When students take courses at other institutions and transfer them to UCF, the courses are not always automatically accepted. In many cases, courses from other institutions are recognized and assigned credit. Sometimes however this does not occur. The best place to check and see how transfer courses are being applied to your degree is your SASS degree audit. This can be accessed through your account on MyUCF under the "Academic Record" section.

In some cases, a student’s transfer work may not be on the SASS audit. This will occur if UCF has not received transcripts from a previously attended institution or if these transcripts have not been entered into the UCF computer system. Many times, in the case of students in their first semester at UCF, transfer courses will not appear on the SASS audit. This may be due to the fact that UCF does not have final transcripts. The information will be entered sometime during the first semester of enrollment after the official transcripts have arrived.

Look over your SASS audit and see if all transfer work is falling into the correct sections. If courses are not appearing where you expect them to, look at the very bottom of the degree audit. This section will indicate if a course has been transferred as a different course at UCF, or if the course is not currently being used toward your degree. If a course is being listed “transferred as” and then another course is listed, that means the UCF’s computer system has automatically assessed the course to be equivalent to the listed course here at UCF. The other thing to look for is courses in the “Other Courses” section of the audit. This section identifies courses that are not being applied to a student’s degree. If you feel that you should be receiving credit for a course in this section then you will most likely need to petition that course.

Undergraduate: Petitioning Transfer Credits

1. Get copies of course descriptions for the transfer courses that you would like to petition for credit. These descriptions must be photo copied from the transfer institutions catalog or printed from that institutions online catalog (must have the website listed on the printout). These descriptions will be used to compare the content of the transfer coursework to that of the courses at UCF.
2. Once you have these, contact the following offices for the courses you wish to petition.
• General Education courses: Student Development and Enrollment Services Office in Millican Hall room 210.
• Engineering, computer science, and prerequisite courses (calculus, physics, chemistry, and other technical courses included in major requirements): consult your department office.
3. Fill out the petition form. This form will indicate each transfer course and the equivalent UCF course that you are seeking credit for. This form along with the course descriptions will be used to assess your transfer work.
4. After the petition form is approved by your home department it will be sent to the CECS Academic Affairs Office for final approval.
5. Once the petition has been approved or denied at this level a copy of the form is sent back to the student’s department to be kept in the student's file.
6. Upon completion of the process, appropriate changes will be made to the student's SASS audit to grant credit for courses that have been approved.

If students have questions regarding the petitioning process, they should contact their department or the Academic Affairs Office in ENGR 107.