The Registrar and the Dean of Faculty evaluate all transfer credit and determine its applicability toward fulfillment of requirements at Emory & Henry. For those students pursuing a degree at Emory & Henry, a maximum of 62 semester hours may be transferred from a community college or other two-year institution and applied toward graduation at Emory & Henry. Credit for work done outside the United States, unless it is part of a study abroad program sponsored by Emory & Henry College, must be evaluated at the student’s expense by an international transcript evaluator recognized by the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers.

In order to receive credit for the equivalent of a course numbered 300 or above at Emory & Henry, a student must have completed the course at an accredited institution that grants a baccalaureate degree or must receive approval of the chair of the appropriate department at Emory & Henry. Transfer of credit from four-year institutions is subject to the graduation requirement of the following which must be taken at Emory & Henry: the final 33 semester hours, half of the required courses in the major, half of the required courses in the minor or the contextual and support area, one Ethical Studies course, and one Global Studies course. Exceptions will be made for students in cooperative programs. Each course must have been graded C (2.0) or better in order to transfer. The college does not grant credit for correspondence courses. Courses accepted for transfer from other institutions are not used in the computation of grade point averages for academic good standing.

Only transfer students who have completed at least twelve semester hours of college credit elsewhere following high school graduation may be exempted from completing the first semester of the Western Tradition sequence (Western Tradition 100A), and they must have completed at least twenty-six semester hours elsewhere to be exempted from the second semester (Western Tradition 100B) as well. To receive this exemption, for each semester of Western Tradition 100 that is waived, such students must complete three semester hours from among the following Emory & Henry courses (or equivalencies transferred in): History 105, 110, 211, 212; Music 301, 302; Art 221, 222; Philosophy 211, 212; Political Science 340; Religion 201, 311, 312; Theatre 200, 201; Psychology 430. Such courses must be in addition to courses taken to meet major and minor requirements.

Transfer students who have completed enough college credits to enter Emory & Henry with junior status (at least 57 semester hours) are exempt from the Great Books requirement provided that they have taken and passed three semester hours of literature at the school(s) from which they are transferring. The college’s Ethical Inquiry and Global Studies requirements are not subject to waiver or substitution.

Students already enrolled in Emory & Henry who wish to take coursework at other institutions must seek advance approval from the faculty advisor, the chair of the department in which the course falls, and the Dean of Faculty or Registrar. Approval forms are available in the Registrar’s Office. Such applications, especially for courses to meet general education requirements or requirements for the major, minor, or contextual and support area, should be made only in exceptional circumstances and for convincing academic reasons. The chair of the department involved may specify that following the completion of a course at another institution, transfer of credit is contingent upon satisfactory completion of a departmental examination at Emory & Henry. The Committee on Academic Standards serves as a board of appeals for proposals which do not receive approval from any of the above academic officers.

Students are not permitted to transfer courses to Emory & Henry if those courses are taken concurrently with enrollment at the college, except with prior approval by the Dean of Faculty. The college’s limits with respect to course load apply also to courses taken at other schools, or at any combination of schools.