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CHAPTER 3: EDUCATIONAL
SERVICES
PROCEDURE 3B.2/11 - Undergraduate Credit Transfer
for Policy 3B.2
Transfer
Students
requiring evaluation of previous earned college-level
coursework from another institution who are planning to earn a degree,
certificate, or Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC)
from Anoka-Ramsey must submit official transcripts
from each institution to Records/Registration
Office.
For new students, transcripts shall be
evaluated after first enrollment. Credits accepted for transfer become part of the student’s permanent record.
General Transfer Guidelines
- Anoka-Ramsey shall consider for transfer college-level coursework completed at a degree-granting institution or by a comparable international college or university.
- All college courses in which a student has received a grade of A, B, C, D or P shall be considered for transfer evaluation. If a student’s cumulative GPA at the originating institution is less than 2.0, no “D” grades shall be accepted in transfer from that school.
- Transferred grades shall not be used in computing the student’s GPA at Anoka-Ramsey. Only credits earned at ARCC (not grade point credits or grade points) shall be recorded on the official Anoka-Ramsey transcript.
- Credits achieved through military training shall be considered for transfer. Students must submit their Military Transcripts for evaluation.
- Competency-Based Education credits shall transfer as general electives unless approved for other distribution requirements.
- Comparability: Courses approved for transfer must be comparable in nature, content and level and match at least 75% of the content and goals of the ARCC course for which the student is seeking equivalent credit.
- Time Limit: General education and elective credits shall have no transfer time limit. The timeliness of credits applied to career programs shall be considered when evaluating transfer credits.
- Equivalency/Conversion: The number of transfer credits granted per course shall not exceed the number granted by the originating institution. The conversion of quarter hours to semester hours is .66 semester hours for each quarter hour.
- Repeated Courses: Courses transferred in and later successfully completed at ARCC shall be replaced by the ARCC credits.
- Students who wish to appeal the results of their transfer evaluation must submit the Academic Standards Petition Form, transcript, and applicable course syllabus to Educational Services.
Evaluation of College Credits Toward Associate Degree Programs
- Generally, transfer credits shall be evaluated as:
- Equivalent to an ARCC general education course and MnTC Goal Area
- Not equivalent to a specific ARCC course, but applicable toward an MnTC Goal Area (e.g., Goal 1, Communication or Goal 6, Humanities and Fine Arts)
- Equivalent to a specific course in a career program (within current timeline restrictions, if in a technical program)
- Elective credit that does not apply toward general education or career course requirements (including technical courses more within current timeline restrictions)
- Students requesting evaluation of courses for transfer to ARCC may be asked to verify competency through available methods (CLEP, departmental exam, Credit for Prior Learning process, etc.). Any costs associated with verifying competency are paid by the student.
---------------------------- History:
| 7/01 |
Amended slightly |
| 3/08 |
Amended language to reflect the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System’s (MnSCU) and the Higher Learning Commission’s (HLC) requirements for balanced use of accredited status in transfer decisions |
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For Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) policies
and procedures, go to www.mnscu.edu/Policies/PolicyIndex.html
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