General Education Requirements
The College encourages applications from transfer students, particularly from community colleges. Transfer students are admitted in the fall and spring. Applicants must submit official transcripts of all previous college-level work along with their final high school transcript. Upon acceptance, all transcripts will be reviewed by the Registrar's office. The Mount accepts credits from regionally accredited institutions, similar to courses offered at the Mount in which a grade of C or better is earned (except as noted below).
Students with an Associate of Applied Science (AAS) or an Associate of Science (AS) in Nursing (RN to BSN major) who enter the nursing program are awarded transfer credit for acceptable liberal arts and science courses. Sciences over ten years old can only be considered for the RN to BSN program. Courses in nursing taken in an associate degree program are not transferable to the bachelor's degree program in nursing at Mount Saint Mary College. Students who have been accepted into the RN to BS program will have their transcript from their pre-licensure nursing program evaluated and up to thirty (30) Nursing credits will be accepted.
Transfer courses or Mount Saint Mary College courses, used by a returning student after a significant absence, may not be used toward the degree if the courses are not consistent with current requirements. The specific courses affected by this policy will be identified and evaluated by the respective divisions. MSMC will NOT accept a course equivalent to CIT 1052 if it was taken 10 years ago or more.
Students transferring to Mount Saint Mary College with the Associate of Arts (AA) degree or the Associate of Science (AS) degree in a major taught at the College are awarded full junior status and guaranteed 60 credits of transfer. For certain programs, students transferring under community college articulation agreements will be allowed to graduate with up to 45 earned credits in their major, as detailed in the articulation agreements. Students with an Associate of Applied Science (AAS) in business, who enter the business program, are awarded full junior status and guaranteed 60 credits of transfer. Credits equivalent to the junior college's requirements for the AA or AS degree (to a maximum of 66 credits) will be accepted only for grades of C or better. C-, D+ and D grades will not be accepted for any part of the maximum award. D grades may be used to bring the transfer credits to the guaranteed minimum level of 60 credits.
Students may transfer a maximum of ninety (90) acceptable credits from a baccalaureate program and must complete the remaining thirty (30) credit minimum at Mount Saint Mary College, including at least twelve (12) upper level credits in their majors. Students with an AAS in nursing who are in the RN to BS in nursing program are awarded full junior status and guaranteed sixty (60) credits of transfer. Transfer courses or Mount Saint Mary College courses, used by a returning student after a significant absence, may not be used toward the degree if the courses are not consistent with current requirements. The specific courses affected by this policy will be identified and evaluated by the respective divisions.
Students transferring from Mount Saint Mary College with an Associate of Arts (AA) degree, and Associate of Science (AS) degree, or a bachelor’s degree from a State University of New York (SUNY) school will be accepted having met the Mount Saint Mary College General Education requirement, provided the student has taken at least one 3-credit course in Philosophy or Religious Studies. If the student has not taken a 3-credit course in Philosophy or Religious Studies, one three-credit course will be required in one of these two areas to meet the graduation requirements.