Participation in a transfer track will hold prospective students at the partner institution to a two-year academic map.  If your curriculum is subject to frequent changes, how will your advisors and department manage exceptions to degree completion for these students?

1. Review your student support services available to both prospective and newly enrolled transfer students.
2. Identify the number of students currently enrolled who are transfer students from proposed partner institution, their USC GPAs, total college credits attempted compared to your freshman students.  
3. Does your college provide equitable access to financial aid for new transfer students compared to freshman students?
4. Are there other types of student supports needed to assist new transfer students as they enter a new University campus culture at USC?

1. Establish a faculty and/or staff contact to initiate, manage, and approve the transfer track with partner institution.
2. Determine who within your college or department will be responsible for monitoring transfer student progress.

The program must accept approved courses taught at proposed partner institution. To the extent feasible, courses accepted for transfer credit should be equivalent to the first two years of USC curriculum for the bachelor’s degree program.

In addition, The South Carolina Technical College (SCTC) system maintains a uniform statewide catalog of approved courses for its 16 campuses across the state.   

Courses found in this uniform statewide catalog share the same course subject and numbering system and are evaluated by the University of South Carolina in a uniform manner for all SCTC campuses.  For example, ENG 101 taken at any SCTC campus equates to ENGL 101 at the University of South Carolina.

This uniform process for evaluating courses for a SCTC campus requires a higher level of coordination due to 1) the increased maintenance of transfer equivalencies and 2) the various curricular pathway Memorandums of Understanding between USC and SCTC campuses.

As a result, any changes to SCTC transfer evaluations will only take place in the months of January and February for the following academic year.   Any changes to SCTC evaluations will need to be reviewed by the Equitable Transfer Committee sponsored by the Provost’s Office.  All SCTC transfer evaluation request can be submitted to transfer@sc.edu. 

Transfer pathways identifying course equivalencies must be approved by (with signatures) the proposed partner institution Provost, USC Dean of Undergraduate Studies, and the Dean of the USC College/School and Chair of the academic unit offering the corresponding bachelor’s degree program or their designee.  Signed copies of the transfer pathways included in this agreement must be submitted to and will be maintained by the Office of Academic Programs.

All courses offered at partner institution included in the pathway must be reviewed annually.

For each program included in this agreement, the respective academic units will meet at least every two years to review the transfer pathway.  Each institution also agreed to notify the other when any changes are made to programs so that transfer pathways can be revised as needed.

USC shall assist with the advisement process by informing  partner institution of curriculum changes and providing current major maps. Each institution agrees to provide participating students with relevant, current, and sound academic advice for completing the associate’s degree at partner institution and the bachelor’s degree program at USC in a timely manner.

Midlands Technical College MOU

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