{"id":53454,"date":"2013-06-12T16:02:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T20:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/?page_id=53454"},"modified":"2024-04-21T18:53:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T22:53:05","slug":"transfer-credit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/cgs\/policies\/transfer-credit\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer Units"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/policies\/transfer-of-undergraduate-credit-from-us-institutions\/\">University Policy<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>College of General Studies Policy<\/h2>\n<p>It is generally expected that undergraduate students in the College of General Studies will complete the college requirements at Boston University.<\/p>\n<p>Transfer students in the college will work with the associate dean to map externally awarded units to CGS and degree requirements.<\/p>\n<p>CGS course units will be given for approved courses taken outside Boston University only if the grade earned is \u201cC\u201d or higher. Units will be given but grades earned outside of Boston University are not computed in the student\u2019s Boston University grade point average. Pass\/Fail\/Audited courses are not acceptable. The college will accept 3-unit courses, but the resulting deficiency in unit hours might call for further coursework toward the degree. As per Boston University policy, external courses applied to the BU degree will not fulfill the University\u2019s general education (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/hub\/policies\/transfer-credits\/\">BU Hub<\/a>) requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Students must follow specific guidelines to get an external course approved for units at Boston University. For more information on the external course evaluation process, please see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/resources-for-current-students\/policies\/transfer-credits\/\">guidelines for how to transfer units<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University Policy College of General Studies Policy It is generally expected that undergraduate students in the College of General Studies will complete the college requirements at Boston University. Transfer students in the college will work with the associate dean to map externally awarded units to CGS and degree requirements. CGS course units will be given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2696,"featured_media":0,"parent":211,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2696"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53454"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94193,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53454\/revisions\/94193"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}