How old can credits transfer to bih 3

[heidi08]

New here and first post. I am an international student and I have applied to TESC and COSC. Of my 97 credits, only 48 transferred to TESC with a note stating over 10 years reason why other credits were not accepted for their BSBA - General Management. The credits not transferred are from the social sciences and not information technology courses. Have anyone applied to TESC and had older credits transferred? If yes, how did you handle this for credits to be awarded.

Great forum and would appreciate any feedback!

[Yanji]

The 10 year credit rule only applies to the BSBA and BSAST programs and there is actually a 5 year rule for Strategic Management. You can get around this with a Demonstration of Currency petition, which pretty much requires you to prove that you have refreshed yourself on the subject through employment, advanced courses, certification or professional seminars. Liberal Arts programs should allow all non-duplicative credit to be applied.

[ajs1976]

COSC took my classes from as far back as Fall 1995 which was my freshmen year.

The 10 year credit rule only applies to the BSBA and BSAST programs

Is this for the entire degree or just the classes for the BSBA or BSAST majors?

[Yanji]

Is this for the entire degree or just the classes for the BSBA or BSAST majors?

It is for all business or technology courses for the BSBA and BSAST programs, respectively. (9 10+ year old credits are allowed) I'm not sure how broad their definition of "business" is though. (e.g. communications, economics or psychology courses which could straddle the boundary between social science and business)

[ajs1976]

Thanks, I'll have to keep that in mind. I'm considering working on the BSBA at some point after I finish at COSC. I wouldn't minding taking the TECEP for Micro since it would help the residency requirement, but if I had to take Eng Comp I, Eng Comp II, Speech and another Science that may be a bit much. I guess when I decide to start, I will get the evaluation completed sooner then I planned. I understand why they expire some courses, but I think it is a little bit of a scam that courses expire, but degrees do not.

[dfrecore]

I have credits back from 1988-2000 that TESC accepted into the BSBA. Almost everything from general ed, many business core, all of the business electives, and all free electives were 20+ years old. Even my computer courses are way more than 10 years old, and were accepted.

I would have them go back and take a look, because only courses from the Specialization area have that less-than-10-year requirement. They only accepted 3 courses that were more than 10 years old in that area for me, which is what I was expecting.