Transfer Credit Evaluation

Undergraduate transcript evaluations are done by the Records & Registration Office.

Transfer credit is granted for grades of C or better from regionally accredited institutions. Credit received on pass/fail or credit/no-credit basis is also accepted. Transfer credit is posted without grades on your Miami record and grades earned elsewhere are disregarded in the computation of your g.p.a.

Whenever possible, transfer credits are assigned corresponding Miami course numbers. The appropriate Miami department determines where credit applies. Courses that do not fulfill the Miami Plan for Liberal Education, divisional requirements, or major requirements transfer as free electives.

Students who earn credit at institutions outside the United States should provide (in addition to their academic records) course descriptions, number of class hours required in each course, and the length of the academic term(s) when enrolled. Credit can be transferred only for studies completed at a recognized degree-granting institution. These credits are evaluated by the Office of the Registrar in consultation with the Office of International Programs.

You can receive credit for courses sponsored by the Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Educational Support (DANTES) program that are college level and completed with satisfactory final examinations. Credit earned through non-collegiate sponsored instruction, evaluated by the American Council on Education (listed in National Guide to Education Credit for Training Programs), may be accepted only with approval of the appropriate academic department.

Acceptance of extra-institutional or nontraditional credit, such as credit by examination, extension credit, correspondence credit, and armed forces credit, is limited to 32 semester hours. Only 20 of the 32 hours may be in correspondence work and in extension work from other institutions.

Quarter-Semester Conversion

A quarter hour is two-thirds (0.6667) of a semester hour. To figure semester hours, multiply the quarter hours by 0.6667.