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Transfer Students

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For a transfer student at the undergraduate level, admissions to the University is governed by the following standards:

1. The transfer applicant must not presently be on probation at the last or current school of attendance and must submit the required Confidential Statement Form.
2. The transfer applicant has not been suspended or dropped from the last or current institution.
3. The transfer applicant has a cumulative average of at least a “C” in the institution from which transferring and is eligible to return to that institution.
4. Leadership and service opportunities. Evidence of participation in scholastic, community and civic organizations including leadership participation.

Requirements:
Transfer students who have attended another college or university, but have earned less than twenty-four (24) semester hours of specific acceptable credit

Must meet all freshmen requirements. However, applicants for transfer students may be exempt from freshman requirements and from sending high school transcripts and/or standardized test scores who fall under the following categories:

Category 1: Applicants who were awarded the high school diploma prior to 1988 and/or are at least twenty four (24) years old prior to the beginning of classes and have completed twenty-four (24) semester hours of degree creditable work.

Category 2: Applicants who have the associate of arts, the associate of science, or the associate of fine arts, the baccalaureate or any higher level degree.

Category 3: Applicants who have completed a degree under an articulation agreement.

Category 4: Applicants who have completed six (6) semesters or nine (9) quarter hours of degree creditable work in each of the following areas: English, Mathematics, the Natural Sciences, and the Social and Behavioral Sciences.

• No course is accepted as a transfer course in which a grade below “C” is earned.
• Accepted courses are recorded to the student’s transcript; neither grades nor grade points are calculated.
• The University does not accept transfer credit from challenge examinations or for course work where grades of P/F have been given.
• The maximum number of transferable credits is 64 semester hours from a 2-year college. There is currently no limit for transferring credits from 4-year institutions.

If you have been formally admitted elsewhere, you might need the Statement of Confidential Information Form (PDF). Please send it to the last school formally admitted and attended. Complete the form, sign, date it and mail it to the appropriate school for completion.