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Only courses and credits completed with an earned grade of C or higher at a regionally accredited institution are transferable to Berea College. The amount of credit granted by the original institution will be honored by Berea and translated into comparable course credits or fractions of course credits. If not accepted to meet a specific General Education or major/minor requirement, such credit can be accepted as an elective credit.
No credit is granted for courses numbered below 100.
Credit for a course in which a Pass (P), Satisfactory (S), or credit grade has been earned will be granted only if documentation stating that the work in the course was, at a minimum, at the C grade level is sent directly to Berea College from the registrar of the school or from the instructor of the course.
A student currently enrolled at Berea who wishes to transfer credit earned at another regionally accredited institution must have approval in advance from both the Coordinator of Academic Transitions and the Department Chairperson or Interdisciplinary Academic Program Director in which the course would be offered at Berea. In addition to the transfer-credit policies stated above and on the previous page, the following policies apply to courses taken elsewhere:
- Once a Berea College student has accumulated 16.75 course credits (67 semester hours), including previously transferred credit, no transfer credit will be granted for courses taken at a community, junior, or other two-year college.
- Eight (8) of the last eleven (11) courses required for completion of the degree must be earned in residence at Berea College. Exceptions can be approved by the Student Admissions and Academic Standing (SAAS) Committee.
- Credit is transferred only on the basis of an official transcript mailed directly from the other institution’s registar to: Office of Academic Services, CPO 2205, Berea College, Berea, KY 40404. It is the student’s responsibility to request this document from the registrar where the work was completed.
- Only credit is transferred to Berea; not grades or quality points. Transfer credit is not used in computing the GPA at Berea College and higher grades will not replace lower grades on the Berea transcript.
- Credit cannot be given for any course that is the equivalent of a course previously completed at Berea.
- Any course in which a grade of “F” has been earned at Berea can only be repeated at Berea.
For a copy of the Application for Transfer of Credit form, see Appendix G; this form also is available in 101 Lincoln Hall.
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