Requirements & Limitations

Each institution of higher education shall identify in its undergraduate catalog each lower division course that is substantially equivalent to an academic course listed in the current edition of the “Community College General Academic Course Guide Manual.’’

1. Each university must identify at least 45 semester credit hours of academic courses that are substantially equivalent to courses listed in the “Community College General Academic Course Guide Manual’’ including those that fulfill the lower-division portion of the institution’s core curriculum.
2. All public colleges and universities must accept transfer credit for successfully completed courses identified in (a) and (b) above as applicable to an associate or baccalaureate degree in the same manner as credit awarded to non-transfer students in that major.
3. Each institution shall be required to accept in transfer into a baccalaureate degree the number of lower division credit hours in a major which are allowed for their non-transfer students in that major; however,

(1) No institution shall be required to accept in transfer more credit hours in any major than the number set out in the applicable Coordinating Board approved Transfer Curriculum for the major, as prescribed by the current issue of the Coordinating Board’s guide to transfer curricula and transfer of credit, Transfer of Credit Policies and Curricula.

(2) In any major for which there is no Coordinating Board approved Transfer Curriculum, no institution shall be required to accept in transfer more lower division course credit in the major applicable to a baccalaureate degree than the institution allows their non-transfer students in that major.

(3) A university may deny the transfer of credit in courses with a grade of “D’’ as applicable to the student’s major.

1. All senior institutions of higher education in Texas shall provide support services for transfer students’ equivalent to those provided to non-transfer students regularly enrolled at the institutions, including an orientation program for transfer student’s equivalent to that provided for entering freshman enrollees.
2. No university shall be required to accept in transfer or toward a degree, more than sixty-six (66) semester credit hours of academic credits earned by a student in a community college. Universities, however, may choose to accept additional credit hours.