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 30 credits of transferred graduate-level coursework obtained either at a previously attended institution (or obtained via a completed Master’s degree obtained at an Indiana University campus), may be counted towards the PhD Degree.
• Allowance of transfer credits used towards the PhD degree are subject to approval from the doctoral advisory committee and the assistant dean of graduate studies.
• Courses which counted towards the requirements of any type of doctoral or terminal degree (for example a DVM, MD, JD, PhD, D.Phil, Ed.D, or any other type doctoral degree) are completely ineligible for transfer, and are not allowable for use towards the PhD degree.  This is a University Graduate School policy and there are no exceptions for this stipulation.
  • A student could theoretically transfer coursework from another institution which was taken under a doctoral degree program, but only if that doctoral degree was never completed or certified, and never will be.
• For Ph.D. degrees, coursework completed more than seven (7) years before successful completion of the qualifying examination 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, and the University Graduate School.  Please see the SPH-B Academic Bulletin section on Course Revalidation methods and procedures for specific details.
• 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 any 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 come directly from a university official.
• 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.