At least one third of the credit hours required for a graduate or post-baccalaureate professional degree are earned through instruction offered by the institution awarding the degree.
x Compliance o Non-Compliance o Partial Compliance
More than
one-third of the credit hours applied toward all graduate degrees awarded are
earned through instruction offered by UL Lafayette.
In the case of
graduate students who apply graduate-level transfer credit earned at another
institution toward a UL Lafayette graduate degree, regulations limiting the transferrable credit
applicable toward the degree are published in the University Catalog.
The University Catalog’s Graduate Rules and Regulations
section offers guidelines for course and credit regulations that address
transfer credit. These regulations specify that master’s level degree
candidates are limited to nine or 12 transfer credits, depending on the total
hours required in the degree program:
A maximum of 12 semester hours of transfer graduate credit may be
applied toward fulfillment of requirements for the master's degree. The number
of hours transferred may not, however, exceed one-third of the semester hours
required for the degree. The maximum number which can be transferred in a 30 or
33 hour program is 9.
With regard to doctoral
degree candidates, the same section of the University Catalog states:
An unspecified number of semester hours of transfer graduate
credit may be applied toward fulfillment of requirements toward the doctoral
degree, but the majority of credits toward a graduate degree must be earned at
UL Lafayette.
The limitations
on transfer credit hours from other institutions hold true for the University’s
three graduate degrees offered through consortia or partnerships. Transfer
credit limits for these individual degree programs are specified in their
student handbooks and/or the University Catalog.
In the MS in
Nursing degree program, UL Lafayette students may take up to 12 credit hours
from the consortial partner institutions (McNeese State University, Nicholls State
University, Southeastern Louisiana University), depending on the degree track;
degree tracks require between 38 and 51 credit hours total. The Intercollegiate
Consortium for a Master of Science in Nursing Student Handbook states:
Credits from other universities may be transferred under certain
circumstances. Students must seek approval to transfer credit toward the
Masters of Science in Nursing (MSN). Please refer to the home university
catalog for the graduate school policy for transfer credit prior to beginning
course work toward the MSN. Students wishing to take courses toward the MSN
from a non-consortium university once admitted to the graduate school must be
granted permission to do so from the Nursing Graduate Coordinator PRIOR to
enrolling in the course(s).
In the EdD in
Educational Leadership degree program, provided through a consortium with
Southeastern Louisiana University, students take 18 hours of core course
requirements at their home institutions, and at least half of the remaining
courses at their home institution. The EdD degree requirements included in the 2018-2019 University Catalog state:
A maximum of 12 semester hours of appropriate graduate coursework
(six from the master's degree and six from post-master's course work), subject
to approval by the Consortium, with prior approval by the candidate's advisor,
the program coordinator and the Graduate School Dean, may be transferred from
other accredited institutions or from within a consortium institution.
The DNP degree
program, which is also offered in partnership with Southeastern Louisiana University, stipulates in its Doctor of Nursing Practice Student
Handbook the following:
A maximum of nine credit hours (NURS
800, 805, 808) may be earned in the DNP programs at Louisiana State University
Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC) in New Orleans or at Southern University-Baton
Rouge and transferred to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette DNP
program.
A maximum of 26 credit hours (NURS
800, 801, 802, 804, 805, 806, 807, 808) may be earned in the DNP program at
Southeastern Louisiana University and transferred to the University of
Louisiana at Lafayette DNP program.
For students who wish to transfer credit hours from universities
other than those listed above, 51% of the credit hours earned toward a doctoral
degree must be completed at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Further, the DNP degree requirements included in the 2018-2019 University Catalog specify:
A maximum of 19 semester hours of
appropriate graduate coursework, subject to approval by the program coordinator
and the Graduate School Dean, may be transferred from other accredited
institutions. It is the student's responsibility to contact the program
coordinator to determine the acceptability of previous coursework and to apply
to transfer that coursework.
Transfer credits for Nursing 803, 809, 810, 811, 812, 821, 822,
and 823 will not be considered.
The process of
verifying that the student has or will have met all degree requirements begins
when a student submits an application for graduation. At that time, the
Graduate School generates the “Graduate Graduation Checkout Sheet. A staff member in the Graduate
School Office carefully reviews each graduation checklist to verify that the
total credit hours, grade, and GPA requirements have been or will be satisfied
by the end of the semester. Upon completion of this review, a copy of this graduation checklist is then forwarded to the graduate
coordinator of the program in question for his or her review and verification
that all individual course and degree requirements have been met. Beginning in
Spring 2019, Degree Works is in use for graduate students admitted and enrolled
in programs outlined in the University Catalog
from 2017-2018 forward. This software supplements, and is intended to
eventually replace, the manual graduation checklist process currently in use.
For students in catalogs prior to 2017-2018, however, the previous manual
process of verifying degree requirements continues.
Supporting Documents
DNP Prospectus Describing Partnership with Southeastern Louisiana University
EDU Grade Credit Time Requirements
Grad Course and Credit Regulations