Yale College (undergraduate) courses (i.e., courses numbered between 100-499 only). First-year and Residential College Seminars are not open to auditors.

To audit a course in one of Yale’s graduate or professional schools (i.e., courses numbered 500-999), contact that school’s Registrar directly to inquire about their auditing procedures. The Yale Alumni Auditing Program offers access to undergraduate courses only.

Yes. Your course instructor must sign your auditing form before you may begin auditing. [In lieu of a written signature, you may instead forward the instructor’s email approval when you submit the form.] Once you obtain the instructor’s approval, email the completed form to academic.affairs@yale.edu. Please note that instructors may set their own auditing policies, and that some accept auditors, while others do not.

The Yale College Programs of Study contains a detailed description of the courses offered in Yale College. Online listings are available through Yale Course Search.

Auditors do not earn course credits. If you wish to take classes for credit, please consider applying to the Non-Degree Students Program.

Persons auditing courses with limited laboratory or computer facilities must secure the explicit permission of the instructor to do so, and should understand that regularly enrolled students must at all times have priority in using such facilities. Computer or language laboratory facilities should be employed by auditors only during times when they are not in heavy demand, and in certain courses charges for computer use may be necessary. General access to the campus computing network may not be available to auditors.

It is the usual expectation that an auditor does not take tests or examinations or write papers for a course for evaluation by the instructor. Occasionally, however, an auditor may wish to do such work and may request the instructor to evaluate it. If the instructor wishes to cooperate with the auditor in this way, the instructor does so on a voluntary basis and not as an obligation.

The University Registrar’s Office does not keep a record of courses audited. It is not possible, therefore, for a student’s transcript to show that a course has been audited, or for a transcript to be issued that records the auditing of a course.

No; there are no auditing privileges in Yale Summer Session.