Degree Planner
Degree Planner is a degree planning tool which provides you with a personalized, pre-populated path to graduation. Your path contains a sequence of courses that you are encouraged to regularly adjust to accurately reflect your future plans.
Simplified Planning
Degree Planner automatically generates and updates your plan regularly based on your personal academic progress. It recognizes important factors, such as prerequisite and term typically offered information. You are able to view required courses in a clear visual map and seize the opportunity to manage your path to graduation.
Enhanced Registration Experience
Keeping your Degree Planner maintained will simplify registration as planned courses are automatically imported to Schedule Builder. Degree Planner and Schedule Builder are fully integrated tools that create a seamless user experience.
Improved course availability
Degree Planner improves course availability by providing valuable course demand data to Cal Poly. Maintaining an accurate plan improves your odds of getting your desired courses.
Resources
- Major Flowcharts and Curriculum Sheets
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Term Typically Offered Information
- Degree Planner Open Labs
When to Log In
To ensure that your planned courses are considered in course demand data for the upcoming terms, log into your plan regularly and keep it updated. We post login window deadlines which fall on the 8th business day of each term. Deadlines correspond with departmental planning dates, and we recommend that you regularly log into your plan and keep it updated.
Your accuracy helps you graduate on time, since Cal Poly can anticipate your plans and ensure that your academic needs are accommodated.
There are incentives for logging in regularly to ensure that your plans are accurate:
- Registration is simplified in Schedule Builder, which automatically imports your planned courses.
- Seat capacity is accurately adjusted by departments as they finalize their plans for upcoming terms.
- Course demand data is reliable when departments strategize future staffing needs.
- Communication is enabled; departments can proactively alert you regarding unforeseen upcoming course issues (term typically offered changes, staffing shortages, etc.).
Check important dates on the Course Demand Login Calendar (below) or the Office of the Registrar's Calendars and Deadlines page.
*If you plan to take a term off, adjust your term units to zero to signal that you will be away and complete the Undergraduate Informal Time Off form.
Course Demand Login Calendar
REMINDER: Degree Planner compliance enforcement has been suspended. Failing to log into Degree Planner before the "Login Window End" dates below will NOT result in a delayed registration appointment.
| YEAR | registration term | Login window Start | login window end (5:00 p.m.) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-2022 | Fall 2021 | January 14, 2021 | April 8, 2021 |
| Winter 2022 | April 9, 2021 | September 29, 2021 | |
| Spring 2022 | September 30, 2021 | January 12, 2022 | |
| 2022-2023 | Fall 2022 | January 13, 2022 | April 7, 2022 |
| Winter 2023 | April 8, 2022 | September 28, 2022 | |
| Spring 2023 | September 29, 2022 | January 19, 2023 |
Video Tutorials
New Degree Planner video tutorials will be available in the near future.