ÖØ¿ÚζSM

Transfer courses are courses accepted for credit at ÖØ¿ÚζSM and taken at another postsecondary institution that is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Exchange courses are not transfer courses.

Students seeking admission to the University of ÖØ¿ÚζSM must have official transcripts of all college courses completed at post-secondary institutions sent to the Office of Admissions for evaluation by the University Registrar. All official transcripts must be received prior to the student's assigned registration date for the second term that they are enrolled at ÖØ¿ÚζSM. If not received by that date, a registration hold will be placed on the student's account which prevents registration for ÖØ¿ÚζSM courses in subsequent terms.

If a student who has already matriculated to ÖØ¿ÚζSM completes one or more courses at another post-secondary institution and wants the course(s) to fulfill their ÖØ¿ÚζSM degree requirements, the student must have an official transcript of all completed courses sent to the University Registrar for evaluation. Please see other sections on this webpage, including Post-Matriculation Transfer Credit Limit, for more information.

All paper transcripts should be mailed directly from the institution of study to the following address:

University of ÖØ¿ÚζSM
Admissions, Mail #5017
2115 Summit Ave
St. Paul, MN 55105-1078

All links and passwords to electronic PDF transcript downloads should be emailed directly from the institution of study to the following email address: admissions@stthomas.edu.

The Faculty Director of Transfer Courses oversees the process for transfer credit determinations, with relevant academic units being the decision-makers about transfer credit equivalencies. The University Registrar records the transfer course decisions. Students may be asked to provide additional materials for transfer course decisions. The university may require transcripts from international schools to be submitted to an evaluation service for processing before officially evaluating them. A fee may be charged for this service.

The information about transfer courses that is provided in the “Transfer Credit Tool” applies to transfer courses taken both prior to matriculation and after matriculation. If a student has matriculated at ÖØ¿ÚζSM and thereafter wishes to enroll in a course that is not in the Transfer Credit Tool, the determination of whether a post-matriculation transfer course fulfills the criteria for a core requirement or for a major or minor field requirement must be made by the appropriate academic unit; this pre-approval should be determined prior to the student enrolling in the course. Though academic units are encouraged to use course descriptions for making transfer course determinations, an academic unit may require students to submit the syllabus for any potential transfer course they hope to apply to a major, minor, certificate, or core requirement.

In some cases, if a transfer student is bringing in a significant amount of transfer courses, and if the course-by-course evaluation leaves many potentially relevant courses evaluated only as elective credits, the student’s transcript may be holistically evaluated by the Faculty Director of Transfer Courses, consulting with faculty and deans to determine if a group of courses could collectively meet the spirit of a particular requirement (major, minor, certificate, or core).

Students who first become degree-seeking at ÖØ¿ÚζSM beginning with the fall 2013 semester and for all subsequent semesters may count a maximum of 8 additional transfer credits taken after the date of matriculation at ÖØ¿ÚζSM toward core requirements, with no more than 4 of those credits counting toward any one core requirement area (for instance, Language and Culture or Literature and Writing). This limit applies only to post-matriculation transfer credits and therefore does not apply to courses taken through a UST study abroad program or through the ACTC.

ÖØ¿ÚζSM will accept only transfer courses in which the student has received a minimum grade of C- (1.7 value) or higher.

When a transfer student matriculates at ÖØ¿ÚζSM, all transfer courses accepted for credit at ÖØ¿ÚζSM will be posted to the student's academic history for the first term of enrollment at ÖØ¿ÚζSM. When any ÖØ¿ÚζSM student transfers credits to ÖØ¿ÚζSM after the student's first term of enrollment, the transfer courses will be posted to academic history for the term in which it was taken at the transfer institution.

ÖØ¿ÚζSM will convert all transfer credits taken from quarter system academic institutions to semester credit using the following conversion scale (dividing the number of quarter credits by 1.5).

The First-Year Experience (FYE) requirement described below applies specifically to transfer students, defined as students who have taken college credit after high school graduation in a traditional fall or spring term. The FYE requirement that applies to First-Time First Year students, defined as students who have not taken college credit after high school graduation in a traditional fall or spring term, is described in the Core Curriculum's First-Year Experience.

The FYE requirement for transfer students is the following:

• Transfer students with 27 or fewer credits (the credit classification for a freshmen student) will complete the full FYE requirement including the learning community requirement and the 1-credit FYEX-100 course.
• Transfer students with 28 or more credits will be exempt from the FYE requirement but will complete the 0-credit FYEX 001, which will be Canvas modules that introduce students to our mission, values, convictions, and important resources on campus. Registration holds will be used to ensure these students complete this in a timely manner.

The University of ÖØ¿ÚζSM has two transfer block agreements: one regarding the Minnesota Transfer Curriculum and another addressing associate degrees earned at institutions in specific states. The transfer block agreements apply to students matriculating to ÖØ¿ÚζSM in Fall 2021 and beyond.

The transfer block agreements address how the Minnesota Transfer Curriculum and associate degrees (specified below) relate to the core curriculum of the ÖØ¿ÚζSM undergraduate baccalaureate degrees. In situations where additional evaluation is needed (e.g., the course is a major or allied requirement and is not on the Transfer Credit Tool), the relevant academic unit will make this determination.

The Minnesota Transfer Curriculum is (MnTC) is a set of general education curricular requirements in all two- and four-year public colleges and universities in Minnesota, including schools within the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system (30 two-year colleges and seven state universities) as well as those within the University of Minnesota system.

All students who complete the MnTC before matriculating to ÖØ¿ÚζSM as a baccalaureate-degree-seeking student will be deemed to have completed the ÖØ¿ÚζSM undergraduate core curriculum requirements after satisfying these additional requirements:

• Complete two additional courses, one designated by the Philosophy department and one designated by the Theology department.
• Complete an FYEX course.
  • If the student is a first-time first-year (FTFY) student, they will take FYEX 100. FTFY students are those who have not taken college credit after high school graduation in a traditional fall or spring term.
  • If a student is a transfer student, they take a student-specific alternative (FYEX 001).
• Complete the core curriculum's Signature Work requirement.

All students who complete an Associate of Arts (AA) degree from an accredited institution in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, and North Dakota before matriculating to ÖØ¿ÚζSM as a baccalaureate-degree-seeking student will be deemed to have completed the ÖØ¿ÚζSM undergraduate core curriculum requirements after satisfying these additional requirements:

• Complete two additional courses, one designated by the Philosophy department and one designated by the Theology department.
• Complete an FYEX course.
  • If the student is a first-time first-year (FTFY) student, they will take FYEX 100. FTFY students are those who have not taken college credit after high school graduation in a traditional fall or spring term.
  • If a student is a transfer student, they take a student-specific alternative (FYEX 001).
• Complete the core curriculum's Signature Work requirement.

All students who complete an Associate of Science (AS) degree from Minnesota and also complete the 40-credit Minnesota Transfer Curriculum before matriculating to ÖØ¿ÚζSM as a baccalaureate-degree-seeking student will be deemed to have completed the ÖØ¿ÚζSM undergraduate core curriculum requirements after satisfying these additional requirements:

• Complete two additional courses, one designated by the Philosophy department and one designated by the Theology department.
• Complete an FYEX course.
  • If the student is a first-time first-year (FTFY) student, they will take FYEX 100. FTFY students are those who have not taken college credit after high school graduation in a traditional fall or spring term.
  • If a student is a transfer student, they take a student-specific alternative (FYEX 001).
• Complete the core curriculum's Signature Work requirement.