Conditions for Transfer Admission

Graduates who are considered transfer students, as defined by Integrated Postsecondary Education System (IPEDS), are students who attended a college or university following graduation from high school (or obtained a GED). Transfer students shall be admitted to a public institution of higher education in Ohio if meeting the following criteria:

  • Have associate degrees conferred by Ohio public institutions.
  • Completed and approved Ohio Transfer 36.
  • Cumulative grade-point average is at least 2.0 for all previous college-level courses.
  • Met any other institutional admission criteria, such as space availability, adherence to deadlines, payment of fees, and grade-point average that are fairly and equally applied to all undergraduate students.
  1. Qualified transfer students shall be able to compete for admission to specific programs on the same basis as native students of that institution. Transfer students shall have admission priority over graduates with an out-of-state associate degree and other students with transferable and/or articulated college credit.
  2. Associate degree holders who are considered transfer students and have not completed the Ohio Transfer 36 from an Ohio public institution of higher education are eligible for preferential consideration for admission as transfer students as long as the institution’s admission criteria, such as the minimum academic standards, space availability, adherence to deadlines, payment of fees, and grade-point average, are fairly and equally applied to all undergraduate students.
  3. In order to encourage completion of the baccalaureate degree, students who are not enrolled in or who have not earned an associate degree, but who have earned 60 semester or 90 quarter hours or more of credit toward a baccalaureate degree from an Ohio public institution of higher education with a cumulative grade-point average of at least a 2.0 for all previous college-level courses, are eligible for preferential consideration for admission as transfer students as long as the institution’s admissions criteria, such as the minimum academic standards, space availability, adherence to deadlines, payment of fees, and grade-point average, are fairly and equally applied to all undergraduate students. 
  4. Students who have not earned an associate degree or who have not earned 60 semester hours of credit with a grade point average of at least a 2.0 for all previous college-level courses will be eligible for preferential consideration for admission as transfer students.
  5. Incoming transfer students admitted to a college or university shall compete for admission to selective programs, majors, and units on an equal basis with students native to the receiving institution.

Admission to Rhodes State College does not guarantee that a transfer student will be automatically admitted to all majors, minors, or fields of concentration at the institution. Once admitted, transfer students shall be subject to the same regulations governing applicability of catalog requirements as native students. Furthermore, transfer students shall be accorded the same class standing and other privileges as native students on the basis of the number of credits earned. All residency requirements must be completed at the receiving institution.