Transfer Credit from Institutions Not a Part of Rutgers University

Limits on Transfer Credits. The following limits are set on the maximum number of degree credits transferable into the School of Arts and Sciences (SAS): No more than 60 credits from two-year institutions, no more than 90 credits from four-year institutions, and no more than 12 of the last 42 credits earned for the degree may be transfer credits.

Extension, professional, military, technical training, and continuing education courses typically have informal or no prerequisites and are designed to provide discrete, targeted knowledge rather than being a part of a broader liberal arts curriculum. As such, many of these courses are not awarded credit in SAS unless they are clearly equivalent to courses offered by SAS.

Academic departments often have restrictions on the application of transfer courses toward specific major or minor requirements.

Transfer from New Jersey County or Community Colleges. In the case of students who apply and are admitted directly to SAS after successfully completing an associate's degree (A.A. or A.S.) transfer program at any public New Jersey county or community college that conforms with the statewide transfer agreement, credits taken at the community college awarding the degree and required for that degree program are accepted for transfer credit, up to a total of 60 credits, and those students are deemed to have completed the core curriculum. This excludes transfer credits accepted by the community college from other institutions, credits earned by examination, credits in physical education, and courses equivalent to noncredit courses offered by SAS. Credits earned beyond the requirements for the degree program are evaluated for transfer on a course-by-course basis.

Transfer credits from New Jersey county or community colleges for students who did not earn an associate's degree conforming with the statewide transfer agreement are considered under the General Transfer policies outlined above.

Credits earned at another college after receiving an associate's degree from a New Jersey county or community college are considered under the General Transfer policies outlined above.

Transfer from Colleges or Universities Outside the United States. Students who wish to obtain transfer credit for courses taken at institutions outside the United States may be required to furnish a course-by-course evaluation from an acceptable professional evaluation service or, in some instances, a review of course syllabi and transcripts by the appropriate SAS academic department.

Transfer Policies for the Core Curriculum. All students must complete the 21st Century Challenges learning goals at Rutgers–New Brunswick.No transfer or AP courses can be used to fulfill these learning goals.

Once a student matriculates at SAS, all writing courses must be completed at Rutgers–New Brunswick. Transfer credit for 01:355:101 is not awarded unless a student is eligible to use it to meet the [WC] area of the core. However, the two-part writing sequences from Rutgers–Camden and Rutgers–Newark may still substitute for 01:355:101, provided that both courses are passed before matriculating at SAS.

All students must complete the Revision-Based Writing and Communication Learning Goal [WCr] by taking a class at Rutgers–New Brunswick; transfer and AP courses are not certified to meet this learning goal.

All students will be able to complete the Discipline-Based Writing and Communication Learning Goal [WCd] with either a Rutgers-New Brunswick course or a transfer course equivalent to a Rutgers course that has been certified as meeting the [WCd] goal.

In all other cases, when a course transfers as equivalent to a course that has been certified as meeting a core curriculum goal, SAS will accept that course as fulfilling that core curriculum requirement.

Courses without a Rutgers–New Brunswick equivalent will be reviewed on a course-by-course basis. In considering courses from the New Jersey community colleges, the general rule is that if the course meets the cognate general education requirement under the statewide transfer agreement, SAS will accept it as meeting the core requirement. As such courses are reviewed, this will be noted in NJ Transfer.

Transfer Evaluation Appeals for Students Transferring from New Jersey Community Colleges. Students who wish to appeal their New Jersey Community College transfer evaluation to the School of Arts and Sciences must do so withing 30 days of receiving their Official Transfer Summary Report.

Students should first refer to njtransfer.org to determine the proper evaluation of any given course offered at a New Jersey Community College. If the transfer evaluation and njtransfer.org are in disagreement the student should notify the SAS Transfer Center via email at transfers@sas.rutgers.edu. The email should include the student name, RUID, and the specific information detailing the error. All clerical errors will be corrected promptly and the student will be notified by return email within 30 days.

If the student is appealing the nature of the evaluation as correctly stated on njtransfer.org, they shall submit a completed copy of the Transfer Course Departmental Evaluation with an attached syllabus of the course in question to the undergraduate director of the specific academic department in which transfer credit is sought. If the department agrees that the evaluation for the course needs to be updated they will notify the SAS Transfer Center. Upon such written notification, njtransfer.org will be updated appropriately and the student record will be adjusted accordingly within 30 days of receipt of notification from the academic department.