Transfer Course Review
Interested in transferring to UConn's School of Business? Outlined below are 6 steps representing the most common questions our office receives about transferring coursework to the School of Business. Please note official coursework evaluation doesn't take place until after a student has been admitted, and is conducted by the Admissions Office at the University of Connecticut.
All eight critical courses must be completed to be eligible to transfer directly into a Business major.
Step 1
Transfer Equivalencies
You can reference the UConn Admissions Transfer Course Equivalences website to see if your current institution is listed to get a general sense of UConn equivalencies. Note that you can use this as a guide, but no transfer credit evaluation is official until credits appear on the student's University of Connecticut transcript.
Even if your institution is not listed, you can complete steps 2-6. In all cases, coursework will not be able to officially be evaluated until you have applied to the UConn School of Business and have been accepted. Advisors review this information with you at Orientation. Following steps 2-6 will give you a general idea of the courses you need to be complete (Student records cannot be reviewed by Advisors until the student has been accepted to UConn's School of Business and signs up for Orientation).
Step 4
Check Off Courses
Check off the courses from you desired major's Plan of Study based on the courses listed on your current transcript. Any remaining courses on your transcript that are not listed on your major Plan of Study will be considered electives if accepted for credit by the Admissions Office.
School of Business students are required to complete 60 non-business credits and this a great place for those elective credits (that come in as non-Business subjects) to count towards the non-business requirement.
Step 2
Comparing Your Courses
Use your unofficial transcript(s) at your current institution(s) to compare the courses at UConn using the UConn Admission Transfer Course Equivalences page for listed institutions.
For any institution not listed, or courses not listed specifically on the above website, you can look at your institution's course catalog and compare course descriptions to UConn's Undergraduate Catalog, to get a sense of what may be similar.
Step 5
Obtain Course Syllabi
If there are courses you believe fulfill a School of Business requirement, it is best that you electronically save your syllabi from that course. If admitted, when you are at Orientation, an Advisor will show you where you can submit the syllabi (online webform) for review for possible substitution for a degree requirement (Course Substitutions, outside of critical pre-requisite courses, cannot be reviewed until the student has been accepted to UConn's School of Business and has attended Orientation).
Step 3
Major Plans of Study
The Undergraduate Programs Office website lists all the different majors in business. Each major has a specific major Plan of Study which outlines each course needed over the course of 8 semesters.
The sequence given in the sample sequence is a general guideline for all students in the School of Business. Keep in mind your plan of study will be dependent on your requirement term (or catalog year), which is the year you are admitted to the School of Business.
Step 6
Further Course Evaluation
To see if you can receive credit for completion of business courses at another institution, you must obtain the course syllabi for the course and provide your unofficial transcript from your institution to be evaluated by a faculty member at the School of Business. This process will be reviewed with students at orientation if pertinent.
Refer to the School of Business transfer course evaluation procedures (Course Substitutions, outside of critical pre-requisite courses, cannot be reviewed until the student has been accepted to UConn's School of Business and has attended Orientation).