NC State Transfer Planner

Using the Transfer Planner

The Transfer Planner is an interactive tool that shows how your previous coursework transfers to NC State and fulfills degree requirements to help ensure your time and effort contribute toward degree completion. You can start using the Transfer Planner as early as your first day at your community college or as soon as you begin earning college credit.

• You may navigate the Transfer Planner as a guest to see how coursework transfers to NC State and fulfills degree requirements.
• Create an account to save your work and share your transfer details with collaborators.
• When you share your Transfer Planner with a college advisor, parent or counselor they can access all of your transfer details.

See How Your Courses and Test Credits Transfer and Fulfill Degree Requirements

• The Transfer Planner allows you to search from thousands of courses in NC State’s transfer course equivalency database. However, any new courses that have not previously been evaluated will not be available until the review process is complete.
• An official review of your transfer credit is completed during the application process, once your official transcripts are received by the admissions office.
• Select from NC State’s 100+ undergraduate majors to see how your transfer credit fulfills degree requirements.

Plan Your Transfer Coursework

• Transfer plans allow you to identify degree requirements early on in your college journey that you will need to complete an intended degree. This helps you select coursework at your current institution that will apply to your intended degree at NC State.
• Search for an NC State course and the equivalent course at your college here: webappprd.acs.ncsu.edu/php/transfer/.
• Enter in-progress or planned college courses to see how they fulfill degree requirements. When entering your transfer data, enter the grade for the course as IP for in-progress and Planned for future planned courses.
• If you are a North Carolina community college student, the Transfer Planner does not reflect eligibility under the Comprehensive Articulation Agreement (CAA). View CAA Transfer Guides for a list of the community college courses that both fulfill requirements for an associate degree and transfer to NC State for credit towards a baccalaureate degree.

Share and Collaborate on Your Transfer Plan

• Sharing your Transfer Planner allows your advisor or parent to make suggestions or updates to your transfer coursework and saved transfer plans.
• Advisors and parents must create an NC State Brickyard Account to access shared plans.

Understanding Your Transfer Credit Summary

NC State Transfer Credit Policy

NC State University awards credit for academic coursework successfully completed at other colleges and universities recognized by the accrediting agencies listed below.

College-level coursework completed at other colleges/universities that are accredited by US Department of Education-recognized institutional accreditors which are not listed may be eligible for transfer credit.

To receive credit, eligible coursework must be:

• Graded C- or better
• Documented on an official transcript from the institution of academic instruction
• Part of a baccalaureate degree program or an associate degree college transfer program

NC State does not award transfer credit for experiential learning, credit posted to third-party transcripts or from non-academic services and programs, or technical/vocational coursework that is not part of an existing bilateral, MOU or other articulation agreement. 

US Military Service coursework may be eligible for credit as per our Military Credit Articulation policy. 

Transfer Credit

Previously evaluated coursework automatically posts to student academic records with the current NC State course equivalency. Courses transfer as direct equivalencies, subject electives, General Education Program (GEP) shell courses, or general transfer electives.

The Department of Registration of Records oversees the transfer credit evaluation process and partners with the appropriate campus Department of Instruction to determine transfer course equivalencies. Part of the NC State mission as a transfer-friendly institution is to recognize the integrity of student transfer coursework with timely, consistent and appropriate credit evaluations while respecting our unique catalog and curricula. 

Transfer Course Grading

Transfer courses are assigned transfer grades that reflect the letter grades awarded by a transfer institution. For example, a grade of B+ will appear in a degree audit as “TB+.” Transfer grades are not part of a student’s cumulative or major GPA but are factors for degree requirements with a minimum grade or a CODA (a Change of Degree Application).

Understanding Your Transfer Plan

The Transfer Planner helps you create a plan to be a competitive applicant and navigate the transfer process. Any transfer plan created using this tool is for information only and will not be used in your admission decision or apply toward degree completion. An official transfer credit summary is provided upon admission to NC State.

The transfer plan shows all NC State degree requirements to complete the selected major. NC community college graduates of Associate of Arts and Associate of Science degree programs who are admitted will transfer with junior status under the North Carolina Comprehensive Articulation Agreement. View the NC State Transfer Guides to easily identify community college courses to add to your planner that fulfill requirements for your associate degree and requirements for your intended major at NC State.

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