Rutgers Business School: Undergraduate-New Brunswick (RBS-NB) students may be awarded transfer credit for business and/or liberal arts courses from NJ community colleges, other NJ colleges or universities, colleges or universities outside of NJ or internationally under the following circumstances:

Transfer Credits for Business Courses: In order to receive a degree from the RBS-NB, the student must take at least 45 business credits in the RBS-NB program.

With the exception of Introduction to Financial Accounting (33:010:272) and Introduction to Managerial Accounting (33:010:275), the RBS-NB offers all business courses for major credit at the upper-division level (300 or 400 level). Courses that are equivalent to 33:011:100 Introduction to Business may transfer for degree credit but do not apply toward any business major requirements. No additional business courses taken at the 100 or 200 level at other schools will transfer to RBS-NB. An upper-level course taken at another institution is considered for transfer to RBS-NB only if the transferring school is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and if the course is evaluated and approved as equivalent to the Rutgers University-New Brunswick course by the faculty of RBS-NB.

In order for students to receive transfer credit for Introduction to Financial Accounting and Introduction to Managerial Accounting, the courses must be evaluated by the Department of Accounting and Information Systems and transferred as equivalent to the courses listed below:

• 33:010:272  Introduction to Financial Accounting
• 33:010:275  Introduction to Managerial Accounting

Credit is accepted in transfer only if the grade earned is equivalent to at least a C (2.000).

Transfer Credit for Liberal Arts Courses: Students who were formerly matriculated at accredited institutions outside of Rutgers University may be granted transfer credit for liberal arts courses subject to the evaluation of the course(s) by the appropriate academic department. Credit is accepted in transfer only if the grade earned is equivalent to at least a C (2.000). Grades from institutions other than Rutgers are not included on the Rutgers transcript or in the cumulative grade-point average.

RBS-NB does not award credit for extension, professional, technical training, and continuing education courses.

Transfer from New Jersey County or Community Colleges: In the case of students who successfully complete an associate degree (A.A. or A.S.) transfer program at any public New Jersey county or community college and apply and are admitted directly to RBS-NB, academic courses 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. Students will not be granted equivalent credit for business courses taken at county or community colleges if the course is offered at RBS-NB at the 300 or 400 level.

Transfer credits from New Jersey county or community colleges for students who did not earn an associate degree are reviewed according to the policies outlined above in "Transfer Credits for Business Courses" and "Transfer Credit for Liberal Arts Courses."

Transfer from Colleges or Universities Outside the United States: Students who wish to obtain liberal arts transfer credit for courses taken at institutions outside the United States must provide a course-by-course evaluation from an acceptable professional evaluation service or a review of course syllabi and transcripts by the appropriate Rutgers academic department. Business courses are not accepted for transfer from outside the United States unless evaluated and approved by the RBS-NB program.

Transfer from Military Experience: RBS may offer 6 elective credits for military service to a student after completing basic and annual training, which is reflected on the DD214. The credits would be transferred as:

• 03:691:101 Foundation of Officership (1.5 Credits)
• 03:691:102 Basic Leadership (1.5 Credits)
• 03:691:201 Individual Leadership (1.5 Credits)
•  03:691:202 Leadership & Teamwork (1.5 Credits)

Summer and Winter Session Courses: Students may not take business courses outside of Rutgers-New Brunswick. All business courses must be taken on the Rutgers-New Brunswick campus, with the exception of Introduction to Financial Accounting and Introduction to Managerial Accounting, which may be taken at another school (including Rutgers University-Newark and Rutgers University-Camden) ONLY with preapproval from our office, and ONLY if the course is not being repeated. We will not grant permission for either of these two courses to be taken outside of Rutgers-New Brunswick during the winter session. Accounting majors must take both Financial and Managerial Accounting at Rutgers-New Brunswick. RBS-NB will not grant credit for any online business courses outside of Rutgers-New Brunswick.

Students who wish to take non-business Summer or Winter Session courses at other institutions must obtain prior approval from departments offering similar courses at Rutgers and from the dean's office. Students must fill out a Transfer Credit Preapproval form to receive prior approval for courses they intend to take for credit at another college or university. All coursework must be completed with grades of C or better to transfer; credits transfer but the grade does not. For example, students cannot improve their GPA at Rutgers by taking a course offered at a community county college over the summer and earning an A in it. Summer Session courses taken at Rutgers-New Brunswick do count toward your GPA.

Students who wish to take a course at a community college must fill out a Transfer Credit Preapproval form to receive prior approval for courses before they register, or the course may not be accepted for transfer. In order to obtain course numbers, you can look them up on njtransfer.org and to make certain that the course transfers to Rutgers. 

Courses must be a minimum of four weeks in duration (five weeks for math) or they will not transfer to Rutgers.

Due to suspected fraudulent activity, RBS-NB will no longer preapprove summer or winter session courses offered by overseas institutions, outside of participation in a Rutgers-sponsored study abroad program.

Avoid third-party agents that advertise summer or winter session courses purportedly offered by a U.S. college or university. Often, these agents are not authorized to act on these schools behalf and the course offerings either no longer exist or are outright fraudulent. RBS-NB will not pre-approve courses offered through such third-party agents.

If you are going to be overseas a RBS-NB or a N.J. community college online summer course.  Please fill out a Transfer Credit Preapproval form to receive prior approval for courses before you register.