Santa Clara follows University of California guidelines on transferable courses, with some exceptions.
SCU is on ASSIST.org, a California database that helps prospective and current students determine what completed community college courses may satisfy electives, general education and major requirements. For guidance, feel free to watch the following tutorial.
If a school is not listed on ASSIST, please refer to the General Transfer Guide to the SCU Core Curriculum.
In addition to ASSIST, there is a transfer credit course equivalency archive. It is a record of previous course evaluations and whether they were approved or denied. Some listed courses may no longer be offered. SCU Academic Departments maintain sole authority for course evaluations and are obliged to alter or eliminate course equivalencies at any time due to curricular changes within the department.
For current students, please review the Undergraduate Current Students Transfer Credit Process. If you decide to take a course outside of SCU, then please complete the Undergraduate Current Students Transfer Credit Pre-Approval Application.
To view the AP and IB test equivalency charts, please refer to the Undergraduate Bulletin, located in Chapter 8 under “Academic Credit Evaluation.”
For additional questions regarding transfer credit and/or test credit, please email TransferCredit@scu.edu.
Please note the following updates:
- Typically, one semester of Statistics is considered equivalent to OMIS 40 credit.
- Starting Fall 2024, Finance and Economics majors will continue to require two Calculus courses (Calculus 1 and 2). All other business majors only require a Calculus 1 course.
- Starting Fall 2025, the Computer Science & Engineering major will require a total of 182 units. This allows a maximum of 91 quarter units or 60.66 semester units of transfer credit.
- For current students, the Departments of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Applied Mathematics do not accept online courses for transfer credit.
- If you completed Calculus I at SCU (or another quarter-system institution), a Calculus II course taken at a semester-system institution will not be considered equivalent to SCU’s MATH 12, as the course content does not align between quarter- and semester-based curricula.
- For current students, the Psychology department does not accept outside credit to fulfill PSYC 51, 52, or 53.