Spring 2026 registration will begin opening for graduate students Monday, October 20 through November 20, and won’t open again until December 8, forward. You can find your exact registration start time in myPurdue under “Registration Notices”. The spring schedule will appear in myPurdue this coming Monday (Oct. 13)  but a view of the AAE offerings is included in the attached registration guide. It is strongly advised that you register for courses during the initial window, ahead of undergraduates. Please review the attached Spring 2026 Registration Guide. Here are a few key reminders:

• Registration PINs: Your PINs will soon be made available at https://engineering.purdue.edu/BannerPin

(Note: we do not currently use myPurdue for PIN distribution.)

• Plan of Study:  You may need to submit a plan of study 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 and is also attached to this email.

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 plan of study, 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 spring must be sent by noon on January 16th. If you will be conducting your research off-campus, you will need to submit a Form 19.

• Graduation:  To graduate in May 2026 you must be added to the candidate list by requesting to register for CAND 991 in the Scheduling Assistant by February 6, 2025.  This applies to all MS non-thesis, MS thesis, and PhD students intending to graduate. Any PhD and MS thesis students requesting exam-only candidacy (defend and 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.

I hope you all have a nice Fall Break!

Morgan Delaney
Graduate Program Administrator, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Pronouns: She/her/hers

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