Office of the Registrar Transfer Credit Policies

A. GENERAL TRANSFER POLICIES

  1. Coursework must be taken at institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) or by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) for the level of credit awarded. Foreign institutions must be recognized by their country's official regulating agency on education. Only coursework taken while the institution was recognized will be accepted.
  2. Credit from junior (two-year private or community) colleges is limited to 64 semester or 96 quarter transferable units. Once the unit maximum has been reached, no additional units will be accepted from community, junior, or two-year colleges, (i.e., units taken after the unit maximum has been reached may not be substituted for any of the units already accepted).
    1. All junior college work is considered lower division.
    2. Academic departments may or may not accept transferred courses from community, junior, or two-year colleges to complete upper-division major requirements.
    3. The transfer units may be taken prior to admission to Westmont or during summer sessions or breaks in enrollment. (See “Graduation Requirements Senior Residency”). Courses not listed on the Transfer Agreements on the Registrar's website require pre-approval by the Student Records Office prior to beginning the transfer course work.
  3. Only courses with grades of C- or better will be accepted
  4. Courses taken Pass/No Credit may not be applied to General Education (GE), Major or Minor requirements and are only transferable if the transcript states P=C- or above.
  5. Credit will not be given for repeated courses, unless F, or NC was earned the first time. The transferred course will not replace the original F or NC Westmont grade in Westmont GPA calculations. 
  6. Credit will not be given for technical-vocational courses (e.g. EMT, Real Estate, Interior Design etc.).
  7. Credit will not be given for courses remedial in nature.
  8. Transfer grades are noted for information only; they are not computed into a Westmont GPA.
  9. The conversion of quarter units to semester units is: 1 quarter unit equals 2/3 semester unit.
  10. Transfer courses used to meet General Education (GE) requirements must be at least 3 semester units or 4 quarter units with the exception of PEA courses. 
  11. Institutions/courses without set term dates are not transferrable. 

B. AREA SPECIFIC TRANSFER POLICIES

BIBLE COLLEGE Normal transfer credit consideration is given for courses from Bible colleges accredited by The Association for Biblical Higher Education.
https://www.abhe.org
   
CREDIT FROM NON-ACCREDITED COLLEGES Westmont makes an individual assessment based on the information available. Courses/units, from an unaccredited college, will be considered for acceptance after a successful year (2.0 minimum GPA, full-time enrollment) at Westmont. Student must submit re-evaluation of transfer work request form.
 

 
CONSORTIUM Credit will be given for approved courses taken at consortium colleges and applied as if taken at Westmont. Approval of courses should be sought before student visits.
 

 
LANGUAGE Credit will be given for college-completed language courses, regardless of the secondary level completed.
 

 
MATHEMATICS Credit will only be given for College Algebra and above.
 

 
PHYSICAL EDUCATION Except for declared Kinesiology majors, credit will be given for only one (1) P.E.A. ACTIVITY course per term. Credit will not be given for repeated courses (except varsity sport) unless they represent advanced sections of the same activity. The transcript must clearly represent this.