Transfer Students

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What is a transfer student?
Any applicant who has ever been enrolled at any post-secondary schooling (even if you took one course or did not complete a semester) is considered a transfer student.

To see how your credits will transfer to PSU, visit out transfer database. For additional questions on your transcript evaluation and how your credits apply to your degree please email psu-transcript-evaluation@plymouth.edu

Transfer Application Requirements

A completed application, either the PSU Panther Application or the Common Application (fee required) and an essay
Official copy of high school transcript or GED/HiSET scores. This requirement can be waived if an associates degree or higher has been earned
Official copies of all college transcripts, including grades from most recent semester completed, and cumulative grade-point average (GPA) of 2.0 based on a 4.0 scale on the final transcript from the institution you are currently attending or last attended (required for consideration)

Additional Requirements:

There are selective requirements for applicants seeking admission to PSU’s Art or Music, Theatre and Dance programs.
If you are a transfer student considering nursing, please email Ayla Steere. Please note, the deadline for Fall 2018 has passed.
International applicants who currently have an F-1 visa, or intend to apply for one, should see our information for International Students.

Admissions Deadlines

The application and all supporting credentials (see application checklist above) must be received by the following dates:

Application Deadlines

Fall Semester: May 1
Spring Semester: December 1

Deposit Deadlines

Fall Semester: May 15
Spring Semester: January 11

Candidates applying after deadlines may receive consideration on a space available basis. The University reserves the right to close admission prior to the above deadlines if enrollment has reached full capacity.

Merit-Based Scholarship

Merit-based scholarships are awarded based upon your GPA at the time of decision and are not adjusted based upon final GPA. Merit scholarships are renewable for up to three additional years, at the awarded amount (for a total of eight full-time fall and spring semesters). Notification of eligibility is included in your acceptance letter. All merit awards are evenly split between fall and spring semesters. A specific cumulative GPA is required annually to renew merit scholarships, as follows: Presidential and Dean’s: 3.0; Aspire: 2.75. Click here to see PSU’s merit-based scholarships!

Transfer Agreements

2+2 Agreements

Great Bay Community College

Lakes Region Community College

River Valley Community College

Manchester Community College

Nashua Community College

NHTI

White Mountain Community College

International schools:
Sunway University

Transfer Equivalency

Transferring Credits

Credit Transfer Policies

PSU will allow transfer credit from regionally-accredited degree-granting institutions for courses that are graded C or above or its equivalent (a grade of P in a Pass/No Pass course).
- Only credits are transferable from another institution, not grades. Grades from another institution will not appear on PSU transcripts nor will they be included in students’ GPAs.
  Exception: translocated courses, e.g. PSU course taught through Granite State College (GSC) within the University System of New Hampshire (USNH). Transferred translocated courses are included on the PSU transcript and treated as non-transferred courses. Grades earned in translocated courses are averaged into students’ PSU GPA, regardless of grade.
- Courses deemed developmental/remedial or vocational by either PSU or the transfer institution are not transferable.
- No academic credit is given for life experience or work experience.
- A grade of C- or CD is not equivalent to a C.
- For Plymouth State’s complete transfer credit policy, please review page 58–59 of the catalog.
If you received credit for a PSU course, you may not repeat an equivalent course credit at another institution. Only if you failed a PSU course may you repeat the course’s equivalent elsewhere.
A maximum of 90 transferred credits will be applied toward a PSU baccalaureate degree.
Cumulative GPAs for students entering PSU with transfer credits are established by PSU grades only. Transfer students are subject to the academic standards for satisfactory performance.
If you take a course at PSU for which you already have received equivalent transfer credit, your PSU enrollment will be changed to audit, and you will be notified; you may request to drop PSU course.
Courses from two-year institutions transfer to PSU as lower-level. Only if equivalency to an upper-level PSU course can be demonstrated through evaluation of course syllabi, sample texts and other documents by the appropriate PSU Department Chair, may courses transfer as upper-level.

Transfer Credit Procedure

Degree Planning

Additional Information

Plymouth State University offers official transfer credit evaluation to all accepted students.
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