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Taking Courses Elsewhere

Transfer Credit for Non-WFU Courses Taken Within the U.S.

Please read the following guidelines carefully when considering taking courses elsewhere:

  • To be eligible to take courses at another institution, the student must have a cumulative GPA of no less than 2.0, must not be on probation or suspension from WFU, and must obtain approval of the Office of the University Registrar and the respective academic department in advance.
  • All transfer work taken after enrollment at WFU must be taken at an approved four-year institution.
  • For transfer hours to be accepted, the grade in any course must be C or better.  Courses completed at other institutions with the grade of C- or lower are not awarded transfer credit at WFU.
  • Courses eligible to receive basic, divisional, major, minor, quantitative reasoning, or cultural diversity credit must be taken for a grade, not pass/fail.
  • Any courses taken elsewhere pass/fail must receive prior approval to be eligible for transfer credit.
  • Of the 120 hours required to graduate, at least 60 hours must be institutional credit (credit earned at WFU). Once enrolled at WFU, a student may subsequently count, at most, 30 hours of non-Wake Forest credit.
  • Courses taken outside of WFU that are not based on semester hour credits will not receive a higher conversion value than the value of the WFU course.
  • Grades received for non-institutional credit will not be factored into a student’s WFU GPA. Courses may not be repeated elsewhere to replace grades earned at WFU.
  • All requests for transfer credit from online and distance learning courses are evaluated on an individual basis.
  • No more than 15 credit hours earned through fully online courses may be applied toward graduation; of these, no more than 8 credit hours may be transferred from another institution.