Force-Add

What is Force-Adding?

Force-adding is an administrative process that allows the department offering the course to place students into courses they cannot add themselves. A common reason for a force add is unprocessed transfer credit for pre-requisite courses students have taken at other institutions. Force-adds will not be considered for instructor preference or time convenience.

The department offering the course determines if and how force-adding will be completed. If you are force-added you will not have the ability to change a course section on your own. Force-add information for each engineering department and several non-engineering departments can be found below.

Engineering Courses

AOE - Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
BMES - Biomedical Engineering and Sciences 
BSE - Biological Systems Engineering: Email Priscilla Baker (bseadvising@vt.edu)
BC - Building Construction
CEE- Civil and Environmental Engineering
CEM - Construction Engineering and Management
CHE - Chemical Engineering: Email Jeremy Wilson (wilsonjb@vt.edu)
CS - Computer Science
ECE - Electrical and Computer Engineering
ENGE - Engineering Education
ENGR - Engineering: Request permission from course instructor.
ESM - Engineering Science and Mechanics: Summer Force-Adds  |   Fall Force-Adds
ISE - Industrial and Systems Engineering
ME - Mechanical Engineering
MINE - Mining Engineering: Email Michelle Crotto (mcrotto@vt.edu)
MSE - Materials Science and Engineering: Email Michelle Czamanske (mseadvising@vt.edu) no earlier than the week before classes begin.
NSEG - Nuclear Science and Engineering

Additional Courses (i.e. Pathways, BIOL, CHEM, ENGL, MATH, PHYS, STAT, etc)

If a course is not on the Fall 2025 Force-Add List, check with the course instructor to see if force-adding is an option and the procedures for force-add.