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Transfer Credit

A transfer student is a student pursuing a degree at Halifax Community College who has earned credits at another institution and wishes to apply these credits toward a Halifax Community College certificate, diploma, or degree. In addition to submitting all other application materials, a student desiring to receive transfer credit must have an official transcript sent to Halifax Community College by each institution that originally granted the credits. For degree completion, at least 25 percent of semester credit hours of curriculum course requirements must be completed at Halifax Community College. Exceptions are allowable and may include the following:

1. Transfer credit from foreign institutions not accredited by a regional postsecondary accrediting commission. The student must provide a certified English interpretation.
2. Transfer of course work completed at a degree-granting institution accredited by a professional accrediting body responsible for free-standing institutions within a specialty and approved by appropriate HCC faculty.
3. Halifax Community College may also grant credit where applicable for military service schools in accordance with the recommendations of the American Council of Education’s “Guide to the Evaluation of Educational Experiences

   in the Armed Services” when consistent with the student’s program requirements. Halifax Community College does not allow credit for experiential learning. All courses in the North Carolina Community College System Combined Course Library (CCL) are transferable from other colleges.

4. Halifax Community College will grant credit for work done at all regionally accredited institutions of higher education for courses which a student has earned a grade of “C” or higher.

 

All transfer credit awarded must be adequately justified and must include documentation that the credit awarded represents collegiate course work relevant to the degree. Course content and level of instruction must result in student competencies at least equivalent to those of students enrolled in the institution’s own educational programs and course work must be taught by faculty qualified to teach at the appropriate degree level. Credits will transfer to HCC with a “CT” grade and will not be included in the student’s overall grade point average. Transfer credit is not awarded for continuing education courses nor life experience (See exception below.) Students wishing curriculum credit for these types of courses/experiences may inquire as to eligibility to register, pay for, and take an appropriate class as credit by exam. Courses successfully challenged will count toward the student’s major (if applicable) for graduation purposes but will not be awarded any quality points toward the cumulative quality point average and will not transfer to another college.