New Student Registration Form to gain access to the BTI Consortium Portal. Once you have submitted the form, your information and eligibility is confirmed by your home registrar and a BTI Consortium Portal account is created for you automatically. You will receive your username and password via email immediately.
*Note: you MUST use your .edu address to register as a BTI Consortium student, and you only have to register to be a BTI student once. If you do not use your .edu email to register, your application will be denied.

Check your spam! Did you use your .edu address to register? (If not, it was auto-rejected). If you still cannot find your confirmation, email btioffice@bostontheological.org to check.

Email btioffice@bostontheological.org and we can send you your log-in information (username and password). HINT: your BTI username is formatted like an email address, e.g. smith@bostontheological.org

No, unfortunately, cross-registration is only for students enrolled in graduate programs at one of the BTI Consortium member schools.

Yes! Cross-registration is a benefit paid for by your school tuition - just pay as you normally do, no extra fees involved. You can take classes at any of the member schools during Fall and Spring semesters. Sometimes, J-term (January) and A-term (August) condensed courses are included. Right now, Summer session is not included.

The number of courses you can register for depends on your school and program. It's best to consult your Home Registrar or your program director for limits on cross-registration.

As soon as we have the complete course guide it will be posted online. Each year, we aim to post the next semester's course guide by mid-April (for Fall registration) and mid-November (for Spring registration). It will be posted on bticourses.org with full course descriptions and in a searchable Excel format.

Not every course at our member schools is eligible for BTI Consortium student cross registration. Each school decides which classes are available for cross registration, not the BTI Consortium. To find approved courses, always look at the BTI Consortium course catalog, not the individual schools' registrar pages. Go to bticourses.org to see approved courses. Only the listed, approved BTI courses are available for cross-registration.

Registrar”?

Your “Home Registrar” is the Registrar’s Office that serves your school (e.g. School of Theology, Graduate Department of Religion in the College of Arts and Sciences, etc.). The “Host Registrar” is the Registrar’s Office that serves the department of the course you want to take. A list of links to all BTI Consortium member schools’ registrars and their contact information is found on the "Cross Registration" page of this site.

Once your request for cross-registration (by filling out the New Student Form) has been approved by your school's registrar, you will receive a second email notifying you that you are eligible to cross register through our portal. And check your spam!  If you still cannot find your confirmation, email btioffice@bostontheological.org to check.
Note: This only happens once, after you register for the first time as a BTI Consortium student. Once you’ve been approved, the credentials given in your welcome email are valid for your entire time as a BTI Consortium Student.

Depending on the time of year, the BTI office may just be very busy. The busiest times of year are January and August/September. If you request a portal account during a weekend or holiday (e.g., Columbus Day Weekend, Thanksgiving Week, or the week between Christmas and New Year’s), there will be a longer wait. If more than five business days have passed since you submitted your request, email btioffice@bostontheological.org to follow-up.

If five business days have passed and you have not received notification from your Home Registrar regarding your New Student Registration Form, please reach-out to your Home Registrar.

No. Doctoral Seminars are deliberately small, specialized seminars for doctoral students. If you are a doctoral student at another BTI Consortium school and you would like to enroll in a doctoral seminar, there are a handful of seminars open to cross-registration.

In the portal, you MUST put in the course number correctly. Once you put it in correctly, the rest of the form will show up, auto-populated. If you are entering the course number incorrectly, or attempting to register for a course that is not approved, the portal will not allow you to continue. After you put in the course number correctly, you must fill out all required information and answer the required questions for the “submit” button to appear. *Note: If you think you have encountered an error and have tried these tips without avail, please email btioffice@bostontheological.org with the course number, title and your concern - screenshots of errors are super helpful as well!

Some BTI Consortium courses have prerequisites (languages, advanced courses in certain fields) while others require the professor’s permission. If a course requires the permission of the instructor, you must contact the professor directly to obtain permission. You must obtain professor approval BEFORE you attempt to cross-register. When you receive the approval, reply to the professor and CC both your home registrar and the host registrar. A list of the registrars is available on the "Cross Registration" page of this site. This ensures that when you register through the portal, both registrars will approve your request.

After you click submit, all confirmation and approval emails will come to the email address you provided in the New Student Registration Form (your .edu address). First, your home registrar approves your request, and then it is sent to the host registrar, who finalizes your request. At each step you should receive an email about the process (check your spam!). If you cannot find any of these communications, email btioffice@bostontheological.org and we can check on your status.

You must contact the registrar that denied your request (either your home registrar, or the registrar at the host school). Note: Just because a course is listed in the BTI catalogue, you are not guaranteed a seat. Just like any other course, they fill quickly, and it is up to the registrars and individual member schools to have final say.

Approval or denial of courses only comes from the registrars, not the BTI Consortium. Remember to check your spam/junk folders or any other filters you might have set up on your .edu address that you used to register as a BTI Consortium student.**Note for HDS cross-registration requests: HDS uses a "shopping period" in September/January for registration. You will not get a confirmation of approval or denial until that time. We strongly suggest contacting the instructor of the course (especially if it is a seminar [not lecture] course) prior to filing for cross-registration. Your registrars are aware of how HDS registers and will work with students in September/January should the need arise. Remember, no request to cross-register is complete or guaranteed until the process is approved by both home and host registrars.

A list of the registrars and their contact information is available HERE.

The deadline for cross-registration is the last day of add/drop at either the home or the host institution. Because you are enrolled at an institution outside of your home institution, there is some flexibility. However, please make sure that you make any schedule changes before the latest date at either the home or the host institution. The dates for the current semester are listed in your portal on the menu tab "Drop a Course."

It can be difficult to juggle two academic calendars. Before you cross-register, make sure you can commit to the schedules at both schools. Check out the list of academic calendars.

Sometimes BTI Consortium members offer A-term (August) and J-term (January) courses for cross-registration. You complete the request in the same process, with the approved course number (during Spring registration for Fall semester for A; Fall registration for the Spring semester for J). Right now, the BTI does not offer summer courses, as most of our member schools are not open fully in the summer session. That said, there are great opportunities like the Harvard Summer Language Program and Hartford Seminary's Online Summer Term! For Summer opportunities, we recommend contacting the Host school's registrar or the summer program director.

E-mail the BTI Office or contact your Registrar.