Transfer Students

A transfer student is defined as an individual who, having attended another institution of higher learning, is applying for admission to Piedmont.

A TRADITIONAL Transfer student is one who has earned some credits from a previous institution and has been out of high school less than five years. A NON-TRADITIONAL Transfer student is a student that has been out of high school at least five years and has earned some credits from a previous institution.

All transfer students should submit the following items in order to be considered for admission:

1. An application for admission;
2. Official transcripts from every college, university, or technical school attended. Transfer applicants must present a satisfactory academic record from each institution attended;
3. If the transfer student has less than 30 transferable semester credit hours from previously attended institutions, an official, final high school transcript or General Equivalency Diploma (GED) assessment scores report is required. Official score report of the ACT or SAT is required for traditional transfer students with less than 30 transferrable hours. Non-traditional transfer students are exempt from submission of official SAT or ACT score reports.

Other policies applicable to transfer students include the following:

• Students may receive transfer credit for courses taken at accredited institutions and foreign institutions approved for semester(s) abroad.
• Students who attended colleges not accredited at the time of attendance may be asked to provide additional materials including course syllabi, college catalog course descriptions, and instructors' credential information before transferability of the courses may be determined.
• Only grades of “C” or higher are transferred in all courses.
• Developmental, orientation, student-assembly, and cultural-events credits are non- transferable.
• All transfer students will need to submit high school information for Financial Aid purposes: transcript, assessment scores, or copy of diploma is acceptable.

Transfer applicants who are enrolled at other institutions and plan to enroll for courses at Piedmont College prior to the completion of course work at another institution must appeal in writing to the dean of the respective school for which they are being admitted for permission to complete coursework at the previous institution.

Admission to Piedmont College does not guarantee admission to a specific school or department. Certain programs have additional admission requirements which must be met before a student can begin taking the upper division classes in their degree program. It is the student’s responsibility to contact the appropriate academic department for additional admission requirements upon acceptance to the College granted by the Office of Admissions.

Admission to Piedmont College- Athens Campus is limited to students with previous college experience. Students must have completed at least 30 hours of transferable credit to be considered; those hours may have been completed as a dual enrollment student, while enrolled full-time at another college or university and/or by receiving a ‘3’ or better on final AP tests. Please contact the Office of Undergraduate Admissions for more information.