Spring 2025 Registration Begins In November!
The California Community Colleges Board of Governors has established system-wide registration priorities designed to ensure classes are available for students seeking job training, degree attainment, or transfer and to reward students who make progress toward their educational goals. MiraCosta College offers priority registration dates for students who matriculate, which includes completing the placement process, orientation, and a meeting with an academic counselor.
MiraCosta College sets student registration based on guidance from Title 5 Section 58108, which established a system of providing an equal and fair chance for all students to register for the classes they need throughout their college career. Please reference the Administrative Procedure 5055 for detailed information.
HOW TO VIEW YOUR REGISTRATION DATE & TIME
What is Priority Registration?
By completing priority registration through the onboarding steps, you may be eligible to register earlier for classes. Priority Registration is the best way to secure classes you need each semester.
How do you get Priority Registration?
How do you keep Priority Registration?
- Complete an Education Plan with an Academic Counselor within 2 semesters
- Maintain a good academic standing
- Maintain good academic standing with at least a 2.0 GPA
- Complete at least 50 percent of enrolled units
- Not exceed 100 degree-applicable units
What are registration groups?
MiraCosta College’s Registration Groups are broken into six categories. Each student is assigned an online registration date and time. Registration is assigned randomly within each group and start at 8 a.m. Students may register on their assigned date and time or any time after throughout the registration period. All students must check their SURF account to find their online registration date and time.
Understanding Priority Registration Groups
Each student is assigned an online registration date and time. MiraCosta College sets registration priorities based on guidance from Title 5 Section 58108.
Students in this group include:
- A member of the Armed Forces of the United States and who is a resident of California.
- A Veteran of the Armed Forces of the United States and who is a resident of California.
- A student parent who has a child or children under 18 years of age who will receive more than half of their support from that student.
- A foster youth or former foster youth who is not older than 25 years of age at the commencement of the academic year.
- Unhoused/homeless youth or former unhoused/homeless youth under 25 years of age at the commencement of the academic year.
- EOPS, CalWORKs/Tribal TANF, and Student Accessibility Services (SAS).
- Justice impacted students receiving services from the Transitions Scholars program.
To receive and maintain priority registration, new and continuing Group A students must do the following:
- Complete onboarding steps (placement process, orientation and advisement);
- Veterans and active-duty military must complete a comprehensive education plan within their first semester at MiraCosta. Others in Group A must complete an education plan within two semesters;
- Maintain good academic standing with at least a 2.0 GPA and complete at least 50 percent of enrolled units (excludes unhoused/homeless youth, former foster youth, and foster youth); and
- Not exceed 100 degree-applicable units. (Students in the bachelor of science in biomanufacturing degree program, homeless youth, foster youth, former foster youth, and SAS are exempt from the 100 unit limitation.)
Students in this group include:
- Athletes, International Students, BS Biomanufacturing Program, and students (continuing, new, and returning) who have completed the onboarding steps.
To receive and maintain priority registration, Group B students must do the following:
- Complete onboarding steps (placement process, orientation and advisement);
- Complete an education plan prior to completion of 15 units or third semester, whichever comes first;
- Maintain good academic standing with a 2.0 GPA or better;
- Complete at least 50 percent of enrolled units; and
- Not exceed 100 degree-applicable units. (Student in the bachelor of science in biomanufacturing degree program and unhoused/homeless youth, foster youth, former foster youth, and SAS are exempt from the 100 unit limitation).
All students who have not completed the onboarding steps and students who have already earned a bachelor’s degree.
Any student who has been on notice for at least two consecutive semesters, including students on academic notice (GPA-based) or progress notice (based on the percentage of courses completed with an evaluative grade).
Students who have completed more than 100 units with a grade of A, B, C, D, F, P or NP. Courses that are considered basic skills will not be counted toward the completion of units in this category although they will count toward accumulation of units in Groups B and C.
Concurrently enrolled high school students are restricted from registering early and may only register at the end of the registration period.
