UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
TRANSFER CREDIT GUIDE SUMMARY
September 2009
| Academic Unit | Transfer Credit Policies with | Nature of Agreement |
| School of Arts and Sciences (A&S) | Butler County Community College Community College of Allegheny College* Community College of Beaver County Harrisburg Area Community College Westmoreland County Community College |
Each of the transfer credit guide stipulates which courses at a particular community college count for which courses at Pitt and binds the School Arts and Sciences to accept those particular courses as specified in the booklets. Many courses from other schools have no equivalent in A&S. These courses are generally accepted as "elective courses." The A&S deans regularly make decisions to allow some transfer courses to meet certain requirements if the courses in question "meet the spirit" of the requirement |
| College of Business Administration (CBA) | Butler County Community College Community College of Allegheny County* Community College of Beaver County Harrisburg Area Community College Westmoreland County Community College |
The current transfer credit guides with each of these institutions allow students to take between 30 and 45 credits prior to transferring. A sixty-credit articulation agreement was recently signed with the Community College of Allegheny County to offer a CCAC/CBA parallel program. |
| School of Engineering | Allegheny
University (see Articulation Agreement)* |
The transfer credit guides with CCAC permits students who complete the equivalent of the freshmen engineering curriculum (ten specific courses) with a QPA of at least 2.8 to transfer into the department of their choice. Students who have completed the equivalent of the first year, but have less than a 2.8 may apply for transfer, but must be accepted by the department. Students who meet the grade requirement but not the course requirement, may apply to transfer into the freshman engineering program. The transfer credit guides with the remaining schools follow a 3/2 arrangement |
| College of General Studies | Bucks
County Community College (Police Administration)
Community College of Allegheny County (Other Programs) Community College of Beaver County (Other Programs) Harrisburg Area Community College (Other Programs) |
The transfer credit guides stipulate the maximum number of transferable credits and the grade requirements for each major. |
| School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences | Butler County Community College Community College of Allegheny County* Community College of Beaver County Harrisburg Area Community College Westmoreland County Community College |
These transfer credit guides were developed primarily to encourage students from the Associate Degree Programs in Diet Technician to attend the baccalaureate degree programs in Dietetics and Nutrition. There are also three options for CCAC students interested in the Emergency Medicine Program:1) CCAC Parallel EM Program, 2) CCAC EM Prerequisite Program, and 3) CCAC Paramedic Program. |
| School of Information Sciences | Butler County Community College Community College of Allegheny County Community College of Beaver County Harrisburg Area Community College Westmoreland County Community College |
Course equivalencies have been articulated for each institution. A transfer packet for each institution provides the basic skills and general educational requirements to enable students to plan their curriculum and achieve maximum transferability of classes for admission to the B.S. in Information Science Program. |
| School of Nursing | Community College of Allegheny
County Community College of Beaver County Harrisburg Area Community College Westmoreland County Community College |
There are two categories of transfer students who apply to the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing: the R.N. applicant-a student who has completed his/her basic nursing education in a hospital or associate degree program, and transfer students interested in obtaining their basic nursing education. |
| University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg | Westmoreland County Community College | Credit Transfer Guide |
| University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown (UPJ) | Allegany Community College ( Maryland ) | Course equivalencies based on previous acceptability allow for ease of advising, though no formal articulation is in place. |
| *Also listed under articulation agreements |