Stipulations for transfer of graduate credit for use in Master of Science degrees may be found at this link: https://bulletins.iu.edu/iub/phb/2022-2023/policies/masters-degree/transfer-credit.shtml

Stipulations for transfer of graduate credit for use in Doctoral (PhD) degrees may be found at this link: https://bulletins.iu.edu/iub/phb/2022-2023/policies/doctoral/transfer-of-credit.shtml

Transfer Policy for Master of Public Health (MPH)

 With the approval of a student's academic advisor and the assistant dean for graduate education, a maximum of 12 graduate-level academic credits may be transferred for use in an SPH-B Master of Public Health degree. An official transcript from the registrar's office of the academic institution where the coursework 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.  

 Stipulations for transfer credit: 

• Transfer courses cannot be used as substitutes for required core or concentration courses.
• Courses cannot be transferred for credit if they were applied toward a completed degree. 
• A minimum grade of B is required in each course to be transferred.
• Courses with grades of Pass (P) or Satisfactory (S) cannot be accepted unless there is official documentation from the transferring program to verify that these grades are equivalent to at least a B on a graduate grading scale. 
• No credit can be transferred for a course that cannot be officially documented as carrying graduate credit. 
• For all School of Public Health-Bloomington Master of Public Health degrees, coursework completed more than five years before the starting date of student’s program-entry semester may not be used to satisfy the program’s course requirements unless the student has remained current in the course subject matter.
• The student’s graduate advisor may recommend to the assistant dean for graduate education that coursework taken before the five-year time limit be revalidated if the student can demonstrate that the knowledge contained in the course(s) remains current.

 Currency of knowledge may be demonstrated by such accomplishments as:

1. passing an examination specifically on the material covered by the course
2. passing a more advanced course in the same subject area
3. passing a comprehensive examination in which the student demonstrates substantial knowledge of the content of the course
4. teaching a comparable course
5. publishing scholarly research demonstrating fundamental principles of the course
6. demonstrating currency of course subject matter through work experience within five years of matriculation.

• Each course for which consideration for revalidation is being requested should be justified separately in a document presented to the assistant dean for graduate education for approval. 
• The cumulative grade point average (GPA) for students in the School of Public Health-Bloomington is calculated using only Indiana University graded coursework. Credits and grades in work transferred from other institutions are not used in the calculation of a student’s Indiana University GPA.