All Students

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 transfer up to 6 credits to the University of Utah. The following guidelines apply:

1. The courses must be bona fide graduate level class work (e.g., independent study is excluded), with grade B- or better.
2. Students must be able to show that the course work was used toward any other degree.
3. Quarter hours are converted to equivalent semester hours by a .66 multiplicative factor (e.g., 9 quarter hours = 6 semester hours).
4. Approval of each course is granted by the student's supervisory committee and graduate studies. Course appropriateness is determined by consideration of course content and the student's declared research area.
5. Approved courses are certified by a transfer credit form.
6. Approval of a course taken elsewhere for transfer credit does not imply fulfillment of any specific required course. For more information on this see Sections 2.9 and 2.10.