To become a fully registered Durham student, you'll need to complete our Enrolment and Registration process. There are three elements to Enrolment and Registration:
International students may need their VISA and passport checked by our University Immigration Service to complete their Right to Study check. This is a separate process to Identity Verification and must be completed to become a registered student with Durham University. Once you've enrolled with the University, you'll be able to access information about the Right to Study check here.
Once we have reviewed and approved the evidence you uploaded to the Postgraduate Portal to demonstrate that you've met the conditions of your offer, we'll need to assign you a college and progress your application to the status of Admissions Record Finalised. You will then be invited to enrol with the University. During busy periods it may take a couple of weeks for you to be given a college allocation and for us to progress your application, so please be patient.
When we're ready for you to enrol with the University, we will send two emails to the personal email address you provided on your application. The first email contains your IT account username. The second email explains how to derive your password. The emails will be sent 24 hours apart, from no.reply@durham.ac.uk. Be sure to regularly check your junk folder for these emails.
Once you receive both emails:
As soon as you've updated your password and set-up multi-factor authentication, you need to log into Banner Self Service and enrol with the University.
Enrolling with the University involves confirming your personal details in Banner (our student records system) are correct, letting us know your address, emergency contact and agreeing to the University's terms and conditions. You will need to:
It is essential you complete Enrolment as soon as possible, or there may be an impact on the following:
If you are a new student, you will need to upload a photograph of yourself during Enrolment. The photograph will be used on your campus card, which can be collected from your college when you arrive in Durham, provided you have uploaded the photograph by 13th September.
When you receive your username and password by email, upload your photograph:
Your photograph needs to be in the following format:
If you are unable to upload your photo by 13th September, you can do so after, but this will slow the process of getting your campus card. Find out more about campus cards on our Computing and Information Services (CIS) webpages.
Most Postgraduate Research students will have the Programme and Module Registration element of Banner Self Service ticked when you first log in. If Banner Self Service shows this section as not complete, please get in touch with your Department, who will be able to advise you on the most appropriate 'optional modules' for your programme.
To complete Module Registration you need to:
When you arrive in Durham, you'll need to confirm your identity with your College; we call this Verification. Even if you aren't going to be living in your College, you will need to confirm your identity there to get your campus card. We accept the following documents as proof of identity:
If you are a UK student and you do not have any of these forms of identification, we will accept your original Birth Certificate.
If you need to open a bank account or apply for Council Tax exemption, you can print off the required letters in Banner Self Service, once you've completed Enrolment and Registration.
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