College credits earned at accredited collegiate institutions are acceptable for transfer based upon the following:

• The course must be comparable in content, goals, and level to the Argosy University course or content area for which credit is sought.
  
• The course must have been completed at a college or university that is accredited by an appropriate regional or national accrediting agency. In the case of institutions outside the United States, the appropriate state (or its equivalent) or national accreditation is required.
• Total transfer credit accepted will not exceed 90 credit hours or its equivalent. No more than 78 lower-division credit hours will be accepted. The program in which the student is enrolled determines the maximum number of credit hours eligible for transfer, and therefore the total number accepted may be less than 90 credit hours.
• The number of hours of standardized testing credits accepted will not exceed 30 credit hours or its equivalent. The program in which the student is enrolled determines the maximum number of standardized testing credits eligible for transfer, and therefore the total number accepted may be less than 30 credit hours.
• The course must have equivalent number of credits as the Argosy University course.
• The course must have been taken for degree credit.
• Students must have earned a grade of "C-" or better for any course submitted.
• Official transcripts are required for transfer credit to be considered.

For coursework completed at other institutions, official transcripts are required for transfer credit to be considered. Courses submitted for transfer credit are evaluated by our educational services department. In general, a lower-division course completed at another institution will transfer as lower-level credit, even when Argosy University offers the course at the upper-division level. Similarly, upper-level courses completed at another institution will transfer as upper-division credit, even when Argosy University offers the course at the lower-division level. Exceptions to this policy may occur in the case of established course equivalencies with institutions that have a transfer or articulation agreement with Argosy. A student may petition for recognition of a successfully completed lower-division course as an upper-division course with appropriate documentation (e.g., a copy of the course syllabus).

Students may be required to provide a copy of the catalog description and/or the course syllabus from the institution where the credit was awarded to validate that the course satisfies the transfer credit criteria.

College credits completed are acceptable for transfer under the following conditions:

• Transfer of credits requests are not granted until students have been accepted into a program of study.
  
• The course must have been a graduate-level course, taken for equivalent graduate-level credit at a regionally accredited college or university or nationally accredited college that is part of a program approved and documented by the faculty and dean of the appropriate college of Argosy University. In the case of institutions outside the United States, the appropriate state or its equivalent or national accreditation is required. "Equivalent graduate-level credit" refers to both content and degree level of the course.
  
• Students must have earned a grade of "B" or better for any course submitted.
• Transfer credit maximums by program
• Master of Business of Administration: 9 credits
• Doctor of Business Administration: 12 credits
• Master of Arts in Education: 9 credits
• Doctor of Education: 12 credits
• Program Chairs may determine that certain courses are not eligible for transfer of credit.
• Argosy University does not accept for graduate credit any credits earned as military credit, credit by examination, credit by correspondence, credit for life experience, or graduate credit from nonaccredited schools unless offered in an approved program or under an arrangement approved by the faculty and dean of the appropriate college of Argosy University or otherwise provided for in this catalog.
• Official transcripts are required for transfer credit to be considered.
• Students may be required to provide a copy of the catalog description and/or the course syllabus from the institution where the credit was awarded to validate that the course satisfies the transfer credit criteria.
• Argosy University will accept a maximum of 6 credit hours of graduate-level continuing education toward elective credit in a degree program if offered through The Connecting Link, an approved partner of Argosy University, and approved as transfer credit by the faculty of the degree program.
• Final decisions on accepting graduate-level continuing education coursework as transfer credit are made by the program and campus in which the student is enrolled; therefore, students are not guaranteed that coursework will be accepted for transfer until they have applied for and received approval from the campus dean or program chair of their program.