Transferring into a Degree Program

As a Continuing Education student, one of your options is to transfer into a degree program. Binghamton University has a 24-credit hour limit for the Continuing Education student. Credits earned as a Continuing Education student may be transferred to a degree program, if approved by a representative of the appropriate dean within the school of your choice. If your goal is to matriculate into a degree program, a Continuing Education Adviser will work with you to design an educational plan that will transfer into a degree program. Your personalized educational plan becomes an extremely valuable tool to help position you for matriculation into a degree-granting program.

More information about transfer admissions can be found here: www.binghamton.edu/bulletin/1997-98/admission.html#transfer_credit

Process for Transferring Credits

  1. As a Continuing Education student, advisement will include looking into areas of academic interest and developing an educational plan. There are five schools of interest on the Binghamton University campus which you can choose from. The semester before your 24-credit limit completion, you can apply to the school of your choice.
  2. Once admitted to the school of your choice, any transfer credits you have completed, or brought to Binghamton University from another institute, will automatically be sent to the school of your choice and evaluated by the advising office of that school. Afterwards, a DARS report will be sent to you.
  3. Standards for admissions to be a degree candidate at Binghamton University vary significantly from standards used for admission a Continuing Education student. You may wish to consult an admission counselor, an academic adviser, or a representative of the appropriate dean to discuss the specifics of admission, or an academic program. The recommended minimum GPA for admissions is 2.8 for Harpur College of Arts and Science, School of Education and Human Development, Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the Decker School of Nursing. A recommended minimum GPA for admissions is 3.0 for School of Management. Consideration will be given towards special circumstance from each professional school towards admissions policies.
  4. For more information about transferring credits for Harpur College of Arts and Science, go to Binghamton University's equivalency site.
  5. For a more detailed view of each school go to the Binghamton University Bulletin.
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