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Credit Transfer

St. Thomas now accepts the Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC)! Transfer students who complete the MnTC will satisfy almost all core curriculum requirements here.

There are a lot of ways for you to earn college credits – advanced placement tests, community colleges classes and courses from other four-year institutions. And as long as the courses are coming from a regionally accredited institution, they'll likely transfer. The bigger question is how. Will they come in as requirements for our core curriculum, your major or as enhanced courses (electives)?

For a comprehensive credit evaluation, we encourage you to contact your admissions counselor. They can give you an unofficial degree evaluation that explains our core and major field requirements and estimates how long it might take you to graduate from St. Thomas.

Notice: Current St. Thomas students must speak with their academic counselor to learn about the pre-approval process for transfer courses. Academic Counseling & Support can be reached at (651) 962-6300.

Transfer Credit Tool

Our transfer credit tool will help to determine how your college credits from other institutions will transfer. This could include PSEO, dual-credit courses, College in the Schools and more.

 

Lookup By Core Area

Have a certain core area you want to fulfill? See which courses you can take at other schools to do it.

Lookup By Core Area

Lookup by State

Find schools in your state that offer courses already known to be transferable to St. Thomas.

Lookup by State
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Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC)

All transfer students who complete the MnTC will satisfy our undergraduate core curriculum requirements after completing the following at St. Thomas:

  • One additional theology course
  • One additional philosophy course
  • A transfer student specific experience during orientation
  • The Capstone experience

Please note this policy ONLY applies to transfer students and does NOT apply to first-time, first-year students (those who have not taken college credit as a degree-seeking student since high school graduation). 

Core Curriculum

The set of requirements that all students must fulfill to graduate from St. Thomas.
View Core Curriculum

Advanced Placement Credits

We accept credits earned from Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB), CLEP and A-level exams, depending on your scores.
See Advanced Placement Requirements

Community College Course Guides

We offer guide sheets that indicate the specific community college courses that meet St. Thomas' core curriculum requirements.

View Course Guides

Frequently Asked Questions

Generally, the University of St. Thomas accepts liberal arts courses taken at a regionally accredited college or university if the final grade was a C- or higher.

Courses are evaluated on a case-by-case basis to determine if they are equivalent to any of our core curriculum requirements or a student’s major field requirements. If there is no direct match to a class required in either of these two areas, the class will transfer in as an enhanced course (elective).

See the map at the bottom of this page to see if your school is regionally accredited.

The Transfer Credit Tool is not a comprehensive list of courses offered at any one institution. These are simply the courses we’ve seen in the past. To determine the transferability of courses not listed, please contact your transfer admissions counselor.

The Transfer Credit Tool is accurate to the best of our knowledge and ability at the time of publication, but is subject to change.

Credits received from online classes are evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

After you are accepted to the University of St. Thomas, an official degree evaluation will be completed by our Registrar’s Office and mailed to you. For a preliminary unofficial evaluation, please contact your admissions counselor.

International coursework is accepted by St. Thomas and is required to be disclosed at the time of application. Please contact your counselor for more information.

You must submit a course syllabus for evaluation.

Syllabi should include the following:

  • Student’s name
  • Professor’s name
  • Institution’s name
  • Class title
  • Number of credits
  • Textbook(s) and other required materials
  • Detailed schedule of the topics covered
  • Grading guidelines

Syllabi should be emailed to your admissions counselor.

You may submit a petition to have your course reevaluated. 

A course syllabus is required for every petition. 

Syllabi should include the following:

  • Student’s name
  • Professor’s name
  • Institution’s name
  • Class title
  • Number of credits
  • Textbook(s) and other required materials
  • Detailed schedule of the topics covered
  • Grading guidelines

Syllabi should be emailed to your transfer admissions counselor.

Confirming Accreditation

To make sure your school is regionally accredited, click on the state where your school is located.