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For incoming transfer students to SUNY Niagara
With your Admissions Application to the College, you are required to submit transcripts from ALL prior institutions. Transfer students must make a formal request for an official transcript from the Registrar’s Office at the previous college(s) attended.
Note: AP credits need to be submitted through College Board, 2-year and 4-year Colleges and Universities need to be sent from the Registrar/Records Office, and you can request your U.S. Armed Forced credits can be sent via DD214 Form, and/or American Council on Education (ACE) Registry Transcript.
CAUTION: Students must disclose all prior institutions attended and send official college transcript from each. Failure to do so could result in a reversal of admission decision.
Applicants are encouraged to submit standardized test scores (e.g., SAT or ACT) as part of the application process for admission. If submitted, these tests will be used only to determine if the student must take the College placement tests. It is important to note that you must be accepted into SUNY Niagara before scheduling placement tests (except for those programs, including allied health programs, which require testing PRIOR to acceptance).
SUNY Niagara’s Transfer Credit Evaluators follow the College’s Transfer Credit Policy and Procedure
For prospective transfer students to SUNY Niagara
We know you want to plan ahead, so we provide several options for transfer students to determine what credits may transfer to SUNY Niagara! If you have already applied to SUNY Niagara, your official transfer credit evaluation will be completed once you are accepted to SUNY Niagara.
Want to see how your transfer courses will transfer to SUNY Niagara? Wondering how they will fulfill degree or certificate requirements? Now you can check online with TREQ!
Use TREQ to enter your transfer credits and see how they apply to SUNY Niagara’s coursework and degree requirements!
Click here to get started with TREQ
Keep in mind:
Please note: If the course or college/university does not appear in TREQ, then it has not been evaluated to date – See option 3 below.
*This report should be used as a guide to help you understand how coursework taken at another college or university MAY equate to classes at SUNY Niagara and how those classes may apply to SUNY Niagara’s degree or certificate requirements. This report is not a promise of admission and is not official notification of completion of degree or certificate requirements. Students must still apply and be accepted to SUNY Niagara before a formal transfer credit evaluation will be completed. This audit is not an academic transcript. For assistance with interpreting this audit, please contact transfer@niagaracc.suny.edu.
Students may also utilize our online Course Equivalency Guide to determine if coursework taken at another college or university will transfer to SUNY Niagara.
If the course or college/university does not appear in the Transfer Course Equivalency Guide, then it has not been evaluated to date – See option 3 below.
If your course or college/university was not listed on Transfer Equivalency Self-Service or the Course Equivalency Guide and you would like to know if coursework taken elsewhere will transfer to SUNY Niagara, you can complete our form to request an unofficial evaluation of your transcript. You will need to upload a copy of your unofficial transcript to the form.
Exploring your transfer options? You can quickly find out how completed or in-progress courses will transfer using SUNY’s simple lookup tool. Just enter your course details to see how they match up at one or more SUNY campuses—no login or account needed!
AP Scores are not sent on the high school transcript. You must submit your official scores to SUNY Niagara via College Board.
You get one free score send through My AP. You must sign in to My AP (www.collegeboard.org) to indicate the college, university, or scholarship organization that you want to receive your one free score send. Students indicate their score send recipient on their answer sheet on exam day.
You can send scores online anytime for a fee. You can order as many score reports as you want after scores are released.
All CLEP exam registrations come with a free score send, which must be used when you register. However if you do not select a score recipient institution during registration or you wish to send your scores to additional institutions, you can request official CLEP transcripts for exams via My Account through a secure online checkout process through College Board (www.collegeboard.org). These additional score reports can be ordered for a fee of $20 per score recipient.
Your official International Baccalaureate (IB) transcript is required in order to award credit. You can request an official copy of your scores online at https://www.ibo.org/.
Only HL (Higher Level) subject exams with a score of 4 or higher is accepted for transfer credit.
SUNY Niagara recognizes the IB higher level examinations (not standard level) when awarding credit, course exemptions, and placement. For students completing individual certificates in the Diploma Programme, credit may be awarded based on the grades in the individual subject examinations.
If you would like more information regarding credit eligibility for an IB examination in a specific subject area not listed please contact the Records Office at (716) 614-6250 or transfer@niagaracc.suny.edu.
Below is the list of currently offered IB HL Exams. Note that not all exams listed below have an equivalent at SUNY Niagara.
For detailed IB course descriptions
Current SUNY Niagara students who are interested in taking a course at another college or university must complete the Request to take a course at a different College or University form to gain approval that the course will transfer back to SUNY Niagara once completed. This is not considered Cross Registration. If you are participating in a CROSS REGISTRATION agreement, please follow the process outlined on the Cross Registration page.
When completing the form, please ensure that all course information entered is accurate. Requests may be denied for inaccurate information.
If your request is approved, you can proceed with registering for the course at the other college or university based on their registration policies. Students are responsible for sending an OFFICIAL transcript back to SUNY Niagara Admissions Office upon completion of the course. Students must achieve a grade of C or higher for the course to transfer back to SUNY Niagara.
If your request is denied and you decide to take the course at the other college or university, the course will not transfer back to SUNY Niagara.
The usual processing time for credit evaluation is approximately one week. However, the process may take longer during peak times (beginning and ending of semesters). Early submission of transcripts allows for earlier advisement and registration planning.
If college courses were taken in high school, you must request an official transcript from the College through which those courses were taken in order for the credit to be evaluated.
Credits earned through military service as recommended by the American Council on Education Registry are acceptable, as are other military credits, when applicable to the major. Appropriate military documents (DD214, military transcript) must be submitted to receive credit.
Students who do not agree with the college’s decision on granting or placement of credit earned at a prior SUNY institution have the right to submit an appeal to the college’s Transfer Credit Evaluator.
Students requesting an appeal should be prepared to provide reasonable material to support their case, such as the course description or syllabus in question. Contact the Records Office (transfer@niagaracc.suny.edu) to begin the appeals process.
If you do not agree with the SUNY Niagara decision, you may appeal to SUNY System Administration at https://transfer.suny.edu/students/appeals/.
Phone: 716-614-6250Email: transfer@niagaracc.suny.edu