{"id":3391,"date":"2026-02-10T11:58:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/policy\/?post_type=library&#038;p=3391"},"modified":"2026-03-11T16:06:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:06:34","slug":"internal-credits-transfer","status":"publish","type":"library","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/policy\/library\/internal-credits-transfer\/","title":{"rendered":"Internal Credits Transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"uwm-l-row uwm-l-row--4\">\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col uwm-l-col--3\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-rationale\">Rationale<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col\">\n<p>Effective in the 2018-19 academic year, UW-Milwaukee offers four distinct curricular tracks that lead to degrees \u2013 undergraduate associate, undergraduate bachelor, undergraduate flex, and graduate.\u00a0 The term \u201ccurricular track\u201d means the catalog of courses available to students within their particular degree program and, in the case of flex, mode of instruction.\u00a0 For credits earned in one curricular track to be applied toward degree requirements in another curricular track, the credit needs to be internally transferred.\u00a0 Campus practice is to not count externally transferred credit toward the official cumulative grade point average (GPA).\u00a0 Internally transferred credit is distinct from externally transferred credit in that it was earned in UW-Milwaukee coursework.\u00a0 Therefore, this policy stipulates that internally transferred credit will carry grade point value.\u00a0 For example, if a student transfers credit earned in an undergraduate associate curricular track to an undergraduate bachelor curricular track, that credit will count toward the official cumulative grade point average in the undergraduate bachelor curricular track.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-l-row uwm-l-row--4\">\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col uwm-l-col--3\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-policy\">Policy<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col\">\n<p>Credits transferred internally between curricular tracks within the University of Wisconsin &#8211; Milwaukee will carry grade point value and count as 51ÁÔÆæ credit for repeat purposes.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This policy goes into effect in the 2019-20 academic year for credits earned in the undergraduate associate curricular track.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1287,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"categories":[17,50],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-3391","library","type-library","status-publish","hentry","category-faculty","category-faculty-general","topic-academics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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