Transfer Credit
New Students
To receive credit for course work earned at other accredited universities, new students should request their official transcripts be sent directly to the Office of Admissions at Taylor University. These transcripts are then forwarded to the Office of the Registrar for transfer credit evaluation; a copy of which is sent to the student. The Registrar evaluates courses for general education, elective credit and meets with the appropriate department chair to have major or minor courses evaluated for transfer credit. Course descriptions and syllabi may be required in order to evaluate transfer courses.
Current Students
After enrolling at Taylor, students who plan to take a course at another university during the summer or during a semester's absence, and wish to transfer credit to apply toward a degree must complete a transfer credit course evaluation form signed by the student's academic advisor, course department chair and the Registrar prior to enrolling in the course. The major or minor department chair's signature may be required if the course is a major/minor requirement. Upon completion of the course, students should request their official transcripts be sent directly to the Office of the Registrar at Taylor prior to the next enrollment period.
The guidelines for accepting transfer credit are as follows:
- Taylor University reserves the right to accept or reject courses for transfer credit. Remedial or vocational courses are not transferable.
- Accepting courses for transfer credit and applying them toward degree requirements are separate considerations. Courses that transfer as elective credit may not be applicable to specific requirements.
- Only course work with a grade of C- or better will be accepted. Courses taken for a grade mode of pass, credit or satisfactory do not transfer unless the transcript indicates that the grade is equivalent to at least a C-. Although a minimum grade is required, grades do not transfer. The student's GPA is computed only on work offered by or through Taylor University.
- Transfer credit will not be accepted and duplicate hours awarded for equivalent courses previously earned with a grade of D- or better at Taylor. However, the grade on the transfer institution's transcript will be used to validate completion of the course to meet a curriculum requirement with the required grade. Students attempting to raise their cumulative GPAs must repeat the respective course(s) at Taylor.
- A maximum of 64 hours of credit may be transferred from an accredited two-year college. These courses are not given upper-division credit.
- Credits transferred from an accredited four-year college may be accepted based on the course level taken at the transfer institution. Courses taken at the lower-division level may be accepted to receive equivalency to an upper-division course at Taylor; however no upper-division hours will be given. (This will be indicated by a grade of TRL [transfer/lower-division] on the Taylor transcript.)
- The Director of Teacher Certification must approve courses that apply toward teacher certification.
- Credit by examination (i.e., AP, CLEP, IB) recorded for a specific course on an official transcript must meet Taylor standards in order to be accepted as transfer credit. Procedures for acceptance of credit may be obtained from the Office of Academic Assessment. Departmental challenge exams from other institutions are not transferable.
- Graduation honors are computed only on Taylor University course work.
- Degree residency requirements: (1) students must complete 50 percent of the minimum degree hours at Taylor University [i.e., 64 of the minimum 128 hours required for the baccalaureate degree; 32 of the minimum 64 hours required for the associate degree]; (2) students must complete 50 percent of the major or minor hours at Taylor University; and (3) at least 22 of the last 30 hours must be taken at Taylor University.