Transfer Courses
Transfer Courses (Including University College and Sever Institute of Continuing Studies courses)
Engineering Student Services Office is responsible for determining whether a course is transferable to the daytime programs. In any case, the course must have a grade no lower than "C-" to be transferable. Courses taken elsewhere on the pass/fail grading system are NOT transferable, since the grade of "D," while considered as passing, is not sufficient for transfer.
Decisions as to the transferability of courses taken at other institutions are made on a course-by-course basis. When Engineering Student Services completes the evaluation, the course is added to the School's "Evals" database.
Washington University has two academic divisions that are primarily for students who typically have full-time jobs and come to campus for a course or two in the evening. The University College office is responsible for courses associated with the College of Arts & Sciences, and the Sever Institute of Continuing Studies office is responsible for engineering and technology courses. The entrance requirements in programs offered by these divisions are different from those in daytime programs. Thus, the School treats these courses as if they were taken at another institution (i.e., when a course is acceptable as a transfer course, some or all of the course's units may transfer, but the grade does not). The School's "evaluated courses from other schools" database shows which courses may and may not be transferred into the daytime programs.
Please follow the steps below to transfer course credit from another school to Washington University.
Students must earn at least a "C" grade in the course ("B" if for ECOMP 100) for the units to transfer to Washington University. Courses taken "online" are not accepted as transfer credit. Grades do not transfer to Washington University. Students who wish to repeat (retake) courses taken at Washington University for a better grade, must retake those courses at Washington University, and not retake them at a different institution. Repeated courses taken at a different institution will not be accepted as transfer credit.
Please keep in mind that no university is required to accept transfer credit from another institution. As a courtesy to our students, we will accept PRE-APPROVED courses, if students follow the prescribed approval process. The approval process takes several weeks to complete. For summer courses, students should submit all required documents (described below) to the Engineering Student Services’ Office before April 1. The office may not have adequate time to approve summer transfer courses that are submitted for approval after April 1.
After a pre-approved course is completed at another institution, an official transcript from that institution should be sent directly to the Engineering Registrar's Office within four weeks of the course being completed. After an official transcript is received from the other institution, the transfer credit will be posted to the student's Washington University record before the next semester's pre-registration cycle on campus (by October 1 for spring pre-registration).
Students should have official transcript from the other school sent directly to:
Engineering Student Services
Campus Box 1100
Lopata Hall, Room 303
One Brookings Drive
Washington University
St. Louis, MO 63130
Step 1: Check our database to see if the course has already been approved.
View courses from other institutions that have already been approved by reviewing our Outside Course Evaluations Database.
If the course you wish to take is already listed in the database above, there is no other action you need to take to get the course approved. After you complete the course, simply have the official transcript sent to the Engineering Student Services Office.
Step 2: If the course is not listed in the database above, follow the process below to have the course pre-approved:
Review our Guidelines for Approval of Transfer Courses [PDF] which describes how to transfer coursework back to the School of Engineering.
If a student wishes to transfer computer science courses, it is important to review the CSE Transfer Course Evaluation Procedure posted by Professor Sally Goldman in the Computer Science and Engineering Department.