Enrolment

Study plans outline the courses required to achieve your degree, and are available for all programs offered in the Faculty of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences (ECMS). You should use your study plan as a guide when enrolling to ensure you enrol in the correct courses, in the right order.

Find my study plan

If you’re a new international student, you may need an adjusted study plan taking account of any credit you’ve received for previous studies, or English language course requirements. You can learn how to make these adjustments at an ECMS Enrolment Session—we hold them at the beginning of each semester—or contact us at Ask ECMS.

If you’re undertaking the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) – Engineering Pathway program, you’ll need to enrol in the courses from your engineering degree of choice. Use the Engineering Pathway Study Plan to help you select your courses. Or, if you’re unsure, contact Ask ECMS.

If you’ve completed study at another university or institution, you can apply for credit towards your University of Adelaide degree.

Apply for credit

All ECMS degrees have prerequisites. If you haven’t completed those applying to your degree prior to university, you’ll need to enrol in our bridging courses.

For those who haven’t completed Specialist Mathematics

If you haven’t completed Specialist Mathematics at high school, you must enrol in the following bridging courses in the order listed:

1. MATHS 1013 Mathematics IM (Semester 1)
2. MATHS 1011 Mathematics IA (Semester 2)
3. MATHS 1012 Mathematics IB (Summer School)

The exception is if you’re studying undergraduate Computer Science. In that case you can choose to complete either:

MATHS 1011 Mathematics IA and MATHS 1012 Mathematics IB 

Or

MATHS 1008 Mathematics for Information Technology.

A full-time enrolment can be achieved by enrolling in the other courses required for the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) degree you’re intending to transfer into. Follow the Engineering Pathway Study Plan to guide the rest of your enrolments.

If you’re a domestic student you can choose to study full- or part-time. Anything less than 9 units per semester is considered part-time.

If you’re an international student you must complete your degree according to the duration specified in your Confirmation of Enrolment (CoE). It’s expected you’ll be enrolled full-time in order to complete your degree on time. At the beginning of semester, International Student Support (ISS) will contact all students who are under-enrolled, but it remains your responsibility to ensure you’re correctly enrolled. Please contact ISS for any student visa-related enquiries.

There are three common problems that can prevent you enrolling successfully: timetable clashes; study unit overload; and full classes.

Timetable clash

This error message appears when the class you’re trying to enrol in has a time conflicting with another class you’ve already enrolled in. The timetable clash will cause the enrolment to fail, and Access Adelaide will display a 10-digit Enrolment Request ID Number (0006______) at the top right-hand side of the screen.

If this happens to you, please enter this number in the following form and submit:

• Timetable Clash Resolution Form

Unit overload

If you wish to enrol in more than 15 units in a semester, you’ll need to seek approval. Approval for a unit overload is based on previous academic performance and takes into consideration your future study pathways. The attempted overload will cause the enrolment to fail, and Access Adelaide will display a 10 digit Enrolment Request ID Number (0006______) at the top right hand side of the screen.

Please enter this number, and your reasons for the overload, in the following form and submit:

• Unit Overload Form

Please note that it’s your responsibility to manage your workload if an overload request is approved.

Class full

Once classes are open for enrolment, students enrol in classes on a 'first come, first served' basis. Popular class times fill up quickly, so we suggest that you enrol as soon as possible to maximise your chances of a suitable timetable. You can enrol in semester 2 courses at the start of the year.

If a class is full, you won’t be able to find it in Access Adelaide. If you are unable to enrol because all classes in a course are full, please lodge a request for consideration using the following form: 

• Class Full Form

Please note that, due to occupational health, safety and welfare requirements, you cannot be enrolled in classes where the maximum room capacity has already been reached.

If your Class Full enquiry relates to a course, or courses, outside the ECMS faculty, such as ENTREP, ECON, ACCT etc., please forward your enquiry to the relevant faculty office. For e.g. a PHYSICS course enquiry should be forwarded to the Faculty of Sciences, and an ENTREP course enquiry should be forwarded to the Faculty of the Professions.

If you think you’re ready to enrol, here’s how to get started.