Many colleges and univeristies offer transfer services and information from listing transfer articultion agreements to posting course equivalencies they have previously negotiated and approved. One of the most common practices in higher education is to require transfer students to apply first before prior learning is reviewed to see what course work will transfer. The reason this is often required is the cost involved in doing the review. From our perspective, we would like to recruit institutions who wish to help students decide on their transfer pathway prior to enrollment by using the automated tools we have built to support your online transfer evaluation. If you are contemplatng transfer and don't see the school in our database or if we do not show their equivalencies, please let us know. We will work hard to contact each school and recruit them to join our network of other transfer friendly institutions.
Before you contemplate transfer, prepare yourself. That means, collect your transcripts and course materials. Often, when an institution reviews transfer courses, they must determine the level of rigor and difficulty compared to their course offerings. This is called developing course equivalencies. If you are contemplating a major program of study or changing your program of study, courses that are more specific are often those hardest to obtain credit for. Retain your textbooks where possible. If you can show your academic advisor evidence the course covers content similar to other courses that you may be required to take, having evisdence will help your cause.
Transfer also involves a term called articulation. This is the process that takes prior learning and determines whether the course work fits requirements for a major course of study. If you are majoring in Business Marketing now and took courses for Health Care Marketing, you would think most courses would transfer. The trap transfer students often fall into are having too many courses of one subject area that satisfies core requirements and not enough to satisfy other requirements. Often, this forces courses to be viewed as electives and you could have too many of those as well. The best suggestion is to not focus on the major course of study in the first place if you are trying to maximize transfer credits. Finishing your degree requirements should be your priority. Often students infer designating a major course of study is the entry door to a career. So often, if you survey friends and familty who have graduated from college and are now working, you will find so many not working in their field of study. This is because the field of study should be viewed as evidence you can apply yourself and master the subject matter rather than the literal interpretation that you must major in a subject in order to get a job in such an area. Of course, these are generalizations. Meet with your advisors. Talk with your friends. Ask us if you need independent advice.
We hope you will find the information we are posting on this website useful. If you have suggestions, please let us know. We will take every suggestion serious and research how we can serve transfer students.