The General Education Transfer Policy outlines the purpose and guidelines for the transfer of general education across Kentucky's public postsecondary institutions.
The purpose of the Kentucky General Education Transfer Policy is to:
Emphasize aspects of general education requirements that are common among public institutions in Kentucky and encourages completion of approved AA/AS transfer programs.
Promote the acceptability of general education credits as students transfer from one public institution to another.
Enhance cooperation among institutions with respect to academic advising for undergraduates who plan to transfer from one public institution to another.
The policy requires a minimum of 30 unduplicated semester credit hours or the equivalent (may include a SACS justification for fewer hours) to meet the general education component of a baccalaureate degree. The core components of the policy include communication, arts and humanities, quantitative reasoning, natural sciences, and social and behavioral sciences, as outlined within the Statewide General Education Core.
The transfer of general education credits is predicated on the acquisition of competencies in broad academic areas, rather than on a comparison of individual courses taken at one institution or another. The issue is not how particular general education courses at the sending institution match up with general education courses at the receiving institution, but how the competencies and student learning outcomes in various general education programs are similar to one another.
Each institution recognizes the professional integrity of all other public institutions in the acceptance of their general education program.
Universities will recognize the completion of AA/AS transfer degrees (meeting all required transfer components) by admitting students to junior level standing and accepting the corresponding general education credits as meeting institution-wide lower-division general education requirements at the receiving institution. Students are encouraged to complete an AA/AS prior to transferring.
The General Education Transfer Policy applies to students who are accepted for admission into one of Kentucky's public higher education institutions. Students should be aware of the admission requirements of the institution into which they intend to transfer.
The General Education Transfer Policy applies to students who transfer from one Kentucky public higher education institution to another Kentucky public higher education institution with the intention of completing their educational program at the receiving institution. Students who intend to transfer credits back to their home (degree-granting) institution may be required to obtain prior written approval from their home institution. Guidelines for Implementation of the General Education Transfer Policy Page 4
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