UUC has not entered into an articulation or transfer agreement with any other college or university. To transfer credits to programs of study, students must submit official transcripts from the previous institution to the UUC Registrar’s Office for evaluation. Official transcripts are reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
Maximum Transfer Credits
[DEAC’s Credit Transfer Policy. See DEAC’s Accreditation handbook, page 92]
Undergraduate Degrees
The institution may award a maximum of 75 percent of the credits required for a degree program or a combination of transfer credit and experiential or equivalent credit (including challenge/test-out credits). Courses accepted for transfer credit are relevant to the program of study and equivalent in both content and degree level. Credit awarded for experiential or equivalent learning cannot exceed 25 percent of the credits required for a degree.
Master’s Degrees
The institution may award a maximum of 50 percent of the credits required for a master’s degree program through transfer credit. Courses accepted for transfer credit are relevant to the program of study and equivalent in both content and degree level.
UUC considers student requests to transfer previously earned transcripted course credits into a degree program using these guidelines:
- Transfer requests will be evaluated based on the similarity of course descriptions, not titles. Course descriptions will need to be similar to UUC course descriptions. UUC may require additional materials about the course students are asking to be transferred, such as a course syllabus and catalog, in such cases where these materials cannot be accessed from the website of the institution from which students have taken the courses which they are requesting to transfer.
- All transfer credit requests will be seriously considered. Generally, courses from an accredited institution that is accredited by one of the formal accrediting agencies will be considered for transfer credit. For master level, only courses with a grade of “B” or better will be considered for transfer credit.
- A student may only transfer credits into a UUC program that have been transcripted at the same level. The university does not allow a student to transfer credit into a program that has previously been transcripted on a different level degree program.
- Courses completed for a degree program from which you have graduated may not be transferred.
- Students considering enrolling in a course from another institution with the intent of transferring the credits from that course into their UUC academic program should ask for a course review first before enrolling in the course.
Students are allowed to transfer up to the following credits:
- Master of Arts in Ministry – 6 credits
- Master of Divinity – 12 credits
- Doctor of Ministry – A maximum of 4-semester units beyond the master’s degree may be transferred for the MDiv-based track or 8 units for the MT-based track.
Notice Concerning Transferability of Credits and Credentials Earned at Our Institution
The transferability of credits you earn at Union University of California is at the complete discretion of an institution to which you may seek to transfer. Acceptance of the degree you earn in the educational program is also at the complete discretion of the institution to which you may seek to transfer. If the credits, degree, or certificate that you earn at this institution are not accepted at the institution to which you seek to transfer, you may be required to repeat some or all of your coursework at that institution. For this reason, you should make certain that your attendance at this institution will meet your educational goals. This may include contacting an institution to which you may seek to transfer after attending Union University of California to determine if your credits, degree, or certificate will transfer.
Experiential Learning Policy
UUC does not yet award credit for prior experiential learning.
Credit by Examination Policy
College credit may be earned through standardized subject examinations. Up to 30 undergraduate credits can be accepted from official standardized subject examination score reports.
Students will not receive dual credit for exams and courses in the same subject. If a student is eligible for credit from both a college course (taken at or transferable to UUC) and from an exam, the exam credit will be forfeited.
National standardized examination programs include:
- Advanced Placement Program (AP®) exams
- College Level Examination Program (CLEP®) tests
- DANTES Subject Standardized Tests (DSST®)
- Excelsior (UExcel®) exams
- Foreign Language Achievement Testing Service (FLATS) exam
- International Baccalaureate (IB®) exams