A student may not count more than eight semester hours of
non-matriculated graduate work toward any graduate degree unless the
student's registration for more than eight semester hours is
specifically approved in advance by the School Director and the Dean
of the Graduate School. Graduate courses taken as an undergraduate at
the University of Utah cannot be counted towards a degree program
unless a petition for graduate credit was filed with the University's
Registrar at the time the course was taken.
Students who have done graduate study at other institutions may
apply appropriate course work to their program at the University of Utah. The
following guidelines apply:
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The courses must be bona fide graduate level class work (e.g.,
independent study is excluded), with grade B- or better.
The course work must
have been taken on a postgraduate basis, i.e., not have been used to fulfill
Bachelor's degree requirements.
- Credit may be given to M.S. students for up to six semester
hours, and up to 20 semester hours for Ph.D. students. Quarter hours
are converted to equivalent semester hours by a .66 multiplicative factor
(e.g., 9 quarter hours = 6 semester hours).
- Approval of each course is granted by the student's supervisory
committee. Course appropriateness is determined by consideration of course
content and the student's declared research area.
- Approved courses are certified by inclusion on the student's
Application for Admission to Candidacy for the M.S. Degree or
Program of Study for the Ph.D. Degree. (Henceforth, both these
forms will be uniformly referred to as ``Program of Study'' forms.)
These must be submitted by the end of the student's second semester of
study.
- Approval of a course taken elsewhere for transfer credit does
not imply fulfillment of any specific required course. A petition
form is available from the Graduate Coordinator for waiving required
courses. Normally, the Utah professor who most recently taught the
required course determines whether petition should be granted. This
can be done at any time, e.g., prior to filing the Program of Study
form. Petitions may be granted even if the course was applied to
complete Bachelor degree requirements (see the guidelines
for transfer credit).
- For Ph.D. students:
- Approval of courses taken elsewhere has no effect on comprehensive
and qualifying exam requirements. Some students may elect to complete a
course at Utah even though they may have taken a comparable course elsewhere,
to aid in preparation for these exams.
- Approval of courses taken elsewhere has no effect on University of
Utah residency requirements (see this
section).