Undergraduate Academic Advising

Your academic advisor provides resources, guidance, and support along your academic journey. Our professionals will help you explore, define, and develop an educational plan so you can achieve your goals. 

Learn More About the Advising Process

Academic Advising Sessions

All CJS Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors must attend an Academic Advising Session each semester. The session you register for depends on the number of credit hours you have completed - so you'll go by the number of hours you completed at the end of last semester, not including classes for this semester.

Advanced Registration
Student populations who are eligible for advance registration include:  Honors, military, ROTC, student athletes, student workers, and those with accommodations through Student Access and Accommodation Services for advanced registration. Choose CJS Advanced Registration Advising from the dropdown menu.

Senior Sessions
(students with 90+ completed hours)
Virtual             In-Person

Junior Sessions
(students with 60-89 completed credit hours)
Virtual             In-Person

Sophomore Sessions
(students with 24-59 completed credit hours)
Virtual             In-Person

Please note that you may not get into your first choice session. If you get a message saying there are no appointments available, the sessions are full. If there are no more virtual appointments left, you have to go to an in-person session, and vice-versa.

Drop-in Advising

Drop-ins are for questions about your fall schedule, swapping or dropping classes, personal issues, military obligations, etc. Drop-ins are not for future course planning.

PLEASE BE AWARE THAT IF YOU JOIN THE QUEUE OUTSIDE OF DROP-IN TIMES, YOUR SIGN-IN WILL BE CANCELED.

Academic Advisor:

Find Information in My.IllinoisState.edu

Many of your questions about your academic journey can be found by logging into your My.IllinoisState.edu account and viewing the Student Center. Information located here includes:

• Scheduling classes
• Required hours for graduation
• General education requirements
• Criminal Justice Sciences elective requirements
• Class registration, including when to register and reasons you might not be able to register