Transfer Credit
This page applies only to the first-year undergraduate members of the class of 2013. For information on transfer credit for study after freshman year, see the Registrar's website.
General Information
MIT departments may grant some credit for study at other colleges and universities, both before and after you begin study here. The Office of Undergraduate Advising and Academic Programming (UAAP) coordinates the transfer credit process for freshmen.
In general, credit and/or appropriate placement may be offered if the subjects are substantially equivalent to those in the MIT curriculum, and if the grade earned meets MIT standards. However, each department sets its own policies about awarding transfer credit and delegates this decision to its Transfer Credit Examiner, who reviews each request individually.
To be eligible for MIT credit, courses must be documented by an official college/university transcript sent directly to MIT (address below). No credit can be granted for courses listed only on a high school transcript, even if they were taken in a college or university, or courses documented with a letter from an instructor or principal in lieu of an official college/university transcript.
How to Seek MIT Transfer Credit
Since the summer Mathematics Transfer Credit Review deadline has past , you must follow these procedures to obtain Math credit.
- Ask the college or university where you studied to send an official transcript to MIT (address below). If your transcript was included in your MIT application, the Admissions Office automatically forwarded it to UAAP in early June.
- Download and fill in a Request for Additional Credit Form, available on the Registrar's website. Use a separate form for each MIT department in which you are seeking credit. Fill in all blanks except the last three in each row.
- Assemble a course description and syllabus for each subject for which you are seeking credit. For Math subjects, include a photocopy of the table of contents for each textbook used.
- Pick up a photocopy of your transcript from Transfer Credit Staff in UAAP, Room 7-104.
- Contact the appropriate Transfer Credit Examiner to review your materials. Some will do so in a face-to-face meeting; others will ask you to leave the materials and pick them up later.
- Return all Request for Additional Credit forms to Transfer Credit Staff in Room 7-104. They will record your pending credit and relay it to the Registrar's Office.
Transfer credit appears in WebSIS in your Grade Report with a grade of S (satisfactory). If you were granted credit for a specific MIT subject, that number appears on your transcript. General elective credit appears as GEN.TRCR. If you receive credit for a specific MIT subject and subsequently register for the same subject, the credit originally awarded is void.
Early Sophomore Standing and Transfer Credit
If you have a sufficient amount of MIT credit units, Dean Julie Norman of UAAP may offer you early sophomore status at the end of your first semester. In order to be eligible for this offer, all transfer credit must be fully processed and listed on your academic record by the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Credit transferred after that date will not count toward eligibility for sophomore standing.
A Note on Physics Transfer Credit
To receive credit for a physics course taken at another college or university you must pass an 8.01 or 8.02 Validation Exam given by the MIT Physics Department, as well as submit materials for review. These exams (the same as the Advanced Standing Exams) are administered during Orientation Week prior to the Fall Term and in the last week of Independent Activities Period prior to the Spring Term.
Mailing Address
Transfer Credit Staff,
Office of Undergraduate Advising and Academic Programming
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 7-104
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA
For More Information
Address questions to ap@mit.edu or telephone 617-253-6771.
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