6.0 TRANSFER POLICIES

6.1 Transfer Credit 

Graduate work taken at other regionally accredited institutions must be evaluated and approved by the program director and/or graduate committee of the respective program in order to satisfy degree requirements at KSU. Such transfer credit cannot exceed 25% of the total semester hours required for the degree and cannot reduce residency requirements. No grade below B may be accepted. Transfer grades are not used in calculating semester or cumulative grade point averages.

Individual degree programs may have additional specific requirements or limitations for transfer credit. Refer to the program descriptions in this catalog for additional information. 

6.2 International Transfer Credit Practice 

International transcripts must be evaluated and endorsed/certified/accredited by an evaluation agency. The Graduate College accepts official evaluations from several agencies. Please see Graduate Admissions for a complete list. 

For transfer credit evaluations, international course descriptions must have been translated by a recognized translation service and certified as a true and correct translation. 

6.3 Graduate Credit for Prior Learning Policy

Credit for prior learning is offered for select graduate courses when a student demonstrates satisfactory competency for course learning outcomes as demonstrated by an industry certification, performance on a department exam, or portfolio. A complete listing of eligible courses for credit for prior learning can be found on the KSU Credit for Prior Learning website.

A graduate student is eligible to earn credit for prior learning before or within their first semester of enrollment, prior to earning any credit, in one of the University’s graduate programs. A graduate student may earn a maximum of 30% of the total credit hours of their graduate degree through credit for prior learning. A fee will be assessed for each certification evaluation, institutional examination, or portfolio review attempted; no course may be attempted more than once. A passing grade of 80 percent or higher on the department exam or portfolio is required to receive course credit. If the required score for the examination is met, students will receive the credit equaled with the course. Credit for prior learning credit is considered residential credit. As a result, this type of credit is not calculated in the Institutional GPA. A student may submit an appeal, using the appeal process described in 3.6 Grading Policies .

The student must initiate a request for eligibility to receive Credit for Prior Learning using the process outlined on the Credit for Prior Learning website (https://www.kennesaw.edu/credit-prior-learning/. Students are ineligible to complete Credit for Prior Learning under any of the following circumstances:

• If the student has previously audited the course at KSU
• If the student has previously registered at KSU and received credit for the course.
• If the student has previously registered for the course but has withdrawn after the first two calendar weeks from the day the semester begins.
• If the student is currently enrolled in the course.
• If the course is an independent research course, such as capstone, master’s thesis, masters project, special project, dissertation, etc.