What is the difference between transferring and waiving credits?
Transferring credits means that a student has already taken an equivalent graduate course at another university. Transfer credits may be counted as an elective or substituted for a required/optional course in the PhD. They can also be used to help reach the 60 required credits for a PhD courses may be waived if a student can demonstrate that equivalent experience or non-academic coursework has been completed in another setting, e.g., someone who has attended a Police Academy or special management training may already have been given the information from the professional development courses. Courses may be waived based on a series of different experiences that are equivalent to the course being waived.
