Transfer Credit

The maximum is 132 hours of transfer credit from a four-year institution or a two-year/four-year combination. Only 99 hours may be transferred from a two-year institution. Please note that all course work in the senior year, including the final 60.0 credit hours, must be completed at DePaul. This is the "Senior Residency Requirement." Students reach senior status when they have earned 132.0 quarter hours. Under rare and extenuating circumstances, the residency requirement may be waived using the LAS Exception to Policy request form.

Yes, with permission. Note that one-half of major and/or minor field courses must be taken at DePaul University. Transfer credit approval request forms, as well as other academic administrative  forms are available through the LAS administrative forms library.

You can often get this information from the webpage “Transferring Your Courses.”  Once on this page, you might find the “Transferology” section especially helpful. Students transferring from community colleges are also encouraged to consult the “Transfer Guides” section developed specifically for them.

Please remember, however, that there are limits to the number of courses that you can transfer, and all courses taken by DePaul students at other institutions must be approved for application toward DePaul degree requirements. See the other questions and answers about transfer credit in this FAQ.

Domain electives can be any approved Liberal Studies learning domain courses outside your major field, except those for which you have already received equivalent credit.

This varies widely from student to student.

Transfer allocation is done by the LAS College Office. They accept the Illinois Articulation Initiative General Education Core Curriculum (IAI GECC) as a general education core if a student successfully completes the IAI curriculum before transferring and this is indicated on the student's official transcript. In addition to the IAI “package,” however, these students must also complete the Experiential Learning requirement and the Capstone seminar, as well as four domain electives chosen in consultation with a DePaul University academic advisor. Appeals of transfer credit allocation may be filed with the LAS College Office.

Please note that students cannot earn credit for the same class through both transfer credit and a DePaul course. Thus, students should be careful NOT to enroll in any courses for which they have already been granted (or expect to receive) transfer credit. (Please also note that equivalent courses at DePaul are likely to have very different course numbers, and sometimes even different departments; for example, ENG 101 at another institution might transfer into DePaul as WRD 103.) 

Students in the Honors Program should direct questions about transfer credit to Honors advisors.

Courses are placed this way by the College Office according to guidelines set by the University Articulation Coordinator. These decisions are made in the College office, which has guidelines in place for substituting transfer credit on the student transcript. In these cases, the courses are not equivalent to DePaul courses. Sometimes, the college will request a syllabus of the course taken at another university to determine its eligibility for DePaul credit (particularly Liberal Studies credit). You may begin the appeal of a placement by emailing TrAC@depaul.edu.

DePaul University accepts AP credit according to the following schedule:

Note: 12 credits maximum for 2 or more AP History exams with scores of 4 or 5.

Please note that students cannot get credit for the same class through both a DePaul course and AP test scores. Thus, students should be careful NOT to enroll in courses for which they have already earned credit through AP tests.