Transfer Credit Policies
One of the many advantages of transferring to CUNY Baccalaureate is that your transfer credits will be determined during the application process and explained to you upon your formal acceptance to the program.
CUNY Baccalaureate evaluates all courses previously taken and can accept up to a total of 90 credits from regionally and New York State Board of Regents accredited colleges. Effective for Fall 2011 admissions, CUNY Baccalaureate will accept up to 68 community college credits toward the degree.
All credits earned within CUNY are recognized within the parameters stated above. Credit may be granted for courses taken at other institutions in which students received a grade of at least a full “C”. Remedial and English-as-a-Second Language credits are not accepted toward this degree. Credit for life experience is evaluated after admission to the program.
Credits from universities outside the United States must be evaluated by the student’s CUNY college of matriculation (home college) or by a course-by-course evaluation by World Education Services (www.wes.org) prior to applying to CUNY Baccalaureate. Students with international credits who are not matriculated in a CUNY college should begin the process of becoming matriculated immediately.
When a CUNY college has exempted a student from the college’s Foreign Language requirement, CUNY Baccalaureate will do the same (with proper documentation); the program does not recognize any other CUNY course exemptions.
U.S. Military Credits
CUNY BA can award up to 30 military credits. Students with U.S. military training/course credits can have their AARTS or SMART transcript sent electronically to CUNY BA; hard-copy official transcripts for the Army, Navy and others (i.e., the Coast Guard, DANTES examinations, etc.) are acceptable, as well.
CUNY BA’s transfer credit will mirror the credits shown on these transcripts; for example, 3 credits for “Organizational Leadership” on the AARTS transcript will be the same on the CUNY BA transcript. Military training courses identified as liberal arts credits, while fairly rare, can be applied to CUNY BA’s core distribution (i.e., Social Psychology or Geology). Otherwise, military credits serve as elective credits.
68 credits can transfer in from the Community College for the Air Force, since CCAF is an accredited associate’s degree-awarding institution.
Students can also receive credit for ROTC courses when those are presented on official college transcripts.
CUNY BA does not give credit for military service alone, only for military training courses taken. Students seeking military service credit may apply for that through CUNY BA’s life experience evaluation, which is conducted after admission. See this page for details: http://cunyba.gc.cuny.edu/lifeexperience/
Students who receive 30 military credits from CUNY BA will have reached the maximum number of credits in the degree’s noncollegiate credit category; they will not be able to then add additional credits by exam or life experience.
The guidelines cited here are essentially the same for FDNY and NYPD credits.
Credits Recommended by ACE or National CCRS
CUNY BA can transfer in courses recommended for college credit by ACE (American Council on Education – http://www.acenet.edu/) and National CCRS (National College Credit Recommendation Service – formerly known as NPONSI – http://www.nationalccrs.org/).
These two organizations have faculty who review, evaluate and recommend college credit for courses and training offered at a wide range of institutions, such as banks, museums, police academies, religious organizations, etc. Note that many of the institutions who offer courses that have ACE or National CCRS recommended credits also offer other courses that are not recommended for college credits; be mindful of this as you choose your courses. The ACE and National CCRS Websites list the participating organizations and the specific courses they recommend for college credit.
ACE and National CCRS recommended credits enter the CUNY BA degree as “noncollegiate credits;” the maximum number of noncollegiate credits a student may have applied to the CUNY BA degree is 30.
To request the application of ACE or National CCRS recommended credits to your CUNY BA degree, have the institution where you took the course(s) send CUNY BA an official transcript which details the ACE or National CCRS recommendations. If these courses were taken prior to your applying to CUNY BA, the transcripts must be received as part of your CUNY BA application.
