Transfer Students

Applicants who want to transfer to Frostburg State University from a two-year or four-year institution will have their academic records audited by our Transfer Coordinator in the Admissions Office. The Coordinator will follow the guidelines listed below. If you have questions about the evaluation of transferable credits or the appeals process for this audit, please contact the Transfer Coordinator.

Admission Requirements

• Students with 24 or more earned transferable semester hours of credit must have a 2.0 cumulative average on a 4.0 scale.
  
  
• If an applicant has attended more than one institution, the cumulative GPA will be computed on grades received in courses from all institutions attended.
  
  
• Students with fewer than 24 transferable credits must have a 2.5 minimum cumulative average and provide an official high school transcript and SAT scores to the Admissions Office prior to admission.
  
  
• If you would have been admitted to the University as a high school senior and have achieved a 2.0 cumulative grade point average at a Maryland Community College, you are eligible for transfer regardless of the number of credits you have earned.
  
  
• If you are admitted to degree candidacy while still enrolled at another institution, you must maintain the required cumulative grade point average and remain in good academic standing during your most recent semester at that institution. Failure to meet this requirement will result in cancellation of the University’s original offer of admission.

Transfer Credits

• You may not transfer more than 70 credits from a community or junior college. These credits are normally limited to the first two years at the undergraduate level and half the baccalaureate degree program requirements.
  
  
• You are limited to a maximum of 90 credits when transferring from other four-year colleges and universities.
  
  
• Transfer students are required to complete at least half their academic major requirements at Frostburg State. Additional requirements to complete a degree are listed in the undergraduate catalog. http://www.frostburg.edu/ungrad/catalog.htm
  
  
• When a student transfers, grades are not recorded on the FSU transcript for credits earned at other institutions and those credits are not computed into the student’s FSU grade point average.
  
  
• Students transferring from Maryland community colleges are encouraged to utilize the ARTSYS website to determine the transferability of any Maryland Community College course to FSU. http://artweb.usmd.edu/
  
  
• You will be given the option of satisfying the graduation requirements which were in effect at Frostburg State during the time you were enrolled as a first-year student at the sending institution. If you had more than two sequential years of non-enrollment since enrolling in an institution of higher education, you must meet the graduation requirements of the Frostburg State University catalog in effect at the time you first enroll at Frostburg State University.