Transfer Students

If you are a student who’s been attending another school and now sense God’s calling to attend Midwestern, we celebrate your decision! It will be important for you to understand our policies, and to know which courses will and will not transfer.

For Seminary Students:

Midwestern Seminary transfers a limited number of credit hours for graduate work taken at other accredited institutions. The following Association of Theological Schools regulations apply:

1. Up to one-half of the credits required for the student’s degree program at Midwestern may be granted on the basis of transfer credits.
2. No more than one-half of the credits required for the degree program at the transfer school may be transferred.
3. Courses transferred must be equivalent in content and requirements to courses in the Midwestern catalog.
4. Only courses used to meet Midwestern degree requirements will be transferred and recorded on the student’s permanent record/transcript.
5. Only courses in which the student has received a grade of C- or higher will be accepted for transfer.

Students transferring from unaccredited institutions may validate that coursework with EXCEL exams. Transfer credit will be awarded if the student received a grade of C- or higher in the transfer course and earns a satisfactory score on the EXCEL exam.

For College Students:

The following are guidelines for college transfer credit to be followed by students transferring into Midwestern Baptist College, SBC:

Midwestern transfers a limited number of credit hours for courses taken at other accredited institutions. To be eligible for transfer, courses must:

1. be equivalent in content and requirements to courses in the Midwestern catalog;
2. meet a Midwestern degree requirements (i.e., only courses meeting a Midwestern degree requirement will be transferred and recorded on the student’s permanent record/transcript), and
3. have a recorded grade of C- or higher.

The transfer of undergraduate coursework from an institution of higher education that is not accredited by a regional or institutional accrediting agency recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) and/or the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) is subject to:

1. the student being accepted to Midwestern as a degree-seeking student;
2. the academic calendar, grading system, and the credentials of the transfer institution’s faculty being evaluated and approved by the Registrar or the Dean of the College with the review of the Academic Policies Committee;
3. the course(s) being transferred meeting all other Midwestern transfer credit requirements; and
4. the credit not being immediately transferred and posted to the students transcript but held “in escrow” until the student successfully completes 24 credit hours at Midwestern with a minimum GPA of 2.50, passes a minimum of three upper-level courses (courses numbered in the three- or four-hundreds), and passes at least one course from the Biblical/Theological Studies, General Education, and major components of the undergraduate degree program selected by the student.

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