Transferring Students within the System

Transferring within the University System of Georgia will be easier than ever due to the semester conversion. To aid in transferring, many developmental and lower division courses (0000-2999) share common numbering, titles, and course descriptions across the University System.

Any area of the core curriculum that a student has completed at a sending System institution will be accepted by the receiving System institution as being complete, though the receiving institution's required courses in that area may differ.

If a student transfers without having completed an area in the core (say, Area C), the student will then be subject to the stipulations of the receiving institution's Area C. Thus courses taken in Area C at the sending institution may end up being counted as general elective courses at the receiving institution, unless the receiving institution happens to have those same courses in Area C.

If a student has completed the entire core, including Area F (major field related courses), all 60 hours will transfer to the receiving institution. In addition, System transfer students must be able to complete the baccalaureate degree within the same total number of hours as native students.

If a student transfers Areas A-F but has not completed the necessary prerequisites for courses in the major, the student must register for courses prerequisite to those in the major but which were not part of the sixty semester hours provided by the sending institution. These prerequisite courses will be counted as general or program electives, rather than in Areas A-F. As a result, transfer students in many majors (especially in science, mathematics and technology) will complete their baccalaureate degrees with a greater proportion of lower division credits than will native majors (students who have not transferred from another institution).