Transfer Credit Evaluation

Transfer credits are accepted by St. Edward’s under the following policies:

• Credit may be granted for work completed at four-year foreign institutions with compatible liberal arts curriculum. In cases where sufficient resources are not available to make a satisfactory determination of credit, the evaluation is undertaken by a private agency at student’s expense. (Work is evaluated according to American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) guidelines.)
• No more than 66 hours of junior college or community college credit may be transferred.
• Entering students must have official transcripts of all prior work on file within one semester of initial registration or be subject to dismissal.
• Transfer credit will not be awarded for any prior work completed at any institution that is not listed on the student’s admission application form.
• Proprietary (for-profit) and single-purpose institutions, including vocational/technical programs, are excluded. Exceptions may be made if the courses are recognized traditional academic courses and are the equivalent of courses currently offered at St. Edward’s.
• Only courses in which a student has earned a grade of C– or higher will be accepted. A grade of “pass” will be considered on a case-by-case basis for transfer students prior to matriculation only.
• Courses determined by St. Edward’s to be developmental, remedial or preparatory are not eligible for the assignment of transfer credit (i.e. courses beginning with 0).
• The grades for work transferred will not apply toward the cumulative grade-point average.
• No more than four hours of transfer credit will be accepted for any fall or spring semester in which a student is concurrently enrolled at St. Edward’s and another college or university.
• Transcripts submitted to St. Edward’s for transfer evaluation become the permanent property of St. Edward’s and cannot, under any circumstances, be returned to the student. St. Edward’s will not generate copies of transcripts that originated at other institutions.

Quarter Hour Transfer Conversion Chart: Use the chart to convert quarter hour credit to semester hour credit.

Transfer Credit Equivalency Guides: The Equivalency Guides include information for Austin Community College, Houston Community College, Lone Star College and San Jacinto College.

Transfer Advising Guides: The Transfer Advising Guides include detailed degree information designed to help transfer students maximize credit transfer between the two-year college and St. Edward's University. These include general education and major course requirements--both transferrable and in-residence.

A partnership between Austin Community College and St. Edward’s University allows eligible transfer students to complete their ACC associate degree through a process called reverse transfer. For more information, visit the Austin Community College Reverse Transfer site.

Transfer credits may be accepted by St. Edward’s only if they were earned in a college or university that has been accredited by one of the following recognized regional accrediting commissions:

• New England Association of Schools and Colleges — Commission on Institutions of Higher Learning
• Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools/Commission on Higher Education
• North Central Association of Colleges and Schools
• Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges
• Southern Association of Colleges and Schools — Commission on Colleges
• Western Association of Schools and Colleges

For best results, create a login account so that you can save your transfer and degree evaluations and return to it at later date for updating courses completed and intended degrees. If you are returning to the SEU Transfer Equivalency Self-Service tool and cannot recall your password, please email regr@stedwards.edu with your name and email address used to create the account in order to have a new password generated.

• When do you plan to enroll?
  • Select the semester you will first enroll at SEU.
• What is your intended program?
  • Programs are listed in alphabetical order beginning with degree and followed by major.
    • BA = Bachelor of Arts (ex. Communication, Graphic Design, Psychology, Visual Studies)
    • BBA = Bachelor of Business Administration (ex. Business, Finance, Marketing)
    • BFA = Bachelor of Fine Arts (ex. Acting)
    • BS = Bachelor of Science (ex. Behavioral Neuroscience, Biology, Computer Science, Math)
• What is your intended level?
  • This answer is limited based on program chosen, choose the selection that appears in the dropdown.
• What is your intended college?
  • This answer is limited based on program chosen, choose the selection that appears in the dropdown.
• What degree will you pursue?
  • This answer is limited based on program chosen, choose the selection that appears in the dropdown.
• What is your intended major?
  • This answer is limited based on program chosen, choose the selection that appears in the dropdown.
• What is your intended concentration?
  • If the major you have chosen includes a concentration, the options will be listed in the dropdown menu and you can select the one desired.
  • If the major you have chosen does not include concentrations, the only option will be "none"; select this and continue.
• Would you like to add a minor?
  • SEU offers a large selection of minors to complement your chosen major; if you would like to add a minor, please choose one from the drop down menu.

If you do not have any transfer credits to enter, click "No, I'm done" to go directly to your audit results.

If you do have transfer credits to enter, click on "Enter Transfer Credits" and follow the instructions below:

• First find your college/university and then click on your selection.
  • You can use the search box to find a college/university by name, city or state.
  • If you cannot find the name of your college/university, use the TX Common Crs Sys Institution--here you will find a list of lower-division courses/titles offered by most Texas institutions--this can also be used for universities outside of Texas by searching by title of course in the next step. Click here for more information about the Texas Common Course Numbering System.
• Next, select your first class (and if we have the course in our system) you’ll be able to add it to your transfer work.
  • You can use the search box to find a course by title (ex. English), discipline (ex. ENGL) or number (ex. 1301)
• Once a class is selected, answer the following questions:
  • When was this course completed?
    • Enter the term in which you took the course (ex. Fall 2019)
    • If you do not see the term in which you took the course listed, choose the closest term available (ex. Spring 2010 = Fall 2016)
  • How many credits did you receive?
    • How many hours was the course worth (ex. 3)
  • What was your grade?
    • Select the grade you earned for the course.
      • Grades of D and below are not listed here because these grades do not allow for the transfer of credit.
  • What type of credits?
    • Semester credits are most typical; institutions with semester credits generally have Fall, Spring and Summer terms, with only Fall and Spring terms required
    • Quarter credits are less common; institutions with quarter credits generally have Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer terms, with Fall, Winter and Spring terms required.
• If you have more than one course from the selected institution, click on the box next to "Add another class from this school" before clicking on "Proceed"
• If you are finished adding courses from the institution, uncheck the box next to "Add another class from this school" and click on “Proceed”.

Please include courses from all institutions you have previously attended or are currently attending.

If a course that you have completed at another institution is not found, that is an indicator that we have not previously evaluated the course. You can get in touch with the Office of Admission for any questions you may have.

Please note that the transfer and degree evaluation reports that you have created are NOT official. Rather, they should be used as a guide to help you understand how your classes taken at previous institutions may transfer to St. Edward's University and may apply to degree requirements.

Your degree audit can also be downloaded as a PDF for printing purposes.

Official transfer and degree evaluations are not completed until you have submitted your official transcripts and you are fully admitted to St. Edward's University.

For more information on how to apply or to check your application status, please contact the Office of Admission.

Students with unusually thorough high school preparation or significant work experience are encouraged to earn credit by challenging courses offered by the university. In this way, a student’s progress toward a degree may be accelerated. A maximum of 15 hours of challenge credit may be counted. Procedures for challenging a course are found in the Student Handbook. Each school determines which of its courses are open to challenge. Only currently enrolled students are eligible for challenge exams.

Credit granted by examination is applicable to a St. Edward’s University degree program but may not necessarily be transferable to another institution. Examination credit counts in neither the residence hours nor honors calculations. It is necessary to make arrangements to complete all CLEP, DANTES, PEP and challenge examinations prior to certification for graduation. Test scores may take up to six weeks to arrive.

All examination scores must be submitted to the Office of the Registrar by:

• July 1 for summer term graduation
• Oct. 1 for fall semester graduation
• March 1 for spring semester graduation

All examination credit appears on the transcript as CR and does not affect the GPA in any way.

St. Edward’s recognizes the IB and awards credit for higher-level courses of 5 or better. All IB work is subject to evaluation by the associate vice president for Academic Affairs or by school deans. No credit is given for subsidiary-level courses. Students will be granted credit on an individual, course-by-course basis.

Credit may be granted to students earning qualifying scores on Advanced Level General Certificate of Education (A-Level) exams; however, Ordinary Level General Certificate of Education (O-Level) exams are not eligible for credit. Credit will be granted for GCE A-Level or AS-Level (Subsidiary) exam grades of C or better. A-Level exams will be granted a maximum of 6–8 credits per exam, while AS-Level exams will be granted a maximum of 3–4 credits per exam; not to exceed a maximum of 32 total credits. Equivalencies for exam credit will be granted on a course-by-course basis.

Credit may be granted for French Baccalaureate courses with a coefficient of 4 or higher. Within this level of courses, examination scores of 13 or higher may earn a maximum of 6–8 credits per exam not to exceed a maximum of 32 total credits. Equivalencies for exam credit will be granted on a course-by-course basis.