Transfer of Credit

With the approval of a doctoral student's advisory committee chair and the assistant dean of graduate studies, graduate-level academic credit from another institution may be transferred for use in a School of Public Health-Bloomington doctoral degree.

An official transcript from the registrar's office of the academic institution where the course work was completed must be on file in the School of Public Health-Bloomington records office. A copy of this transcript should accompany the request through its approval stages.  It must be an official transcript, meaning it’s sent directly from the issuing institution to the School of Public Health admissions team or graduate records administrator.

The form to begin this process is located at https://one.iu.edu/task/iub/current-sph-students: press “start,” and select the “Forms” link.

Stipulations for transferability are as follows:

• A maximum of one-third of the required credit hours of an SPH Master of Science (MS) degree may be made up of transferred graduate-level coursework obtained at a previously attended institution.
• Allowance of transfer credits used towards a Master of Science (MS) degree are subject to approval from the doctoral advisory committee and the assistant dean of graduate studies.
• Transfer credits may not be used towards any of the Master of Public Health (MPH) degree programs, and there are no exceptions to this policy.
• Transfer credits from any kind of doctoral degree may not be used towards any IU Master’s degree, and there are no exceptions to this policy.
• For MS degrees, coursework completed more than seven (7) years before graduation from the program must be revalidated via the Course Revalidation procedure in order to be approved and transferred.  Authorization of revalidation methods are subject to approval by the SPH-B assistant dean of graduate studies.  Please see this link for Course Revalidation methods and procedures:
• A minimum grade of B is required in each course to be transferred.  A course with a grade of B-minus may not be transferred for use in a graduate degree.
• Grades of Pass (P) or Satisfactory (S) cannot be accepted unless there is official documentation from the transferring institution to verify that these grades are equivalent to at least a B on a graduate grading scale.  It is the student’s responsibility to obtain the required verification from an appropriate source, such as the professor of the course, the Registrar’s Office of the institution where the course was completed, or an administrator of the institution.  The verification must be on official university letterhead and issued by a university official from the issuing institution.
• No credit can be transferred for a course that cannot be officially documented as carrying graduate-level credit.
• The cumulative grade point average (GPA) for students in the School of Public Health-Bloomington is calculated using only Indiana University graded course work. Credits and grades in work transferred from other institutions are not used in the calculation of a student’s Indiana University GPA.