Provides information and services to prospective students, current students, parents, high school counsellors, and the public.
Service provides:
- information about the University of Alberta to prospective students, current students, parents, high school counsellors, and the public
- information about student financial support services for current and prospective students
Services for students include:
- administers, promotes, and disburses scholarships for incoming and continuing undergraduate students
- receives undergraduate applications for admission and collects all required documents in support of applications
- evaluates undergraduate applications for admission, and communicates admission or readmission decisions to applicants in conjunction with the faculties
- Maintains an accurate and complete record of each student's academic progress and provides official transcripts and certification of these records, consistent with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act of Alberta (FOIP) and the university's student record confidentiality policy
- provides online student services through Bear Tracks
- administers special registrations, including Open Studies
- confirms enrolment for student loan purposes
- collects, verifies, and records all final grades in credit courses
- assesses undergraduate and graduate tuition and general fees
- compiles course listings and develops a timetable of course offerings of all departments
- compiles a conflict-free timetable of examinations at the end of each session
- advice on deferred examinations, reexaminations, and credit by special assessment
- administers examinations for outside educational testing services (TSE, LSAT, MCAT) and for other universities and colleges
- University of Alberta Calendar containing admission requirements, academic regulations, schedules and deadlines, programs of study, degree and graduation requirements, course listings, and university codes of behavior, for both undergraduate and graduate students
- convocation services including ceremonies and production of degree parchments
- Special Sessions which includes Spring and Summer studies, evening credit, and off-campus programming
Services to the campus community include:
- undergraduate admission and student record policies
- special events such as career fairs, school visits, information evenings, and sessions for high school counsellors
- management of student record system
- listing of course offerings for each academic term
- classroom booking services
- timetable for final examinations
- collection, verification, and records all final grades in credit courses
- admission, enrolment, and awards statistics
- assessment of undergraduate and graduate tuition and general fees
- university scheduling and registration policies
- examination policies and grading procedures handbooks