Presentation to academic advisors who work with international students.

1. TRANSFERRING INTERNATIONAL
CREDITS TO IUPUI
Jennifer Reed

2. Transfer credit evaluation is an
Not a science.

3. THREE TOPICS:
Philosophy: A year
is a year
Transfer credit
evaluation is a
three-step process
What information
do students get?

4. PHILOSOPHY:
“A YEAR IS A YEAR”

5. “A YEAR IS A YEAR”
 OIA will award up to 30 credits per year
 EXAMPLE: If a student attended a foreign
university for two years and one semester:
 maximum credits awarded = 75
 Maximum credits awarded for a four-year
bachelor’s degree = 120

6. “A YEAR IS A YEAR”
Remind students that
it only takes 120 – 140
hours to graduate
at IUPUI

7. TRANSFER CREDIT EVALUATION
IS A THREE-STEP PROCESS

8. TRANSFER CREDIT EVALUATION IS A THREE-
STEP PROCESS
Step One:
Apply EARLY
and be admitted!

9. TRANSFER CREDIT EVALUATION IS A THREE-
STEP PROCESS
Step Two:
The Office of International Affairs (OIA) at
IUPUI will complete the initial evaluation of
transfer credits

10. TRANSFER CREDIT EVALUATION IS A THREE-
STEP PROCESS
 Here’s the difference:
 The Admission Center will ONLY accept official transcripts
from students to complete their application.
 OIA will accept copies
 Why?

11. TRANSFER CREDIT EVALUATION IS A THREE-
STEP PROCESS
 But this is the same:
 The OIA WILL NOT post any transfer credit to SIS until we
have official transcripts.
 What can be done to help the student?
 THE OIA WILL issue a “preliminary” evaluation

12. TRANSFER CREDIT EVALUATION IS A THREE-
STEP PROCESS
What Transfers? What does not transfer?
Accredited Unaccredited
100-Level + English courses
“C” grade Medical courses
Articulations We don’t offer it

13. TRANSFER CREDIT EVALUATION IS A THREE-
STEP PROCESS
Distribution
into specific
IUPUI
Initial courses
Evaluation
Be Admitted

14. STEP TWO: INITIAL EVALUATION
1. Determine level of credential
2. Check accreditation
3. Verify authenticity, official
4. Units? Hours? Full time? Part time?
5. Credit Ratio
6. Grading Scale

15. I INITIAL EVALUATION
1. Level: University, 4 years
2. Accredited
3. Unofficial
4. Hours, full-time
5. Credit Ratio: X 0.039
6. Grading Scale(Bottom left)
“C” = 45%

17. TRANSFER CREDIT EVALUATION IS A THREE-
STEP PROCESS
Distribution
into specific
IUPUI
Initial courses
Evaluation
Be Admitted

18. STEP THREE: DISTRIBUTION
ECON
Basic ECON E201
#100
Economics 3 Credits, Basic
3 credits, Intro to
Macroeconomics
Economics
Electric ECE #100 ECE 201
Circuits 2 Credits,
Electronic Circuits
3 Credits, Linear
Circuit Analysis I
MATH MATH #100
Math II #100 Course similar to
MATH 261, 4 credits,
2 Credits, Math II but not enough credits
for equivalency
WLAC WLAC #100
Americas
#100
Studies 3 credits
IUPUI Does not have
an equivalent course

19. WHAT INFORMATION DO STUDENTS GET?

20. WHAT INFORMATION DO STUDENTS GET?
Notification of
Preliminary or
completion of prelim
Posted
or posted eval
Bring any needed
Come to Orientation official academic
documents
What to do next? – Meet with academic
Get courses advisor first for
distributed advice

21. WHAT INFORMATION DO STUDENTS GET?
 Everything by email
 Five-page instructional document explaining
“undistributed” and “distributed”
 The steps to take to get courses distributed
 Examples of distributed courses
 Distribution form

22. WHAT INFORMATION DO STUDENTS GET?

23. WHAT INFORMATION DO STUDENTS GET?
 February 1: Apply to IUPUI and submit unofficial transcripts and a complete application.

March 1: Receive admission letter.

March 15: Receive a preliminary transfer credit evaluation listing “undistributed” transfer credit(courses
generally functioning only as electives)
 August 15: Arrivein Indianapolis
 August 16-20: During Orientation week:
 Attend orientation at IUPUI
 Submit official academic documents to the OIA
 OIA will post undistributed transfer credit to student’s IUPUI academic record and it can be viewed by student and
academic advisor in the student’s Onestart account
 Student will meet with academic advisor who will suggest which undistributed courses to work on getting distributed
first (changed from undistributed credits to specific IUPUI courses). Register for classes based on information from
placement tests and possible distributed transfer credit
 Take Distribution Form, course descriptions, copies of transcripts and other materials to the corresponding academic
departments.
 August 23: Start classes
 September 6: Academic departments return Distribution Forms to OIA
 September 10:OIA posts distributed transfer credit to student’s IUPUI academic record and can be viewed in
Onestart.
 November 1: Register for second semester (Spring)

24. Philosophy: A Year is a Year
Transfer Credit Evaluation is a Three-Step
Process
You can help your students by knowing what
information they already have

25. Jennifer Reed
Office of International Affairs
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
jenreed@iupui.edu