Can a student transfer courses to the Ph.D. program that were taken at another university, whether or not a degree was received?
There is no fixed limit for transfer courses from other institutions. However, all transfer credits must be approved as part of the student’s program plan by his or her guidance committee and confirmed by the program coordinator and associate dean for student affairs. This means that the question of whether transfer courses will count cannot be firmly resolved until the second year of a student’s enrollment, when the program plan is approved by the student’s guidance committee. The central question is always: what courses will best serve the student’s program needs. Realistically, students should not expect to transfer in a large number of courses from another institution, since the student’s program plan will need to reflect the student’s particular focus area in his/her doctoral studies. There is one set of requirements that is more often open to transfer: the inquiry and research methods requirement. It is difficult, nevertheless, to imagine an appropriate program plan that would in
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