Graduate Transfer Credits
Students seeking to transfer credits must complete a transfer credit form for approval. At UW-Whitewater, all coursework, except for a maximum of twelve credits, must be undertaken within our institution. If you are enrolled in a degree program here and intend to pursue a course at another institution for transfer to UW-Whitewater, it is essential to secure permission before enrolling in the external course. Additionally, the external institution granting graduate credit may request documentation verifying your graduate status at UW-Whitewater.
Requesting Transfer Credit
To request a transfer of credits applicants must:
- Start or complete an online graduate application to a degree program at UW-Whitewater.
- Click the transfer credit request form link.
- You will be asked to log in to your gradaute application portal using email and password you created for your application.
- Complete Transfer Credit Form to initiate the request process.
Please note that transfer credit requests can only be submitted by students who have started an application or have been accepted into a degree program
Supporting Materials
No transfer credit request will be reviewed without the following information and supporting materials/documents:
- Catalogue course description
- Course syllabus
- Verification that the course is a graduate course
- Verification that the course is applicable to a graduate program at the institution offering the course
- Official Graduate Transcript from the institution where the course was taken
Policy
Within the twelve-credit transfer limit, courses completed at other institutions may be transferred to UW-Whitewater for application towards a graduate degree, subject to the following conditions:
- The institution offering the course must hold regional accreditation at the graduate level.
- The course must be listed as a graduate-level course on the student's transcript from the offering institution.
- The course should be relevant to a graduate degree program at the offering institution.
- The course must align with the student's proposed graduate degree program at UW-Whitewater.
- The course cannot be a correspondence course or taught in a format less rigorous than UW-Whitewater's standards.
- A minimum grade of B (3.00) must have been earned in the course.
Additionally, both graduate coursework from UW-Whitewater and those accepted from other accredited institutions must meet the time-based educational requirements based on the Carnegie Unit: a minimum of sixteen contact hours, along with at least 32 hours of student preparation and out-of-class activity per credit.