Transcripts and Transfer Courses
Welcome to the College of Liberal Arts
"As Transfer Equivalency Manager for the College of Liberal Arts, I coordinate the determination of transfer course equivalencies for all courses that fall under the departments in the College. I work with our students, departments, and other academic offices around campus to help make the determination process move as quickly and smoothly as possible. I am here to help so if you have questions or concerns about transfer work, please let me know.”
Wayne B Shaw
Ellucian Insights/Reporting Developer
FAQs for the Transfer Process
You must have the other college or university submit an official copy of your transcript to the Office of Admissions at the following address. This applies to newly admitted students, currently enrolled students, and returning or readmitted students.
University of Mississippi
Office of Admissions
145 Martindale-Cole
University, MS 38677
For questions about that process, contact Admissions at (662) 915-7226 or admissions@olemiss.edu
No more than 9* of the last 21 hours can be transfer work.
For B.A. degrees, 12 hours of major courses must be in residence and 6 hours of minor coursework must be in residence. For B.S. degrees, 18 of major coursework must be in residence and 6 hours of related subjects coursework must be in residence.
Your Transfer Equivalency Report shows a detailed listing of all your transfer courses taken at institutions in the United States and how they equate to credit at the University of Mississippi.
Admitted students who have registered for new student orientation can generate their Transfer Equivalency Report at any time through the myOleMiss portal. Simply log in with your webID and search for Transfer Equivalency Report.
As stated above, this report is generated for new students once their register for orientation. Until then, all work will appear as pending. Make sure that all transcripts have been requested to be sent to UM! It is a university rule for admission that all college work is sent to UM.
Students who are admitted to the regional campuses (DeSoto, Tupelo, Grenada, Booneville, Rankin) do not attend orientation sessions in Oxford. A staff member at the regional campuses will contact the Registrar to have regional campus students’ Transfer Equivalency Reports generated.
- Direct Transfer. If a transfer course matches a UM course in content and number of credits, the course will transfer directly to a UM course. For example, MAT 1313 from the Mississippi Community Colleges equates directly to our Math 121.
- Department Generic Credit. If a UM department does not have a directly matching course, then students will receive generic department credit with an indication of the level of the course – lower division courses at the 100 and 200 level while the upper division courses are at the 300 and 400 levels. For example, a student receiving generic political science credit at the 100 level will show POL 1XX.
- Combination Agreements. Sometimes a combination of courses is required to receive credit for a UM course. This might happen if UM offers a combined science lecture/lab course, but the transfer institution offers separate lecture and lab courses. For example, our Bisc 206 course is a 4-hour integrated lecture/lab course. To receive credit for Bisc 206 as transfer work from another institution, you might have to take a 3-hour lecture course and a separate 1-hour lab course. Not taking the lab would get 3 hours of BISC 2XX.
- UM Generic Credit. Academic courses that do not match a discipline offered by a department at UM may be given elective UM credit at the appropriate level of the course. For example, a student’s architecture or interior design courses might receive lower division credit such as UM 1XX or UM 2XX or upper-division credit such as UM 3XX or UM 4XX.
- No UM Credit. Students do not receive transfer credit for courses designated for technical or vocational career programs. Questions about this issue may be directed to the Office of the Registrar. Developmental courses which cannot count to graduation hours also as no UM credit.
If you took dual enrollment courses in high school, you must have an official transcript from the college through which the course was taught sent directly to the University of Mississippi at the address listed above.
Having a course listed on your high school transcript as dual enrollment is not sufficient. Make sure that transcript is sent well ahead of your orientation session.
You must have the appropriate organization submit scores directly to the University of Mississippi. Thus, contact College Board for AP and CLEP scores, International Baccalaureate, Cambridge International, etc. to have the scores sent to UM.
If you are a transfer student and had your scores previously submitted to another institution, you must still have your scores sent directly from the testing organization to the University of Mississippi.
The UM catalog page for Credit by Examination has the necessary scores to receive course credit at our university. Direct any questions about credit-by-exam to the UM Office of the Registrar: registrar@olemiss.edu or (662) 915-7792.
University of Mississippi students may take courses at other institutions. In order to guarantee that the credit will transfer and apply to the student’s degree program, the student must obtain written approval from his or her academic dean before enrolling in the course at another institution.
Students whose majors are in the College of Liberal Arts should download the Liberal Arts Permission to Transfer Credit Form and email it to libartsadvising@olemiss.edu.
Prior approval protects students by determining if and how credits earned elsewhere may satisfy degree requirements. Students who do not receive prior approval risk not being awarded transfer credit if the courses do not equate to UM courses, do not satisfy degree requirements, are not accredited with regional and/or professional accrediting bodies, or other UM rules.
Students in the other schools can find links to their forms on the CSSFYE website.
The Registrar’s Office website provides a tool to access transfer determinations for US institutions in its Transfer Equivalency Database. Using this tool, you can see which courses have already been equated.
Transfer courses are entered into the database as we encounter them. If a transfer course does not appear in the database, it does not necessarily mean that the courses does not receive credit. It means that we have never had a student transfer that particular course before.
If you want to see courses at other institutions, the CollegeCourse Online College Catalog Database is a free tool for students to look up catalogs from other institutions.
The University Catalog contains information about resident credits, transfer credits, and credit by examination in its Credits and Grades section.
The University’s policy directory also contains information about transferring credit, including "Acceptance of Transfer Credit” and “Transfer Credit.”
The Office of the Registrar has the responsibility for recording of class grades on official university records and for maintaining and supplying transcripts of students’ academic work. Official transcripts are issued through Parchment.
Unofficial transcripts are also issued through Parchment. However, if you are a currently or recently enrolled student with an active WebID, you can access your unofficial transcript through your myOleMiss account. Complete the form found in MyOleMiss. Any questions regarding your official UM transcript should be directed to the Office of the Registrar.