Registration FAQs

Registration gathers your programme, personal and contact details, in addition to providing information on the university regulations. It has been designed as a form with a question on each page. To the left, you will find the section navigation with the different section headers. You can select the section headers to navigate to the desired sections. These section headers display the number of questions completed of the total questions in the section. Upon completing a question or section, you will see a tick mark next to the appropriate question or section, respectively.

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The centre of the screen presents the question with text boxes or other form fields required to answer the question. After answering each question you may either ‘Save & Continue’ to the next question to progress with the registration process, or ‘Save & Exit’ at the bottom of the question. Selecting ‘Save & Exit’ will provide you an option to then log out of registration. Alternatively, you may go back to the previous question by clicking on the ‘Back’ link available above the question.

Clicking on the ‘Save & Exit’ button in the registration application does NOT log you out of your university account. It will save your answers and take you to the exit screen. Once you select the ‘Save & Exit’ link, you may select to navigate back to ‘My student record’ or logout of the university applications using the buttons at the bottom of the screen. Please log out of the university applications after you are finished working on public machines.

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If your contact details change then it is highly recommended that you update these by going to MyEd > Accounts > Profile and Personal Details > Contact details. This allows the university to be able to support you during the term and in emergencies.

For changes to other personal details, please see our guidance on Making changes to your student record.

The Higher Education Statistics Agency Limited (HESA) collects and disseminates data about higher education to UK statutory bodies such as the Scottish Government, Department of Education and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). HESA is the designated data body of England and publish data on all aspects of the higher education sector. Under Section 22 of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 2005, higher education providers such as the University of Edinburgh are required to provide the Scottish Funding Council with information that is gathered by HESA and similar agencies.

More information on HESA.

Confirming your funding or arranging payment is a required step to complete your student registration. You can choose to:

• Pay in full

Find out what you will need to pay in full

• Set up an instalment plan

Check how to set up an instalment plan

• Confirm sponsorship, grant, or government funding details

Check what documents you need if you have a sponsorship, grant or government funding

If your funding or sponsorship does not cover the full amount, you will need to pay the remaining balance yourself (in full or in instalments).

If you have a sponsorship, grant or government funding that covers part or all of your fees, you may need to submit documents as evidence of your funding type before registering.

Check what documents you need if you have a sponsorship, grant or government funding

If the funding information on your record is missing or incomplete when you start your online student registration, you will be able to report the issue through the registration form.

If you are a new student and wish to change your programme of study, you must contact Admissions by emailing futurestudents@ed.ac.uk for further details.

If you are a continuing student, you should contact your School directly.

If you are a new student joining the programme, you may decline your offer to study in a programme by selecting this option within the registration application.

Declining your place on the programme will remove your place in it. Please note that once this option is selected you will not be able to reinstate your place on the programme. If you are accepted into multiple programmes you will need to decline your place in each programme separately.

If you are a continuing student and would like to withdraw from your studies, then please contact your School directly.

Your start date is based on the offer of admission and the end date is based on the duration of study and whether Full or Part time. If you believe that the programme details are incorrect, please contact Admissions by emailing futurestudents@ed.ac.uk.

If you already know your named contact in the School, this could be your Student Support Team, Student Adviser, Programme Director or Supervisor, you should contact this person to discuss your programme details.

You will be able to discuss your course selection with your school contact. If you already know your named contact in the School, this could be your Student Support Team, Student Adviser, Cohort Lead, Programme Director or Supervisor, you should contact this person to discuss your course details.

You can view course options in Path, which is a visual course selection and programme builder tool to aid course choice. Path allows students to consider their degree pathway, review outside course choices where relevant, understand co-requisites and prerequisites and generate a timetable.  For some Schools, you can pre-select course choices and send to your Student Support Team or Student Adviser to aid the discussion around course choice.