KBOR Transfer and Articulation

Transfer is recognized as a crucial element within a seamless educational system. The purpose of this policy is to promote seamlessness in the public postsecondary education system in Kansas. A seamless educational system offers the best resources to provide a high-quality education for every student. It empowers and encourages students to reach their maximum potential through lifelong learning.

Kansas Board of Regents Transfer and Articulation Page
https://www.kansasregents.org/academic_affairs/transfer-articulation

General Transfer Provisions

1. Each Kansas public postsecondary educational institution shall establish its residency requirements, graduation requirements, and any admission requirements to professional or specific programs.
   
   
   1. Admission to an institution shall not equate with admission to a professional school or a specific program. 
   2. Except as provided in paragraph f. iii., students must complete all graduation requirements of the receiving institution. 
   3. Depending on program requirements, Students with a completed Associate degree who transfer into a professional school or specialty program may need more than two academic years of coursework to complete the baccalaureate degree.

    

2. Requirements for transfer of credits between and among Kansas public postsecondary educational institutions include the following:
   1. Transfer coursework must be transcripted in credit hours.
   2. Students transferring to Kansas public universities with a completed AA or AS degree shall be given junior standing.

    

3. Transfer of general education credit to and among Kansas public universities, including state universities and Washburn University, shall follow the requirements below.

   Although the following distribution of courses does not necessarily correspond to the General Education requirements for the bachelor’s degree at any Kansas public university, it shall be accepted as having satisfied the General Education requirements for the bachelor's degree of all Kansas public universities. A minimum of 45 credit hours of General Education with distribution in the following fields shall be required. General Education hours totaling less than 45 shall be accepted, but transfer students must complete the remainder of this requirement before graduation from the receiving institution, which may require an additional semester(s).

   1. 12 hours of General Education courses, including 6 hours of English Composition; 3 hours of Public Speaking or Speech Communication; 3 hours of college-level mathematics; College Algebra, and/or Statistics may be required by the receiving institution.

   2. 12 hours of Humanities courses from at least three of the following
      disciplines:
      Art*
      Theater*
      Music*
      Philosophy/Religion
      History**
      Literature
      Modern Languages
      
      

   3. 12 hours of Social and Behavioral Science courses from at least three of the
      following disciplines:
      Sociology
      Psychology
      Political Science
      Economics
      Geography
      Anthropology
      History**
      
      
   4. 9 hours of Natural and Physical Science courses from at least two disciplines
      (lecture with lab)
      
      *Performance courses are excluded.
      **The receiving institution will determine whether history courses are accepted as
      humanities or social sciences.

    

4. Many Board-approved system-wide transfer courses meet general education requirements at Kansas's public postsecondary educational institutions.
5. Although a transfer general education curriculum has yet to be established for associate degrees, the transfer curriculum is assumed to be a subset of the curriculum in paragraph f. iii. above.
6. Public universities may develop program-to-program articulation agreements for the AAS degree.
7. Completed technical programs (non-degree) and completed AAS degrees shall transfer according to option (1) or (2) below:
   
   1. As a block to articulated programs at community colleges, technical colleges, and universities with 
       program-to-program articulation agreements.
   2. On a course-by-course basis
        a. General education courses may be transferred according to paragraphs d.vi, f. iii, and f. v above.
        b. Substantially equivalent courses may be transferred course-by-course basis according to
             paragraph d.v. above.
        c. Other courses may be transferred as electives according to paragraph d.vii, above.
        d. Students who intend to transfer are responsible for becoming acquainted with the program and 
             degree requirements  the institution to which they expect to transfer.
   
   
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

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