Transferring to NSU from an Out-of-State Institution
*Transfer student: any undergraduate student
with greater than six attempted credit hours, excluding remedial (0-level
courses) or pre-college work and excluding credit hours accumulated by
concurrently enrolled high school students.
Students lacking curricular requirements are admissible
into associate programs in the community colleges but must remove the
deficiencies at the earliest possible time within the first 24 hours attempted.
In addition, students must remove curricular deficiencies in a discipline
area before taking collegiate level work in that discipline.
An undergraduate student who wishes to transfer
from an out-of-state institution to NSU may do so under the following
conditions:
- If the student originally met both the high school curricular requirements and academic performance
standards, s/he must have a grade-point average high enough to meet
the current retention
standards.
- If the student originally met the high school curricular
requirements but not the academic performance
standards, s/he must have a grade-point average high enough to meet
the current retention
standards based on at least 24 attempted semester credit hours of
regularly graded (A, B, C, D, F) college work.
- If the student originally met the performance
standards but not the curricular requirements,
s/he must have a grade-point average high enough to meet the current retention standards and must also have completed the curricular requirements before transferring.
- If the student originally met neither the curricular
requirements nor the performance standards,
s/he must have a grade-point average high enough to meet the current retention standards based on at least 24 attempted semester credit hours of regularly graded
(A, B, C, D, F) college work and must also have completed the curricular
requirements before transferring.
Students must also meet the following additional
requirements:
- Transcripts from colleges or universities accredited
by the North Central Association or other regional associations will
be given full value.
- Each nonresident applicant must be in good standing in the institution
from which s/he plans to transfer.
- Each nonresident applicant must have made satisfactory progress
(an average grade of "C" or better or meet the current retention
standards, whichever is higher).
- Transcripts from institutions not accredited by a regional association
may be accepted in transfer when appropriate to the student's degree
program and when NSU has had an opportunity to validate the courses
or programs. Each nonresident undergraduate applicant must meet a-1
and a-2 above and will also be required to validate the transferred
credit by making satisfactory progress (an average of "C"
or better) for at least one semester.
Transfer Probation
Students who do not meet the academic criteria including curricular requirements
as noted above, but have not been formally suspended, may be admitted
as "transfer probation" students. Institutions may develop policies
and procedures, subject to State Regents approval, to guide the admission
of transfer students who do not meet the requirements. Such policies should
include that these students are admitted on probation and must maintain
a 2.0 grade point average each semester while on probation or raise their
cumulative GPA to the designated level, as detailed in retention
standards. Any "transfer probation" student with curricular
deficiencies must remove the deficiencies within the first 12 hours of
enrollment. Additionally, it is expected that institutions provide the
appropriate
academic support services to assist such students in achieving academic
success.