Transfer of Credit

Credit for Graduate Work at Other Universities

Students may receive up to eight units of credit for graduate work at other universities. Specific departments may set lower limits. A student who desires credit for previous course work should submit a request for transfer credit form to his or her Departmental Coordinator. That request should be submitted during the first year in the program. Credit may be transferred toward the Ph.D. from a master’s degree or other work completed in a post-baccalaureate degree program. No work done as an undergraduate (including graduate level courses), whether at this institution or at any other, will be counted toward a Ph.D., A.M., or M.S., with the following exception: graduate courses completed by undergraduates as submatriculants in a graduate group may be counted toward graduate degree requirements.

Students must complete a Request for Approval of Transfer Credit form and submit it along with a copy of the transcript from where the transfer is being requested to the PhD Coordinator. The Coordinator will decide whether to grant credit based on the standards of the previous work and its relevance to the student’s program. The Coordinator’s recommendation for transfer credit should be sent the Wharton Doctoral Programs Office for Vice Dean Approval. The decision of the Coordinator is final, but it must be filed in the student’s folder in the Doctoral Programs Office. The formal transfer of credit does not take place until the end of the first year of doctoral study.

Credit for Courses Taken in the Wharton MBA Program

Precisely the same rules as above apply to transferring credits from the Wharton MBA Program. Upon the Coordinator’s approval of MBA course work based on standards, relevancy, and departmental rules, a maximum of eight MBA course credits may be transferred. No MBA courses will be transferred with a grade below an A- (or its equivalent) as above. The request for such a transfer should be submitted during the student’s first year in the Ph.D. Program.

Transfer Credit

Credit may be transferred toward the Ph.D. from a masters degree or other work completed in a post-baccalaureate degree program, upon recommendation by the graduate chair and approval of the graduate dean, reducing full tuition registration by up to two years. No work done as an undergraduate, whether at this institution or at any other, will be counted toward a Ph.D., A.M., or M.S., with the following exception: graduate courses completed by undergraduates as submatriculants in a graduate group may be counted toward graduate degree requirements.