Hello;
I’m looking to transfer from a community college to another university (haven’t yet decided). I’m hoping to transfer into my junior year. I’ve been looking over transfer requirements for a lot of universities and have noticed the use of the term “course units”. One university I looked at, Princeton I believe, requires 17 course units. What do they mean by this? Is this the number of classes, or the number of credits? I’m from out the country so I’m unfamiliar with these terms.
Let me clarify: I am going to transfer I just haven’t decided where I’m going.
Universities do not always use terminology consistent with each other.
In Princeton’s case, 31-36 courses are required for graduation; 17 is around half of that amount, so 17 should refer to the number of courses that a junior-level transfer is expected to have upon transferring if admitted.
Some other universities use “units” to refer to credit-hours; typically 120-128 are needed for graduation at those universities. These universities expect junior level transfers to have 60-64 units at the time of transfer.
Still others use “units” similarly, but are on the quarter system, with 180-192 needed for graduation (1 unit on the quarter system = 2/3 unit on the semester system). Conversion between semester units and quarter units needs to be done for the purpose of transfer credit between schools using different calendars.
Thank you so much!! Very helpful. Looks like I’ll need to just pick up a few more classes this summer, and then try to transfer.
Note that when a school requires around 32 courses to graduate, it typically has courses that would be equivalent to 4 credit-hours at a school using the credit-hour system. So, for Princeton, 17 courses would be equivalent to 17 * 4 = 68 credit-hours at a school using the credit-hour system. So choose courses with sufficient credit to be equivalent (i.e. if you have 1 or 2 credit-hour courses, you need more than 17 of them).
Ok. I was looking at Penn State World Campus so I’ll keep that in mind