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TRANSFER POLICY

Transfer courses are approved if they have been taken at an institution that has been accredited by any one of the 21 accrediting organizations listed in Accredited Institutions of Postsecondary Education; including state-based, career-related, and faith-related accrediting organizations.

TRANSFER CREDIT CRITERIA


Students who wish to have credits earned at other institutions applied toward fulfillment of their course of study at Hilbert upon acceptance should check with the Admissions Office for an evaluation of these credentials. Current students should consult with their academic division.

  • Students may transfer a maximum of 90 credit hours for a bachelor degree program

  • Students may transfer a maximum of 45 credits for an associate degree program

  • Students must earn a minimum grade of C- at the transfer institution in order to receive transfer credit at Hilbert College.

  • In certain instances, College policy regarding an acceptable passing grade in a required and/or prerequisite course may necessitate that a student repeat a course in order to meet the minimum standard required of all Hilbert students

    • Lab sciences C- or better

    • Accounting C or better

  • Remedial courses are not accepted as transfer credits

  • All transfer students must submit a high school transcript and all transcripts signifying completion of courses for college credit.

  • Hilbert College accepts credits for examinations such as Advanced Placement (AP), College Level Examination Placement (CLEP), International Baccalaureate program (IB), and Defense Activities Non-Traditional Education Support (DANTES, or DSST), etc. Minimum grade requirements have been established for such exams.

    • AP – 3 or higher

    • CLEP – 50 or higher

    • DSST – 400 or higher

    • IB – 4 or higher

  • If a student is intending to follow a pre-health track, they may be required to take all lab sciences at the college level. Please contact Dr. Habib Bakht (hbakht@hilbert.edu) to discuss these requirements further.

  • Transcripts must be submitted directly from the organization in which students completed their coursework.

    • If a student took college credit through a high school program, the transcript must come directly from the college that sponsored the course.

  • All final official transcripts must be received by Student Records by the final withdrawal date of the student’s first semester at Hilbert. If official transcripts are not received by the set deadline, a registration hold will be put on the student’s record.

  • The division chair, in consultation with appropriate division faculty, will determine the acceptance of transfer credit for a major specific course that is over 10 years old. If the course is not accepted, the student has the option to appeal one time through their academic division with additional/supporting documentation.

  • Only credit is transferrable; grades, quality points and cumulative averages do not transfer

  • Pass/Fail grades will only be considered for transfer if the credit granting institution has a written policy stating that to receive a “P” grade, the student must receive a C- or better. Hilbert College recognizes that many schools put policies for pass/fail in place in the Spring 2020 semester to address the COVID-19 pandemic and will waive the above for courses that received a “P” during Spring 2020 only.

TRANSFER CREDIT EVALUATIONS


A trained evaluator reviews all transfer credits after a preliminary review is performed by Admissions. Transfer courses that may be equivalent to required course work are reviewed by an evaluator; if the evaluator is unable to determine course work equivalency from the course description, it will be sent to the appropriate chair for review and equivalency evaluation.

General Education Requirements

  • If the student has earned 60 credits or more from an accredited college or university, liberal arts courses may fulfill any outstanding general education requirements without meeting direct equivalency; a course-by-course review is not required

  • If the student does not have 60 or more credits, courses will be reviewed on a course-by-course basis and given an equivalent course acceptance.

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER CREDITS


Students who attend colleges outside of the United States are required to provide a transcript from a professional foreign credential evaluation service. For consistency in foreign evaluators, Hilbert recommends World Education Services (WES) or Josef Silny and Associates, Inc.. If, however, it is not possible to obtain an evaluation from either of these evaluation services or if the student has had their credits evaluated by another foreign evaluation service, we will give transfer credit as long as said service is a member of The National Association of Credential Evaluator Services (NACES).

ADVANCED PLACEMENT/CREDIT BY EXAMINATION


Hilbert College recognizes college-level work completed in high school under the Advanced Placement Program of the College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB). Student work that receives a rating of 3 to 5 on the advanced placement (AP) examination will be considered for college credit and/or advanced placement status. Hilbert College also participates in the New York State College Proficiency Examination Program (CPEP) and the College Level Examination Program (CLEP) established by the College Entrance Examination Board Determination of appropriateness of test and level of performance as applicable to credit are determined by the College.

INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE (IB)


Hilbert College recognizes International Baccalaureate programs and will grant academic credit for only higher level (HL) IB exams with a minimum grade of five. A student who has earned the IB Diploma will be awarded a maximum of 30 credit hours. The IB transfer credit will be applied toward major, core curriculum, or elective course requirements. Major credit will be determined in consultation with department chairs. Students will not receive additional credit for AP exams that duplicate credit awarded from the IB exam(s). If a student does not attain the IB Diploma but presents individual Higher Level examinations with scores of five or above, he/she will receive three credits per examination (depending on the Hilbert College course equivalency).

Specialized articulation agreements exist with several high schools and Board of Cooperative Education Services (BOCES) Centers in the Western New York area. These relationships assist students in the transition from the secondary level to the college level by acknowledging their completion of certain unique course offerings at their schools. In general, students who are enrolled in these programs or courses receive three benefits: