TESU Associate Degrees Transfer Credit Rules

[Ares]

TESU Associate Degrees Transfer Credit Rules as of 2025:

• Minimum of 15 credits from regionally accredited (RA) colleges or universities.
  
• Maximum of 45 credits from NCCRS and ACE (e.g. Sophia) approved courses.
  
• Maximum of 15 credits from graduate courses.
  
• Maximum of 54-57 total transfer credits;
  • The 3 credit course, "SOS-1100 Fact, Fiction, or Fake? Information Literacy Today" must be taken at TESU for all associate degrees.
    
  • The 3 credit course, "APS-2950 Associate Capstone" must be taken at TESU if included in the degree program. (Some TESU associate degrees do not have a capstone)
    
• Minimum C grade for English composition courses and all area of study (AOS) courses.
  
• Minimum D grade on all other transferred courses. Courses marked D-, F, U, W or I are not accepted. (Only grades earned at TESU will count towards your GPA)
  
• Duplicate transfer credits will only be applied to degree requirements once.
  
• TESU reserves the right to determine the appropriate equivalency and application to a degree program for any course.
  

[bjcheung77]

And that means, if you get an ENEB evaluation from one of the FCE's and it comes in as RA equivalent credit (bachelors or graduate credit), it will work towards your Associates or Bachelors. As per the link above:

Credit recommendations from a required course-by-course international credit evaluation completed by one of the following agencies: Academic Credentials Evaluation Institute, Inc. (ACEI); Center for Applied Research, Evaluations & Education, Inc.; Educational Credential Evaluators, Inc. (ECE); World Educational Services, Inc. (WES); SDR Educational Consultants; TEC The Evaluation Company; and Transcript Research.