Students who have completed course work at other accredited colleges or universities may be eligible to apply credit toward master's degree requirements at SJSU. To be transferable, the course work must not have been in professional development courses but must have been at the upper-division or graduate level, taken within seven years of the award of the degree from SJSU, and, if taken prior to applying for admission into the graduate school at SJSU, listed on the SJSU application.
Not less than 80% of course work required for the master's degree must be completed in residence. Therefore, for example, a maximum of 6 units can be transferred into a 30-unit graduate program. This total includes all transferred classes, including those from Open University and the SJSU undergraduate career. Additional transfer units are allowed under some circumstances by petitioning the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies & Research. Transfer work from another university may be applied toward the degree program if it is approved by the graduate advisor and was in courses that were accepted by that university's degree programs. The courses can include extension courses and correspondence courses provided the conditions above prevail. Courses transferred from other universities may not be revalidated if they go beyond the seven-year deadline.
For university approval of the transfers up to the 20% threshold for nonresidency units, the courses are entered on the Petition for Advancement to Graduate Candidacy in the SJSU Extension or Transfer Course section. The signature of the graduate advisor on this candidacy form is sufficient to indicate departmental approval of the courses without additional forms. If the courses meet all of the requirements stipulated above, the university will accept the courses for advancement to candidacy and for graduation requirements. Credit is awarded for transferred courses of all category, but grade points are not included in the cumulative GPA; therefore, the cumulative grade-point-average (GPA) calculation will not include those units nor will the GPA calculation for advancement to candidacy or graduation.
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