2.4.10 Transfer Rules

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Students in the University System of Georgia (USG) must declare one home institution at a time. Students who transfer from one institution to another automatically change their home institutions.

Receiving institutions may require transfer students to complete the requirements as specified for non-transfer students. However, the total number of hours required of transfer students for the degree must not exceed the number of hours required of non-transfer students for the same major.

Students who wish to take Core IMPACTS or Field of Study courses (including distance learning courses) from a USG institution other than the home institution, either concurrently or intermittently, may receive transient permission to take and receive credit for Core IMPACTS or Field of Study courses satisfying home institution Core IMPACTS or Field of Study requirements.

Provided that non-tranfser and transfer students are treated equally, institutions may impose additional reasonable expectations, such as a grade of “C” in Core IMPACTS courses.

Core IMPACTS Transfer

Students must meet the USG-specified minimum number of hours in each Core IMPACTS domain.

Students successfully completing a course in a sending institution’s Core IMPACTS domain will receive full credit in the equivalent Core IMPACTS domain for the course upon transfer to another USG institution as long as the number of credit hours in the Core IMPACTS domain at the two institutions is the same.

In cases where the sending and receiving institutions offer unequal amounts of credit, the following rule should be used to determine how to reassign the excess credits from the sending institution’s IMPACTS domain to the receiving institution’s IMPACTS domain. If a sending institution has more credits in one domain than does a receiving institution, the receiving institution will have more credits in another domain than the sending institution. Excess credits in a domain at the sending institution should be assigned to a domain where the receiving institution has more credits.

Field of Study Transfer

Students successfully completing a course in one institution’s Field of Study will receive full credit for the course upon transferring to another USG institution as long as the student retains the same major.

Chief Transfer Officer

Each institution will designate a Chief Transfer Officer (CTO) to facilitate the transfer of students within the USG. The CTO must have senior administrative and/or faculty status. The CTO is the contact person for students, faculty, advisors, records and admissions personnel, and academic administrators when problems related to transfer of Core IMPACTS and Field of Study course work across USG institutions occur. However, CTOs should also be proactive and work to develop institutional procedures that minimize transfer problems.

Students with questions or concerns about the transfer of credit between USG institutions should contact the CTO at the receiving institution.

Chief Transfer Officers

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