Transfer Credit Policy

Manhattanville College welcomes transfer students and encourages the educational enrichment of all its students. The policies stated below are intended to facilitate the evaluation and awarding of transfer credit. Students are advised to consult with the appropriate department chair prior to enrolling in any course at another institution.

Coursework eligible for transfer must come from regionally accredited institutions or from non-regionally accredited institutions with comparable curricular and standards to those at Manhattanville College.

While the evaluation of transcripts is made by the transfer credit evaluator, the criteria by which equivalencies are determined and credits are accepted are established by the Manhattanville faculty.

Transfer credit may be earned prior to matriculating at Manhattanville and also while a student is a degree candidate, as for example during summer sessions or during a leave of absence.

Pre-approval for transfer credit is required of matriculated students who plan to take courses at institutions other than Manhattanville.

Courses submitted for transfer of credit must be:

• part of the normal undergraduate curriculum published in the institution’s catalog
• recorded on an official transcript of the credit-granting institution

If a student has an Associate's degree (AA, AS & AAS) and a cumulative GPA of 2.0 for all courses taken toward that degree, then he/she will receive full credit for all the courses successfully completed toward that degree.

Transfer students who hold an AA or AS degree from an accredited institution are exempt from completing Manhattanville College's General Education requirements. Please note that this exemption does not apply to those transfer students holding an AAS degree from an accredited institution.

Please Note:

• All external course work to be evaluated for transfer and posting to the student’s academic record must be submitted to Manhattanville College via an official transcript or appropriately certified document. The College reserves the right to determine the authenticity of all transcript records and may refuse to process transfer credits if questionable conditions exist.
• Except in cases of verifiable clerical error, transfer course work that has been evaluated and entered on the student’s academic record cannot be removed.
• After submission to Manhattanville College, official transcripts and documents become the property of the College and join the student’s permanent academic record. Documents will not be released in any form to a current or former student for reuse for any purpose.