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Transfer Credit Policy

Leveraging prior college coursework, and military and corporate training for credit transferability is one way you can shorten your time to graduation. We encourage you to pursue this option as you begin your degree at Grantham University.

Types of Transfer Credit

At Grantham, we evaluate and award transfer credit based on the philosophy that students will not be required to repeat courses in which competencies have been mastered. Prior college, military experience, employer courses and equivalency exams, such as CLEP, may be used to obtain credit in lieu of course and credit hour requirements.

To apply for and receive transfer credit for previous college/university work, American Council on Education (ACE) evaluated work experience or credit by exam programs, students must submit:

• Prior college coursework. Transcripts must be in English. Foreign transcripts require an equivalency evaluation prior to evaluation at Grantham.
• Military experience – as determined by ACE (American Council on Education), usually listed on an AARTS, SMART, CCAF or CGI transcript.
• Employer courses – provided the course has been appropriately evaluated for college credit by ACE.
• AP, CLEP and DANTES/DSST – as long as the ACE-recommended test score is achieved and the test was taken less than 20 years prior to matriculation.
  • DANTES Score Report — School Code: 8473
  • CLEP Score Report — School Code: 2244
  • Army ACE Registry Transcript (AARTS)
  • Marine/Navy ACE Registry Transcript (SMART)
  • Community College of the Air Force (CCAF)
  • Coast Guard Institute

Obtaining Transcripts

You may send copies of transcripts or documents during the initial admission stages.  If you grant permission, Grantham will make every attempt to assist you in obtaining the needed official transcript(s). There are cases, however, when official transcripts can only be obtained directly by you. You must request official military transcripts (SMART, AARTS, CCAF, CGI), ACE transcripts, college-level testing transcripts (CLEP, DSST, ECE, AP), international transcripts and equivalency reports. Ultimately, it is your responsibility to ensure that any requested official transcript(s) are forwarded to Grantham University directly from other institutions you have attended. Official transfer credit will not be awarded until official transcripts are received by the registrar’s office.

Transfer credit is awarded on a course-by-course basis for courses with equivalent content and value as the corresponding Grantham course(s). Grantham is guided by the credit recommendations of the American Council on Education (www.acenet.edu) in its evaluations of military training and testing-service examinations.

The amount of transfer credit accepted is dependent upon the declared program of study and Grantham’s residency requirement. Previously earned transfer credit is determined by the requirements of the program.

Transfer Credit Policy for the Undergraduate Program

• Generally, undergraduate college-level courses completed at accredited institutions as recognized by the Department of Education and Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) will transfer, provided that grades of at least “C” are earned and the course is similar in content and scope to work offered at Grantham University. Developmental courses will not be considered for transfer.
• You must complete at least 25% of the required credit hours with courses from Grantham to earn the associate degree.
• You must complete at least 25% of the required credit hours with courses from Grantham to earn the bachelor degree.
• Nursing courses are not transferrable into the nursing programs at Grantham University.

Transfer Credit Policy for the Graduate Program

• Grades of “B” or better will be accepted for graduate-level courses completed at accredited institutions as recognized by the Department of Education, as long as they were completed within the last 10 years, including credits earned at Grantham.
• You must successfully complete at least 75% of courses in the enrolled degree program at Grantham to earn a master’s degree.
• Grantham courses applied to the completion of one graduate program cannot be applied to a second graduate program.
• Nursing courses are not transferrable into the nursing programs at Grantham University.

Foreign Transcript Evaluation

If you have completed secondary/university-level courses in a foreign country that are comparable to course credits in the American education system, you must have your courses evaluated and official copies of the evaluations sent to Grantham. Foreign transcript evaluations are accepted from any agency that is a member of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services or the Association of International Credential Evaluators.

Re-admitted Students

If you have been withdrawn from Grantham for the reason(s) below, you will be categorized as a “re-admittance” upon seeking to return to the University. You must submit a new application for admission. Unless the provisions of the Military Deployment Policy were met, if you are termed as a “re-admittance," you will be subject to the policies, procedures and degree program requirements of the Catalog in effect at the time you are re-admitted:

• Voluntarily withdraws from the University
• Does not register for a new term within 365 days of completing a term
• Fails to maintain Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP)
• Violate Code of Conduct
• Is administratively cancelled or withdrawn from the University

Please refer to the Withdrawal Policy in the University Catalog for more information regarding withdrawals.