Advising and Academic Services
Transfer and AP courses CANNOT be used to meet the Contemporary Challenges (CCO/CCD) or Writing and Communication with Revision (WCr) learning goals. These learning goals must be satisfied by taking Rutgers University-New Brunswick courses.
Transfer courses that have been evaluated by the cognate department at Rutgers and determined to be the exact equivalent of Rutgers University-New Brunswick courses certified to meet the NS, HST, SCL, AH, WCd, QQ, or QR goals may be used to meet Core Curriculum learning goals.
A Rutgers course number is divided into three parts. The first two digits are the administrative (school) code, the next three digits are the subject code, and the final three digits are the course code.
Administrative or School Codes - 00:XXX:XXXThe most common administrative (school) codes you will see on your transfer evaluation and when registering for courses include:
01 - School of Arts and Sciences (SAS)04 - School of Communication and Information 07 - Mason Gross School of the Arts 09 - School of Social Work 10 - Edward J Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy11 - School of Environmental and Biological Sciences 33 - Rutgers Business School-New Brunswick37 - School of Management and Labor Relations TR - transfer course
Subject Codes - XX:000:XXXA subject code comprises the third through fifth digits in all course numbers and indicates the subject matter of the course. The subject code T01 signifies a transfer course equivalent for a SAS general elective, liberal arts distribution requirement, or course filling a SAS Core learning goal.Course Codes - XX:XXX:000The course code comprises the sixth, seventh, and eighth digits in all course numbers. Course codes from 100 to 299 indicate introductory and intermediate undergraduate courses. Codes from 300 to 499 indicate advanced undergraduate courses. Some transfer course codes end with two or three letters instead of a three-digit number. Letter codes stand for the following:
AHP = fulfills Arts and Humanities AHp core goalEC = Elective creditHST = fulfills Historical Analysis core goalNS = fulfills Natural Sciences core goalQQR = fulfills Quantitative and Formal Reasoning Core Goal
You're taking a big risk that the class you take will not be transferable in your specific situation. Don't risk it! Submit a preapproval request for each class you would like to take outside of Rutgers-New Brunswick and wait for a response via email from the Transfer Center.
Probably! Like all other classes, you'll need to obtain departmental preapproval.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), including those taught through Coursera, are not transferable to SAS.
NO! You must meet the eligibility requirements to take a class at Rutgers-New Brunswick in order to be granted preapproval to take it anyplace else.
Actually, you can't do that. All transfer courses transfer with credits only. Grades do not ever transfer between one academic institution and another.
You need to earn at least a grade of "C".
No, you need to request to have it sent to the following address: SAS Transfer Center Lucy Stone Hall, Room A-204 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 54 Joyce Kilmer Avenue Piscataway, NJ 08854 The transcript sent or hand-delivered must be an official transcript. If hand-delivered, it must be in an unopened envelope from the sending institution with the registrar's seal or stamp across the flap.
The School of Arts and Sciences requires that transcripts from Chinese institutions be submitted with a verification report from the China Higher Education Student Information and Career Center (CHESICC) https://www.chsi.com.cn/en/ to be considered official. Any transcript that does not include a verification letter from CHESICC will not be evaluated.
CHESICC does not verify summer or winter sessions for English-language based programs in China or Taiwan. The summer programs are often offered by third-party collaboration with a traditional university in China, Taiwan, or Korea serving as the host campus. The School of Arts and Sciences does not accept transfer credits from any of these programs, including those in cooperation with United States schools (ex: Seminole State University in Florida and Fontbonne University in Missouri).
Yes, a maximum of 60 credits from two-year institutions, a maximum of 90 credits from four-year institutions, and no more than 12 of the last 42 credits earned for the degree may be transfer credits.
Yes, please see the Transfer Courses page to seek preapproval. Please indicate that you are a school-to-school applicant on the top of the form.
Students transferring from a NJ Community College can use NJ Transfer to assess course transferability. We require a grade of "C" or better for a course to transfer.
Students transferring from a four-year college or university can make the general assumption that classes completed with a grade of "C" or better in an academic department offered at Rutgers University will be accepted for transfer credit. These courses may or may not be utilized to fulfill major requirements but will generally receive a minimum of elective academic credit. Please note that this is a general guideline only and should not be considered a guarantee of any sort.
You will receive your personalized transfer evaluation via email 4-6 weeks after you have committed to Rutgers by paying your enrollment fee.
NJ Community College courses have been pre-evaluated on njtransfer.org. If the course you’d like to have evaluated was taken outside of a NJ Community College, you can bring your syllabus from the specific course and a Transfer Course Departmental Evaluation Form to the department advisor and ask for a review. If the advisor determines the course is equivalent to an RU course, they will fill out the form and you should return it to any SAS Advising Center.
The Core requirements are very specific. If you believe your course is directly equivalent to a course that is on the Core, you should bring your syllabus from the specific course and a Transfer Course Departmental Evaluation Form to the related department advisor and ask for a review. If the advisor determines the course is equivalent to a Rutgers course, they will fill out the form and you should return it to any SAS Advising Center.
