You may receive transfer credit for courses at accredited institutions of higher education as long as the courses parallel Georgia State’s curriculum. The department administering the degree program determines how credit hours may be used to satisfy specific course requirements and may elect to test the student’s proficiency in transferred course work.

Transfer Credit Guidelines

• To estimate your transfer credits, review our transfer equivalencies.*
• Development, vocational and occupational courses are not acceptable for transfer credit.
• You can apply no more than 12 semester credit hours of D grades — whether as resident credit (completed at Georgia State) or transfer credit — toward your degree requirements. No credit will be awarded for a course completed at a foreign institution with a grade that is equivalent to a D in the U.S.
• To be acceptable for transfer credit, English composition courses must have been completed with a grade of C or higher.
• Additional restrictions for transferring D grades may be included in certain degree programs.
• Courses completed at two-year colleges are typically awarded lower-division credit.
• You can earn no more than 30 total semester hours by extension or correspondence.
• Georgia State does not grant credit for college-level General Educational Development tests or courses completed at the United States Armed Forces Institute or any U.S. armed forces service school, except for military academies.

Academic Residence Requirement

To earn a bachelor’s degree from Georgia State, you have to satisfy our academic residence requirement:

• Earn 39 credit hours at Georgia State for courses numbered 3000 or higher with a grade point average of at least 2.0.
• Complete one-half of the courses that constitute your major or 11 credit hours in the major, whichever is less, at Georgia State.

Note: You cannot use credit by examination, credit by validation, credit earned through College Level Examination Program tests or Advanced Placement courses, or credit for courses specifically excluded by university policy to meet the academic residence requirement.

*This information is for reference only and does not automatically guarantee or preclude the transferable course credit. Equivalencies are subject to change upon official evaluation by Georgia State.

To qualify for in-state tuition, you must establish Georgia residency. Here’s how that works:

• You or your parent(s) must have lived in Georgia for at least 12 consecutive months immediately before your enrollment at a college or university.
• If you entered Georgia to attend an educational institution, your time in school is not normally counted toward the 12-month residence requirement.
• Your “legal residence” is your permanent home.
• You must not only live in Georgia but also intend to remain in Georgia indefinitely.

For more information, contact the Enrollment Services Center.