Undergraduate Transfer Admission

Applicants who have attended other colleges or universities are considered transfer students, regardless of the period of enrollment or amount of credit earned. Students seeking to transfer to The University of Alabama must meet the following requirements:

• Students must have official transcripts sent to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions directly from each college or university previously attended.
• Students who have attempted fewer than 24 semester hours (or 36 quarter hours) of collegiate work must also have official copies of their ACT or SAT scores and high-school records submitted directly to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions.
• An average of "C" (2.0 on a 4.0 scale) or higher for all college-level work attempted is required for admission in good standing. Some divisions may set slightly higher admission standards. Students who are ineligible to return to the last collegiate institution they attended will not normally be admitted.

Transferring from other UA campuses. Students transferring from The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) or from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) should file the general application for admission. Students who transfer from UAB and UAH are required to submit transcripts and to meet general transfer requirements for admission.

Transferring from two-year colleges in Alabama. Students transferring from two-year colleges in the Alabama College System may contract with The University of Alabama under STARS (Statewide Articulation Reporting System). The STARS program will guarantee the transfer and applicability of the two-year college credit under the following restrictions:

• This agreement will be honored for a period of three years from the date of the agreement. The student will be required to satisfy the requirements for graduation as described in the undergraduate catalog in effect at the time of execution of this agreement, provided, however, that UA may change such requirements if the student is given a reasonable opportunity to comply with the changed requirements. The student may choose to comply with the requirements in effect at the time of transfer.
• Under this agreement, the student must be officially admitted and enrolled at UA immediately following his or her tenure at the two-year college named above. Should the student enroll in another postsecondary institution during the interim, this agreement is void.

This agreement is subject to termination should changes in UA requirements be initiated by any agency outside University control. Such agencies include, but are not limited to, the State Department of Education, ACHE, SACS, NCATE, CLN, AACSB, ABET, and other accreditation agencies.

Conversion of credits. The University of Alabama is on the semester system. Credits earned as quarter hours, therefore, will be evaluated as semester hours. One quarter hour is equal to two-thirds of one semester hour — for example, a five-quarter-hours course equals three and one-third semester hours. However, when a student is seeking to transfer credit that will be applied to degree requirements, final authority for evaluating that credit rests with the academic division, which may use a different formula.

Admission on scholastic probation. If an applicant's overall average is less than "C" but the average would be sufficient for continued probationary enrollment at The University of Alabama (explained in the section "Student Records and General Academic Policies," p. 20), admission on scholastic probation may be approved by the dean of the school or college to which the student is applying. Students whose averages fall below the minimum required for continued enrollment may request special consideration for admission on scholastic probation, provided they have matriculated in college for less than three years.

Admission of transfer students as freshmen. At the discretion of the University school or college concerned, a transfer student who is otherwise qualified and who has attended another institution of higher learning may petition to discard all credits previously earned and to enter that division of the University as a beginning freshman on scholastic probation. This recourse is limited to students who have attempted no more than 20 semester hours of work. This choice must be made by the beginning of the student's first semester in residence, and, if the petition is granted, it cannot be revoked.

Transfer student orientation and registration. Attendance at an orientation/registration session (Bama Bound) is required of each newly admitted transfer student. Considerable assistance is available at each session, and the groups are kept small to encourage individual attention.