Universities Accepting Transfer Credits for Graduate programs

The Graduate Program of the Department of Music offers advanced training in historical musicology, ethnomusicology, theory, and composition, leading to the degree of PhD in Music. There is no admission to an AM program separate from these PhD programs. In unusual cases, students who cannot successfully complete the General Examination may be given the option of completing the requirements for a terminal AM degree.

Musicology at Harvard offers intensive training in historical and cultural approaches to the study of music. While the program has an emphasis on Western music, students increasingly explore wide-ranging geographies and subjects. Harvard University take an expansive view of the field and encourage the students to do the same. Most graduate courses in musicology are research seminars; many treat specific topics and theoretical approaches, while others deal with methodology and recent trends in the field. The musicology faculty also offer proseminars that are open to both graduate and undergraduate students. At the end of two years of study, graduate students take a General Examination. In year three, having passed the General Exam, students begin to teach and craft a Ph.D. dissertation proposal; subsequent years are devoted to teaching, research, writing, and professional development.

An important aspect of the Harvard program in musicology is its interdisciplinary breadth, which includes training in ethnomusicology and music theory. Students often also take seminars in other departments – and are encouraged to do so. Accreditation in secondary fields is available through many programs, such as American Studies, Critical Media Practice, Medieval Studies, Romance Languages and Literatures, and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, to name a few.

Graduate students are awarded six years guaranteed funding (including living expenses) when accepted to a PhD program.

Harvard University Department of Music permit transfer of credit for no more than two courses. Students are allowed to request transfer credit if they are in good standing after the first year of coursework at Harvard and on submission of details about the course for which credit is requested. Graduate courses taken as an undergraduate student may not be presented for credit if those courses counted toward the undergraduate degree.

Yale’s doctoral Program in Film and Media Studies quickly achieved the international stature it enjoys today. Building on a core faculty that had long overseen an impressive undergraduate major, the graduate program attracted incoming faculty who were eager to help shape it. The quality of the students who have applied has been superior, and the large majority of those selected have chosen to study here. Fifty students have completed, or are in the midst of, their degrees.

Graduate students have been able to produce such significant research thanks not least to Yale’s unparalleled resources. Specialized librarians and curators keep our students in mind as they collect and make available the massive amounts of material held by the Sterling Memorial Library, the Haas library in the History of Art, and especially the Beinecke rare book library that houses the archives of hundreds of filmmakers, writers, and artists. Two of America’s great art museums, The Yale University Art Gallery and the British Art Center (with buildings designed by Louis Kahn), retain a continuing relation with our graduate students.

The faculty and its curriculum represent a full range of topics that have been at the center of Film Studies from its outset: theory, criticism, and history, plus cultural approaches to American, European, Latin American and Japanese national cinemas. Naturally, as the field and its discipline evolve, so too do we, though always keeping ourselves based in this tradition. Transnational and global approaches bring the national cinemas, and their specialists, into productive contact.

Sixteen term-courses will be the norm, taken over a two-year period. In some cases a candidate may be allowed to take up to two courses in the third year.

For the PhD program in Italian and Film and Media Studies at Yale University, students may gain up to two transfer course credits for prior graduate work to in Italian with the approval of the DGS of Italian.

The Master of Science (M.S.) program is a terminal degree program. It is based on the completion of lecture courses focused on a theme within the discipline of Aeronautics and Astronautics engineering. No thesis is offered. Research is optional (required to take the qualifying examination).

Students with an aeronautical engineering background should be able to complete the master’s degree in five quarters; note that many courses are not taught during the summer. Students with a bachelor’s degree in Physical Science, Mathematics, or other areas of Engineering may find it necessary to take certain prerequisite courses, which may lengthen the time required to obtain the master’s degree.

The purpose of the master’s program is to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary for a professional career or doctoral studies. This is done through course work which provides a solid grounding in the basic disciplines, including fluid mechanics, dynamics and control, propulsion, structural mechanics, and applied or computational mathematics, and course work or supervised research which provides depth and breadth in the student’s area of specialization.

The master's degree program requires 45 quarter units of course work, which must be taken at Stanford. All units must be in courses at or above the 100 level, and all courses other than seminars and free elective must be taken for a letter grade.

Transfer credit is allowed only for courses taken as a graduate student, after receiving a bachelor’s degree, in which equivalence to Stanford courses is established and for which a grade of ‘B’ or better has been awarded. Transfer credits, if approved, reduce the total number of Stanford units required for a degree. Up to 45 units completed at Stanford toward an M.A. or M.S. degree or accepted as transfer credit, but not both, in an Engineering discipline may be used toward the 90 unit residency requirement for the Engineer degree. At least 45 units of work at Stanford are necessary to complete the 90 residency units for the Engineer degree.

Fellowships and course or research assistantships are available to qualified graduate students. Fellowships sponsored by Gift Funds, Stanford University, and Industrial Affiliates of Stanford University in Aeronautics and Astronautics provide grants to several first-year students for up to five quarters to cover tuition and living expenses. Stanford Graduate Fellowships, sponsored by the University, provide grants for up to three full years of study and research; each year, the department is invited to nominate several outstanding doctoral or predoctoral students for these prestigious awards.

The curriculum for the MPA in Economic Policy Management (MPA-EPM), formerly known as Program in Economic Policy Management (PEPM), aims to build students' technical competence in the tools of economic management and policymaking, train students in the application of these skills, and educate students about current thinking on the world economic environment, as well as its history and institutions.

The Master of Public Administration degree within MPA-EPM is conferred upon completion of a minimum of 54 credits of graduate level coursework with a GPA of 3.0 or higher. MPA-EPM students choose one of three focus areas: Economic Policy Management (EPM), Energy & Environment (E&E) or Central Banking and Financial Markets (CBFM).

MPA-EPM students who have previously completed a graduate degree in economics or a related discipline may apply to transfer up to twelve credits from their previous graduate degree toward the MPA in Economic Policy Management degree. Students who wish to apply for such transfer should contact the MPA-EPM Office prior to April 1st. Criteria for determining whether credits may be transferred will include: whether the course(s) in question was part of a completed graduate degree, the degree to which the course(s) in question relates to the MPA-EPM course(s) for which a transfer is requested, and the student's performance in the course(s) elected to be transferred.

The core of the MPA-EPM program consists of two three-semester course sequences in Macroeconomic Policy Management and Econometrics. This core is supplemented by courses in management skills and political economy. Students may choose additional elective courses offered at SIPA and other graduate schools at Columbia. Each course is built around real-world examples and case studies.

The Law School offers two graduate degrees beyond the masters level: Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.S.D.), and Doctor of Comparative Law (D.Comp.L.). While most students elect to receive the J.S.D., the D.Comp.L.will be awarded at the student's option if the same degree requirements are met.

In order to earn the J.S.D. degree, a candidate must produce a dissertation which makes a creditable contribution to legal scholarship. The dissertation must be supervised by at least two members of the faculty and must be completed within five years of the candidate's first registration in the J.S.D. Program.

A candidate must spend at least two years (six academic quarters) in residence at the Law School while working on the dissertation. Residence requires living in Chicago.

During the years in residence the candidate will be expected to participate in the academic activities at the Law School on a daily basis. This can include taking classes related to the dissertation, participation in the Junior Scholars Colloquium, regular attendance of faculty workshops and attending the weekly faculty Works in Progress lunches.

The Graduate Studies Committee expects that J.S.D. students will make satisfactory progress on their dissertations. They are also expected to keep in regular contact with their faculty supervisors. The Committee will initiate periodic review of J.S.D. candidates’ progress.

Transfer students may receive up to 39 credit hours towards their JD degree at the Law School (which is equal to what University of Chicago law students complete in their first year). Upon receipt of the transfer student's final official transcript from their previous school, the Office of the Registrar will issue a letter to the transfer student describing both the total number of transfer credits accepted and the transfer student's specific graduation requirements. Transfer students are eligible for graduation with honors based upon academic performance in the second and third years of law school at UChicago.

With one of the nation's premier doctoral programs in Communication, the Annenberg School is a tight-knit, supportive community of scholars committed to advancing knowledge of our media environment. The Ph.D. program allows students to tailor a curriculum to suit their specific interests, and provides them the financial resources to launch their academic career.

In addition to a full tuition waiver, the students currently receive an annual stipend as well as a budget for research and travel and health insurance for all five years.

The graduate program at Annenberg is designed to prepare students to obtain the Ph.D. While the students do receive a masters of arts, it is a research masters intended to function as a foundation for the doctorate.

The minimum course requirement for the Ph.D. is 20 courses. All Ph.D. students must take at least one separate course with each of at least five different ASC standing faculty members. The intent of this is to foster students’ knowledge of a diverse range of approaches to communication.

Students with a master’s Degree may request transfer of up to 5 courses. All transfer requests are considered on a case-by-case basis by the student's advisor and the Graduate Studies Committee. Students who receive credit for five transfer courses must complete the remaining 15 courses at the University of Pennsylvania. Transfer credit requests may not be submitted until the student has completed a full academic year at the school.

The normal course load is three courses per term, so students entering with a bachelor's degree will need 3 ½ years (or 7 semesters) to finish their coursework. Students transferring courses can shorten their time in coursework by 1 or 2 semesters.

Dartmouth undergraduates can stay for as little as one additional year and obtain an M.S. degree in Computer Science. You may reduce the number of courses required for the M.S. degree by up to five courses, so that you can get an M.S. degree with as few as eight additional courses in the coursework track or as few as four additional courses in the thesis track. The eligible courses are those that are cross-listed as graduate courses, as well as the courses available for graduate credit that are listed here. GRE scores are not required to apply for this program.

Often, students may have taken courses of rigor and subject matter comparable to or exceeding those of our graduate courses in universities other than Dartmouth and wish to get transfer credits for the same. Transfer credits for CS courses are approved by the director of each specific graduate program (MSCS, MSDA, PhD). At most 3 credits may be transferred into the MS program and at most 6 into the PhD.

The program leading to the degree of Master of Music provides for intensive development of performance skills, extensive knowledge of the literature in the major field of study, and achievement of a broadened knowledge of the art.

The Master of Music degree requires between 30 and 50 credit hours. The requirements for each degree must be satisfied with coursework at Peabody, certified transfer credits, or placement examination. Performance, Conducting, and Composition students are required to remain enrolled in one-hour major lessons for four semesters of full-time study. Musicology and Music Theory Pedagogy majors are required to maintain full-time enrollment for four semesters of study.

A maximum of six semester hours of graduate coursework completed at other accredited institutions may be applied to the Master of Music degree program at the discretion of the department chairs and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.

The Master of Music core curriculum consists of Music Bibliography and seminars in music theory and musicology. Full-time MM students are strongly encouraged to take Music Bibliography in their first year of study. Most MM students are also required to take two graduate seminars in musicology; see individual program descriptions for details. Before students may enroll in graduate seminars, they must take placement examinations during Audition Week and Orientation Week. Based on the results of these placement examinations, students may be required to enroll in review courses.

Northwestern University's MEM program is one of the founding members of MEM Programs Consortium (MEMPC). It consists of Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Purdue University, Northwestern University, Tufts University, and University of Southern California as its members.

MEMPC's vision is to raise the awareness of the Master of Engineering Management degree, expanding its value-added opportunities and forging business partnerships.

The MEM program recognizes that unexpected job transfers or career changes often necessitate terminating degree programs prior to the granting of a degree. For this reason, MEM allows limited transfer credit for up to 3 courses taken in a graduate program where a degree was not obtained. Applicants who think they may be eligible for transfer credit or course waiver should submit their request along with course description or syllabus at the time they submit their application.

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Washington University in St. Louis offers a master's degree and a doctoral program in Mathematics. Graduate programs are intended to provide students with a comprehensive perspective in advanced mathematics by providing a solid foundation of core courses. Applied mathematics researchers develop new mathematical theory and methods that are motivated by and aimed toward applications. Differential equations and dynamical systems, numerical analysis and scientific computing, image and signal processing, stochastic processes, and mathematical physics are some of the specific research topics.

The minimum residence requirement is one full academic year of graduate study. Thirty-six semester hours of graduate-level course work is required, with or without thesis, but six units may be for thesis research. If the department consents, a student may transfer up to six hours from other universities. A grade point average of "B" or better must be maintained in graduate course work.