Registration & Records

All currently enrolled students register online through SAIC Self-Service. Class schedules, course descriptions, enrollment appointments, and registration should be accessed via SAIC Self-Service. Course offerings, descriptions, and links to faculty profiles are available via our online course search. As always, students may register at their specific enrollment time or anytime thereafter. Assistance from the Registrar’s Office will be available from 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m., Monday–Friday. Students who have taken off a spring or fall semester must first see an academic advisor prior to registration.

Students may register during their priority registration time or at any time thereafter, until the end of the add/drop period.

You must meet all outstanding financial obligations before the advance registration period to be eligible to register for classes.

Students with outstanding balances or “holds” from student accounts, the library, media center, wood shop, photo shop, metal shop, etc. will not be permitted to advance register. Students should check for any outstanding holds through SAIC Self-Service.

Please have the following information ready when requesting a transcript:

• Name you attended school under (married students, please include your former name)
• Dates of attendance
• Birthdate
• Social Security number (optional)
• Student ID number
• Number of copies you need
• Addresses where the copies will be sent

If you need alternate ways to request a transcript, please email saic.registrar@saic.edu.

Transcript Fees

*Service charge of $2.50 is included in above pricing.

The Federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) is a Federal privacy law that gives students certain rights with regard to their own education records, such as the right to inspect and review their own records. To protect a student’s privacy, the law generally requires schools to ask for written consent from the student before disclosing personally identifiable information from that student’s records to others. However, FERPA does permit schools to disclose student information without consent under limited circumstances (referred to as exceptions). For example, student information may be disclosed as "directory information" or in response to a health or safety emergency (see below).

On some occasions, a student may wish to give SAIC permission to share information from his or her education records with specific individuals. For example, it is often beneficial to the student for SAIC staff and faculty to be able to discuss student information with a parent, guardian, spouse, or other support person. You may, at your discretion, give SAIC faculty and staff permission to release personally identifiable information to a third party (e.g., a parent/guardian, emergency contact, spouse, or potential employer) by providing written consent. You may use the ‌FERPA Student Authorization to Release Information Form‌.

Please return the completed form to the Director of Registration and Records. By completing and returning this form, you consent to SAIC's disclosure of information from your student records to the person that you designate on the form.

FERPA affords you certain rights with respect to your education records. These rights include:

1. The right to inspect and review your education records within 45 days after the day SAIC receives a request for access from you. You should submit, to the Director of Registration and Records, a written request that specifically identifies the record(s) you wish to inspect. The Director of Registration and Records will make arrangements for access and notify you of the time and place where the records may be inspected. To make this request, you may use the FERPA Student Request for Records Form‌, available from the Director of Registration and Records.

2. The right to request the amendment of your education records if you believe them to be inaccurate. You should submit any such request in writing to the Director of Registration and Records. You must clearly identify the part of the record you want changed and specify why it should be changed. SAIC will notify you of its decision. If SAIC decides not to amend the record as requested, SAIC will notify you of your right to a hearing re­garding your request for amendment. Additional information regarding the hearing procedures will be provided to you at that time.

3. The right to provide written consent before SAIC discloses personally identifiable information from your education records, except to the extent that FERPA authorizes disclosure without con­sent. To provide written consent to a disclosure, you may use the FERPA Student Authorization to Release Information Form, available from the Director of Registration and Records. Return the completed form to the Director of Registration and Records.

Legitimate Educational Interests: Another exception allows for disclosure to school officials with legitimate educational interests. A school official is a person employed by SAIC in an administrative, supervisory, academic, research, or support staff position (including law en­forcement unit personnel and health staff); a person serving on the board of trustees; or a student serving on an official committee, such as a student conduct board meeting. A school official also may include a volunteer or contractor outside of the SAIC who performs an institutional service of function for which SAIC would otherwise use its own employees and who is under the direct control of SAIC with respect to the use and maintenance of personally identifiable information from education records, such as an attorney, auditor, or collection agent or a student volunteering to assist another school official in performing his or her tasks. A school official has a legitimate educational interest if the official needs to review an educa­tion record in order to fulfill his or her professional responsibilities for the SAIC.

Upon request, SAIC also discloses education records without consent to offi­cials of another school in which a student seeks or intends to enroll. More information on these and other exceptions is available on the Family Policy Compliance Office's FERPA web page.

4. The right to file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education concerning alleged failures by SAIC to comply with the requirements of FERPA. The name and address of the Office that administers FERPA is: Family Policy Compliance Office, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, DC  20202.