The student should ask the departmental Graduate Advisor to evaluate your previous coursework as an acceptable substitute for courses required by the department. Departments are normally more interested in recognizing the competencies attained in previous coursework rather than in unit credit. If the Graduate Advisor agrees with your request, ask the Advisor to write a memo granting your request, with a copy to you and a copy for your file in the department. If the student attended an institution other than one of the other eight UC campus, the student may transfer up to eight quarter-units. Up to twelve quarter-units may be transferred from another UC campus.
Students get strictly unit credit.
A statement will be added to the student's transcript that will include the number of units and where they were completed and in what time period. No transfer credit is allowed for any course taken as an undergraduate. In addition, no courses taken during UCSB Summer Session will apply toward a graduate degree or teaching credential unless admission to graduate standing at UCSB was effective in the Summer or in a previous quarter. Students who had formally applied to a UCSB graduate degree program at the time they complete coursework through UC Extension's Concurrent Enrollment may transfer up to 12 units of credit to their graduate program if admitted. Students must petition their academic department and Graduate Division for approval.