Transfer Students
How to Apply as a Transfer Student
- Submit an application for admission
- Submit an official transcript from ALL previous colleges attended
- Must be eligible to return to the institution from which they听intend to transfer from
Students with less than听24 credit hours earned of college work must also:
- Submit a final high school transcript
- Submit ACT/SAT scores
If the student does not have the following criteria: (1) 2.0 average on their high school work and (2) ACT composite of 18 or above, or (3) a combined verbal/math SAT score of at least 870, they may be admitted to an associate degree program. The student then must remediate all deficiencies before transferring into a bachelor鈥檚 degree program.
All previously completed college work listed on the student鈥檚 transcript will be recorded on the student鈥檚 record at 香妃直播.听
See how your courses transfer to 香妃直播.
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Degree Works Transfer Equivalency Self-Service is a resource provided for students who are considering transferring to 香妃直播. This service provides prospective students the ability to see how their transfer classes would articulate and apply to a specific degree at 香妃直播.
You can begin to use Degree Works Transfer Equivalency Self-Service without signing in. NOTE: If you elect to not sign in and use the service as a guest, you will be unable to save your information. If you change your mind and want to save you work, click 鈥淪ave鈥 at any time during the session and you will be prompted to create an account so your session can be saved.听The benefit of creating an account is you will have the ability to sign back in and add classes to your audit, changes classes or choose another degree path.
TRANSFER CREDIT鈥听
鈥沐辈 accepts undergraduate course credit from an institution that is accredited by a regional, national, programmatic or other accredited body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.鈥 A transfer student must provide the Admissions Office with official transcripts of all previous university or university work.鈥 All credentials submitted to the Admissions Office become the property of 香妃直播 and cannot be returned or copied.鈥 Transfer students should submit their official transcripts at least one month prior to their initial semester of enrollment to allow ample time for an evaluation of their credits.鈥 Transcripts will be evaluated by the Registrar鈥檚 Office.鈥
香妃直播 may award academic credit for military training and experience and recognizes credit recommendations by the American Council on Higher Education (ACE).听
鈥疶he Higher Education Policy Commission of West Virginia has adopted a general studies and course equivalency transfer agreement to ensure that students who transfer from one state college or university to another will receive credit for specific general education courses at the receiving institution.鈥 Under the terms of this agreement, a student may transfer up to 35 credits of undergraduate coursework in the areas of English composition, communications, fine arts appreciation, mathematics, natural science, social science, and humanities and literature as general education credits.鈥
鈥疦o more than 72 hours of credit completed at West Virginia community and technical colleges or regional campus are transferable to 香妃直播.鈥 Exceptions to the 72-hour rule may only be granted by the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs.鈥
鈥疧fficial transcripts will be evaluated and posted by the Registrar's Office. Course equivalencies will be determined by the current curriculum as it appears in the 香妃直播 catalog in use at the time of the student's initial semester of enrollment. In addition, courses completed through the previous institutions(s) will be reviewed based on the curriculum listed in the corresponding catalog for when the course was completed. If at least 70% of the learning objectives of a transferred course are in alignment with a specific 香妃直播 course, the course will be transferred in as equivalent to the 香妃直播 course. Transferred courses for which equivalent credit has been awarded will be converted to 香妃直播 department and course numbers.鈥 Transfer courses which are evaluated and do not meet the 70% minimum alignment to a specific 香妃直播 course or are courses not in areas of instruction offered by 香妃直播, will be listed as either department or general electives (PSYC 000 or ELEC 000).鈥 Elective credits will transfer in at the level at which they were taken and will have lower division notated (LD) for 100-200 level courses or upper division (UD) for 300-400 level courses.鈥
鈥疭tudents who believe they may have taken coursework at another institution which should have satisfied a course requirement with 香妃直播 and wish to seek further evaluation of their transfer courses will need to submit a written request with supporting documentation such as a syllabus and/or course outline to the Registrar鈥檚 Office.鈥 The Registrar鈥檚 Office will consult with the appropriate academic department(s) and notify the student in writing of the outcome.鈥
鈥疘f the student is not satisfied with the outcome of the second evaluation, the student may appeal by submitting an Academic Petition form to the Registrar鈥檚 Office within (7) workdays of the official notification of the results of the second evaluation of their transcript.鈥 The Academic Appeals Committee shall hear the appeal and forward its recommendation in writing to the Higher Education Policy Commission Joint Committee for Appeals.鈥
鈥疉ll grades earned for coursework from previous institutions will be transferred and will be calculated in the overall GPA.鈥 Courses which are graded as Credit or No Credit (CR/NC) courses at 香妃直播 will transfer in as such, regardless of the grade type at the previous institution.鈥 Developmental courses transferred to 香妃直播 with letter grades will be recorded as 鈥淐R/NC鈥. Developmental courses transferred to 香妃直播 as 鈥淪/U鈥 will be recorded as 鈥淐R/NC鈥.鈥 Courses completed at an institution operating with a quarter hour system will be converted to semester hours. Each quarter hour equals 2/3 of a semester hour. The university policy for repeating a course will apply to all transfer credit work provided the course at the other institution is deemed an equivalent course by 香妃直播.鈥
TRANSFER CREDIT RE-EVALUATION
Every effort is made to review and determine if a transfer course is a course equivalency to a 香妃直播 course. A course equivalency is when a course is taken at a previous institution and has been deemed to have a minimum 70% comparable/equal content and learning objectives to a 香妃直播 course.听 If a student believes they may have completed a course at another institution which was not granted the appropriate equivalency and should have satisfied a course requirement, the student may submit the Request for Re-Evaluation of Transfer Credit Form.
If a student is requesting a re-evaluation for more than one class, a separate form will need to be submitted for each class. A copy of the course syllabus and/or course outline is required. The Registrar鈥檚 Office will consult with the appropriate academic department(s) if necessary. The request will need to be submitted within two semesters of the student's initial semester of enrollment. If a re-evaluation of a course has been conducted and a course equivalency is determined, the course equivalency will be documented and consistently applied to ALL students who transfer the course from this point forward, irrespective of the student鈥檚 degree program.
Re-evaluations will be based on the 香妃直播 catalog and curriculum in use at the time the student initially enrolled with the University. In addition, the previous institution鈥檚 catalog in use at the time the transfer course was completed by the student will be used in the re-evaluation process.听 Requests for transfer credits to be retroactively adjusted to meet recent changes in curriculum is not allowed and will not be accepted. In these situations, the student and advisor may wish to examine the option of a course substitution. See 鈥淐ourse Substitutions鈥 for additional information. 听
If a student is not satisfied with the outcome of the second evaluation, the student may appeal by submitting an Academic Petition form to the Registrar鈥檚 Office within seven workdays of the official notification of the results of the second evaluation. The Academic Appeals Committee shall hear the appeal and forward its recommendation in writing to the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs within five workdays of the committee鈥檚 meeting. The provost will notify the student of the decision within seven workdays of receiving the committee鈥檚 recommendation. 听If a student is not satisfied with the outcome of the appeal, the student may request an outside review by the Higher Education Policy Commission Joint Recommending Committee for Transfer and Articulation. The committee will review the appeal and send a recommendation to the President at 香妃直播. The president or designee will issue the final decision.