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Transferring Credits to a Graduate Program at the University of Nevada, Reno
If you have taken graduate courses at another accredited institution, you might be able to transfer some of those credits to count toward a graduate degree or certificate at the University of Nevada, Reno. To do this, you will need to fill out the online form called the Credit Transfer Evaluation Request Form. This request must be approved by your advisor, your program’s director of graduate studies and the Graduate Dean. However, even if the program approves your request, this does not guarantee all the credits will transfer or count toward your UNR degree. You will find out which credits can be transferred by an email from the Graduate School; the results will go to you, your advisor and your program’s graduate director.
If you have taken graduate courses at the University of Nevada, Reno before, you might be able to transfer some of those credits toward a graduate degree or certificate without the completion of a special form. However, your advisor and your program’s director of graduate studies need to approve if they can count toward your degree. This occurs when you file the Program of Study form for your degree.
General rules
- Courses that received only a pass-file grade (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) are not eligible for transfer.
- You cannot transfer Research, Directed Study, Independent Study, Seminar, Colloquiums, Special Topics, Thesis, Dissertation, Practicum or Internships credits. You cannot transfer credits from Undergraduate Courses.
- If you were an undergraduate and you earned graduate units at another accredited institution, we cannot transfer these credits. There are two exceptions:
- If an appropriate official from your undergraduate institutions certifies that these graduate units were not used to meet the requirements of your bachelor’s degree, they are eligible for transfer.
- If you earned these graduate credits as an undergraduate, but you subsequently applied them to a graduate degree at another accredited institution, these graduate units are eligible for transfer.
Rules for Specific Types of Degrees or Certificates
- For Graduate Certificate Programs:
- Only courses with a grade of “C” or better can be transferred to a graduate certificate.
- You can transfer up to 3 credits from another school to count toward a graduate certificate.
- If you are transferring between graduate certificate programs within the University, you can transfer up to 6 credits.
- For Master’s Degree Programs:
- Only courses with a grade of “C” or better can be transferred to a master’s program.
- If your master’s program requires less than 50 credits, you can transfer up to 12 credits from graduate courses taken before you entered the program.
- If your master’s program requires 50 credits or more, you can transfer up to 21 credits from graduate courses taken before you entered the program.
- You can transfer up to 18 credits from graduate certificate programs you completed at the University of Nevada, Reno.
- For Doctoral Programs:
- Only courses with a grade of “B” or better can be transferred to a doctoral program.
- If you have already completed a master’s degree or doctoral degree at an accredited school, you can transfer up to 24 credits toward your doctoral program. Credits from completed degrees do not have to follow the rule that all doctoral coursework must be completed within 8 years.
- If you have taken graduate courses after earning your bachelor’s degree but did not complete a graduate degree, you can transfer up to 12 credits to a doctoral program.
- If you are earning a master’s degree as part of your doctoral program (called a “master’s en route”), you can transfer all credits from the master’s en route to your doctoral program.
- If you have already completed a master’s degree or doctoral degree, and you earn a master’s en route, you can either transfer all credits from the master’s en route, or transfer up to 24 credits from the previously completed degree(s). You cannot do both.
- What you can do instead is transfer 12 credits from a previously completed a master’s degree or doctoral degree to the master’s en route degree, and then transfer all credits from the master’s en route degree to a doctoral degree.
Definition: A master’s en route is a master’s degree that is either offered exclusively to doctoral students as they progress through the program, or a master’s degree that is available to doctoral students as part of the same organizational structure (e.g., a department or interdisciplinary graduate program) that offers both master’s degrees and doctoral degrees such that all coursework for the master’s degree meets requirements for the doctoral program of study.
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