what is a passport transfer course

Passport Transfer Class: Courses that are intended for transfer and are guaranteed to transfer as part of the 16 credits of General Studies Passport to Virginia’s public colleges and universities. Intended for Career Preparation: Courses that were designed to prepare students for careers rather than for transfer. While these courses were not developed to transfer, some do.

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What is a Passport transfer course at Nova?

The Passport is a college program in which all courses are transferable and satisfy lower-division general education requirements at any Virginia public institution of higher education. The Passport consists of course blocks assigned specific courses.

What is a Interstate general education Passport?

Interstate Passport is a program based at the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) that enables block transfer of complete lower-division general education attainment based on a set of multistate faculty-developed learning outcomes instead of on specific courses and number of credits.

What is an academic passport?

Academic Passport is your guaranteed admission to East Stroudsburg University (ESU). The Academic Passport program is designed to facilitate the transfer of students from Pennsylvania community colleges, Lackawanna College, and to support the transfer of undergraduate credits earned at other Pennsylvania State System Universities.

What is transfer guidance?

Transfer Guidance – tools to help assist you in your transfer planning to ESU.

What is a 30 credit transfer?

30-Credit Transfer Framework - Students who successfully complete courses from the approved Transfer Credit Framework will have their credits transferred and counted toward graduation at ESU.

Can you use vocational technical courses to satisfy general education requirements?

Vocational, technical, and career courses will not be used to satisfy general education requirements. A course by course match will not be required.

Does an academic passport guarantee admission?

However, Academic Passport does not guarantee admission into academic programs that have higher academic admission criteria or certain limited enrollment programs. For more information about these specific academic programs, please visit Transfer Admission Criteria .

How Interstate Passport Benefits You

Research shows that only 58 percent of community college transfer students are able to transfer most of their credits with them to their receiving institution. Fourteen percent of students lose more than 90 percent of their credits and the remaining 28 percent lose between 10 percent and 89 percent of their credits.

Earn a Passport

Earning your Passport is straightforward: courses that make up an institution’s Passport Block are the same courses in the institution’s lower-division general education curriculum, and most are required. Check to see that your college and the college you want to transfer to are members of the Interstate Passport Network.