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Transferring Credit 
  • No more than one-half the total units required for a master's degree may be transferred.

  • A student may petition to transfer courses completed at another UC campus (including UCSD Extension) for up to one half of total UCSD master's degree unit requirement (TEP: 10 units from another UC campus or UCSD Extension), a maximum of eight quarter units of work completed at an institution other than UC may be transferred (including TEP). In any case, no more than a total of one half of the units required for the master's degree may be transfer units.

  • Eligible course work may not have been used to fulfill the requirements of any other degree, and must have been completed with a B- or better grade and must have been taken prior to enrollment as a graduate student at UCSD.

  • A Student must submit proof that the course work to be transferred was not used to satisfy requirements for any other degree program. Degree checks or letters from provosts/deans may be used.

  • Official transcripts of transfer course work must accompany the petition OR be on file at OGS.

  • Under no circumstances will transferred work be included in calculating a student's GPA nor will it appear by class on the transcript.

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