Graduate Studies in ECE at OSU

Transfer Credit

If you have taken courses at the graduate level at another university, some credit may be transferrable to your MS or PhD program here. Graduate School rules allow us to consider transfer of graduate credit only if your transcript explicitly shows the graduate level courses you wish to transfer as having been taken after the date you received the BS degree. They will not allow transfer of graduate level courses which were intermingled with undergraduate courses and taken before receiving the BS degree, even though these course credits are in excess of those required for your BS degree.

• Up to 9 quarter hours may be transferred into either the MS thesis option or the MS non-thesis option.
• Up to 39 coursework credits and up to 51 dissertation credits (for a maximum total of 90 credits) can be transferred into the direct Ph.D. program.
• Up to 15 coursework credits and up to 30 dissertation credits (for a maximum total of 45 credits) can be transferred past the M.S. for those entering a Ph.D. program after the MS.

In transferring from a Semester-based system to the quarter system, one can usually multiply the semester hours by 1.5 to obtain the equivalent hours under the quarter system. The graduate studies committee will evaluate all transfer requests, and they will use the syllabus and course description provided by the student to determine if the transfer credit is approved. A major consideration for approval is to determine if there is an equivalent course offered by our department that matches the course for which the transfer is requested.

The one exception to the above rule is for those students who are studying for their BSECE degree at Ohio State and sometimes take more than the total credit hours required. Up to 6 quarter hours of excess credit may be applied for graduate credit under the following conditions:

1. The course is numbered 600 or above if it is in ECE, or 500 or above if it is outside of ECE
2. A grade of B or higher is achieved
3. Senior Petition, obtainable from the Undergraduate Student Counselor, was filed with the Graduate School before the course was taken.

Assuming all these conditions are satisfied, the student may request that the courses in question be transferred to his or her graduate program by means of a letter to the Chair of Graduate Studies naming the courses and grades achieved.