Transfer Students

Transfer students should meet with an MCDB advisor as soon as possible after arrival to review the CU equivalencies that have been given to their transferred credits, to determine which credits may be used for the MCDB major, and to develop an efficient plan for completion of the remaining requirements for graduation. Transfer students need to give special attention to the following items:

• Arts and sciences students must complete a minimum of 45 credit hours in University of Colorado courses on the Boulder Campus. Of these 45 credits, a minimum of 30 credits must be in the arts and sciences upper-division credit hours completed as a matriculated student in the Colleges of Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder and at least 12 of these upper-division hours must be in the major. A maximum of 6 credit hours taken at the other Univerisity of Colorado campuses (CU-Denver and the CU-Colorado Springs) can be counted toward the minimum 45 credits required on the Boulder campus. Courses taken while on CU-Boulder study abroad programs, through CU-Boulder continuing education, or CU-Boulder correspondence courses are considered to be in residence.


• At least 12 hours of upper-division credit must be taken in MCDB courses, including at least one of upper-division MCDB elective credit.


• If courses are transferred with lesser credit than equivalent MCDB courses, additional MCDB electives must be taken to satisfy the A&S required minimum of 30 hours in the major.


• If courses are transferred with lesser credit than equivalent MCDB courses, additional MCDB electives must be taken to satisfy the A&S required minimum of 30 hours in the major.


• Graduation requires 45 hours of upper-division credit. It is important to verify that upper-division transfer credit has been granted for upper-division courses from previous schools. Courses taken as lower-division at other schools will not be given upper-division credit even if the equivalent course is upper-division here.