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students, except that they must also submit scores on the Test
of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and show evidence
of ability to understand and use English sufficiently well to
succeed in their work at ACU. The Center for International and
Intercultural Education issues the 1-20 form, Certificate of
Eligibility, to international students admitted to the university.
International and international transfer applicants must arrange
to have an official transcript in English (mailed by the
registrar to ACU at the above address) from the high school
of graduation and each university previously attended. (To
ensure evaluation, the transfer applicant should provide a
catalog and syllabus in English.)
Transfer Admission
Transfer applicants must submit an official transcript from
each college previously attended and an official high school
transcript. To be official, a transcript labeled "official" by the
issuing institution must be transmitted in a sealed envelope
directly from the issuing institution to the receiving institution.
Admitted students who have 65 or more semester hours of
transferable college credit are not required to take the SAT
or ACT if they have met all General Education requirements
at ACU. They must be in good standing with the college or
university previously attended. Those on suspension at another
institution are not eligible for admission to ACU.
All course work from any institution, completed prior to
enrollment at ACU, will be evaluated according to the
following policy or according to a specific transfer articulation
agreement with the prior institution. How transfer credit is
applied toward an ACU undergraduate degree depends on an
evaluation of each course to determine its comparability in
content and semester-hour credit to a corresponding ACU
course or degree requirement. Accredited transfer courses may
be blocked to meet comparable requirements at ACU. When no
comparability is found, an accredited course is counted as an
elective. A course that carries more credit than the corres-
ponding ACU course or requirement is counted as equivalent;
the additional hours are counted as elective credit.
Grades for transfer courses (outside the intercollege agreement)
are not included in the student's GPA at ACU.
To be eligible to graduate with honors (summa, magna, cum
laude), students must have completed 64 hours of courses
at ACU.
Transferring Credit at the Time of Admission
1. Transfer courses with a grade of "C" or higher from
regionally accredited institutions will be posted to the
student's ACU record and may count toward hours in a
degree if the credits are appropriate.
2. Transfer courses will be posted at the same level they were
taken at a previous institution. ACU accepts only courses
equivalent or comparable to courses offered at ACU.
3. ACU does not offer nor accept college credit for
vocational/technical training or for work force
education courses.
4. Evaluation of transfer work intended to meet specific ACU
degree requirements is the responsibility of the chair of the
department offering the comparable course at ACU.5. No more than 66 semester hours of credit from a
community, junior or other two-year college may be
applied toward an ACU degree.
6. The maximum number of transferred credit hours that may
be applied toward an ACU undergraduate degree is 96.
7. A student who transfers four different exercise science
activity courses to ACU is exempt from taking EXSC 100.
(The maximum number of activity courses that may be
applied toward an ACU degree is four.)
8. Grades for transfer courses are not included in the
student's GPA at ACU.
9. See Bible Hours Required of Transfer Students for
information about how transfer hours affect general
education Bible requirements.
10. Students who transfer fewer than 22 hours that apply
toward an ACU degree are required to take University
Seminar (U 100).
Note for art majors: Credit hours transferred toward a degree
in art shall not exceed one-half of the credit hours within the
major. A minimum of 24 of the total advanced hours in studio
areas required for the BFA must be done at ACU.
Transferring Credit from Institutions that are Not
Regionally Accredited
Students wishing to transfer courses to ACU from institutions
that are not regionally accredited must:
* Complete one semester as a full-time student at ACU with
a GPA of at least 2.5.
* Provide course descriptions and academic credentials of
each instructor for the courses that are to be considered
for transfer.
* Request a transfer reevaluation after their first semester
at ACU.
During their first semester at ACU, students will qualify for
financial aid based only on the number of hours previously
earned at regionally accredited institutions, if any. After one
semester financial aid eligibility will be recalculated, upon
request, and based on the total number of hours that have been
awarded under this policy.
Bible Hours Required of Transfer Students
(University Core)
1. Students with Bible transfer courses:
Students will not be required to take more than 15 hours
(or 5 courses), including transfer Bible hours/courses as
long as they meet the following distribution requirement:
* Biblical text: at least one Old and one New Testament
course.
* Advanced Bible: (BGRK, BHEB, BIBD, BIBH, BIBL,
BIBM, or BMIS) at least one course.
2. Students with no Bible transfer courses:
The following calculations are based on the minimum
number of hours required for an ACU degree (128 hours).
The number of Bible hours for students with majors
requiring more than 128 hours is based on the 128-hourminimum requirement.
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