Transfer Courses
Transfer courses are courses accepted for credit at St. Thomas and taken at another postsecondary institution that is accredited by an organization recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. Exchange courses, as described above, are not transfer courses.
Students who are seeking admission to the University of St. Thomas must have official transcripts of all previous college work sent to the Office of Admissions for evaluation by the University Registrar.
Students who have matriculated at St Thomas must forward transcripts from any other institution attended to the Office of Admissions for evaluation by the University Registrar.
All paper transcripts should be mailed directly from the institution of study to the following address:
University of St. Thomas
Admissions, Mail #5017
2115 Summit Ave
St. Paul, MN 55105-1078
All links and passwords to electronic PDF transcript downloads should be emailed directly from the institution of study to the following email address: admissions@stthomas.edu.
The University Registrar along with the Faculty Director of Transfer Courses, using official transcripts provided by the student’s previous schools, will assist the faculty to determine which courses may be used to fulfill St. Thomas degree requirements. Students may be asked to provide additional materials supporting the use of transfer courses. The university may require transcripts from foreign schools to be submitted to an evaluation service for processing before considering them. A fee may be charged for this service.
The information about transfer courses that is provided in the “Transfer Credit Tool” applies to transfer courses taken both prior to matriculation as well as after matriculation. If a student who has matriculated at St. Thomas and thereafter wishes to enroll in a course that is not on the Transfer Credit Tool the determination of whether a post-matriculation transfer course fulfills the criteria for a core requirement or for a major or minor field requirement must be determined by the appropriate academic unit; this should be determined prior to the student enrolling in the course. Though academic units are encouraged to use course descriptions for making transfer course determinations, an academic unit may require students to submit the syllabus for any potential transfer course they hope to apply to a major, minor, or core requirement.
In some cases, if a transfer student is bringing in a significant amount of transfer courses, and if the course-by-course evaluation leaves many potentially relevant courses applying only as electives, the student’s transcript may be holistically evaluated by the Faculty Director of Transfer Courses working with faculty and deans to determine whether a group of courses could work together to meet the spirit of a particular requirement (core, major, minor, certificate).
Post-Matriculation Transfer Credit Limit
Students who first become degree-seeking at St. Thomas beginning with the fall 2013 semester and for all subsequent semesters may count a maximum of 8 additional transfer credits taken after the date of matriculation at St. Thomas toward core requirements, with no more than 4 of those credits counting toward any one core requirement area (for instance, Language and Culture or Literature and Writing). This limit applies only to post-matriculation transfer credits and therefore does not apply to courses taken through a UST study abroad program or through the ACTC.