Office of Admissions

Transfer Credit Information

This site will allow you to obtain an unofficial transfer credit evaluation to assist you in your course planning for the University of Oregon. The information provided is an excellent tool to unofficially evaluate your coursework from other institutions.

 Your transfer credits are evaluated once you apply for admission and your official transcripts have arrived. You will receive a letter from the Office of Admission to acknowledge your application.  This letter includes your UO ID and PAC (Personal Access Code) numbers that you can use to login to DuckWeb.  Once your credits have been articulated, you will receive an e-mail from the Office of the Registrar to notify you to login to DuckWeb to see how your credits will transfer and how they will apply towards a degree at the UO.  For more information about the general-education requirements, check out the UO Catalog.

Associate of arts degrees

When you complete an associate of arts Oregon transfer (A.A.O.T.) degree at an Oregon community college, you will have completed your writing and group requirements before coming to the UO. This agreement does not apply to students who earned an A.A. degree outside Oregon, except for specific Washington community colleges for which the UO has articulation agreements.

Transfer credits

The UO accepts college-level academic course work from regionally accredited two- or four-year colleges and universities. Credits from colleges outside the United States are evaluated individually. To grant transfer credit, we require official transcripts.

The link below assists you in determining transfer course equivalencies for other colleges and universities and how they are used to meet degree and major requirements at the University of Oregon.

There is no maximum number of credits that can be transferred from a regionally accredited four-year college or university.

Up to 124 credits from an accredited community or junior college may be applied to a bachelor's degree. Credits earned at a community or junior college are transferred as lower-division credits and cannot be used to satisfy the UO upper-division graduation requirement. If you have more than 124 credits, we accept all of your course work, but only the 124 credits. Up to 12 credits of vocational-technical, physical education, and music performance courses, and up to 48 credits in professional courses such as veterinary medicine or nursing may be transferred.

Semester and quarter system

One semester credit is equivalent to 1.5 quarter credits. (Multiply the number of semester credits by 1.5 for the number of quarter credits.) Students transferring from a school on a semester system do not lose credits; the credits are just expressed in a different way. One semester course is generally equivalent to one quarter course. Occasionally, two semester courses taken in sequence may be equal to three courses in the quarter system.

GPA calculation and grades

To determine your GPA for admission, we include all attempted credits for which you received an A, B, C, D, or F, even in repeated courses. Incompletes and withdrawals are not considered in the transfer GPA.

We accept transferable courses with grades of D- except for courses required for transfer admission (one college-level writing course and one college-level mathematics course) and for courses that satisfy the general-education requirements in writing, mathematics, and a second language. Grades of C- or better, P, or S are required in these courses.

We accept transferable courses graded P or S. However, because the UO required graded credits (A, B, C, or D), we recommend that you take no more than 12 credits of P or S work at your transfer school. We also recommend that all courses in your intended major, as well as writing, mathematics, and second languages, be taken for letter grades. If your school offers only P/N (pass/no pass) or S/U (satisfactory/unsatisfactory) grades, contact the UO Office of Admissions.

If you have any questions, comments or wish for us to add an institution that you do not find on the above listings, please let us know.