your advisor to review your course selections.  You should also use this time with your advisor to discuss your career goals and opportunities for the major, as well as clubs and events that may interest you.
• Your advisor will give you your registration PIN which you will need in order to register.
• You will get a message in MyCanisius about registration one week prior to your scheduled registration day.

Important Registration Information!!

The Student Profile will be utilized to look up classes, prepare registration plans ahead of your registration date, and to register for classes. The Student Profile also provides you with a user and mobile friendly view of the biographical and academic information that is on your student record. Training documentation can be found on the portal by clicking the "Learn about Student Profile" button under the My Campus heading. By building registration plans ahead of time, you are able to discuss them with your advisor, and registering from a plan is quick and easy! In addition, you can create multiple plans in order to have backup options quickly available to you.

Registration Process

• To register for classes on your registration Tuesday, login to the MyCanisius portal.

Please do not wait until 7:30 am to start the login process. You can login to the portal as early as 20 minutes prior to the 7:30 am start. For security purposes, the time out period is set for 30 minutes. If you login too early, your login will time out.

• Under the "MY CAMPUS" heading on the right side select the "Student Profile" button
• Select "Registration and Schedule" from the left hand side
• Select "Register for Classes"
• Select "Fall 2021" from the drop down list, and click Continue
• Enter your Registration PIN
• Registration begins at 7:30 am
• DO NOT go any further until 7:30 am or you will get an error message stating: "You are not permitted to register at this time"
• At 7:30 am continue with your registration by searching for courses, and adding them to your summary; you can also add courses to your summary by entering your CRN numbers on the "Enter CRNs" tab.

Registering from a Plan:

• The quickest way to register is to register directly from a plan created ahead of time;
• To register from a previously created plan, click on the "Plans" tab, click "Add All" to add the courses from a specific plan to your summary, and click "Submit."

IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO CLICK SUBMIT! If you leave this page, without clicking Submit, your registration will NOT be saved.

• Review your classes and resolve any registration errors as listed in the top right hand corner.
• The Student Records & Financial Services Center and the Griff Center will be open beginning at 7:00 am on each registration Tuesday.  If you have any questions or problems, please call 716-888-2600 or visit us in Bagen Hall, Room 106.

The Student Records & Financial Services Center office hours and contact information.
Office Hours:  Monday - Friday 8:30-5pm

Do you need to speak or meet with one of our SRFS Center specialists?
Visit the SRFS On-Line Help Center (click here) 

Please contact us:
-By calling 716.888.2600.  If all specialists are busy, please leave a detailed message including your student ID number and a staff member will respond to you shortly. (Please Note: returned calls may come from a restricted  #)
-By e-mailing or scanning documents to us at studentservices@canisius.edu
-By mail:  Canisius College
Student Records and Financial Services Center
2001 Main Street
Buffalo NY 14208

​Remember to visit us on-line.  Log into your myCanisius and under the Launchpad section go to Schedule and Registration or Financial Services.