So I am not sure if this is mandatory but people like me currently go to a community college and after 2-3 years mattering how long they want to stay, they transfer to a 4 year university and do 2 more years there and usually finish with their degree.
My situation is as follows. I want to stay another year at my community college because well the school is fairly good and classes most likely aren’t as hard as a 4 year university according to a lot of transfers. Luckily you can transfer over 90 units when you transfer and it could be the most important classes that you would want to transfer over.
I want to stay an extra year at this community college but when I transfer over to my 4 year university I want to not finish in 2 years but rather 1. Is that possible or is it a mandatory rule to stay 2 years?
Sorry I over wrote this question I just want to clarify fully to make sure it was out there perfectly for readers to understand.
You might want to ask admissions at universities that you are considering.
For universities that I have looked at, you are required to spend at least 2 years at that university in order to graduate with a bachelor’s degree. I am not sure whether there are any universities which would allow you to graduate after only one year, but I have never heard of one.
Most, if not all colleges require X amount of credits (usually 2 years worth) be earned at their school. Also college degrees have specific course requirements, it is unlikely that your CC offers the level of courses one would need to complete a four year degree.
The university will want you to spend 2 years there before it grants a degree. If you already have a lot of classes you can add more advanced classes in your major and add a minor.
Your classes from the CC will all appear on your new transcript along with the grade but you have to make sure everything transfers not just as elective credits but as “major pre-reqs” or valid gen eds.
However the grades earned at the CC will not appear in your new GPA. You will graduate with the GPA earned at the new university.
Depending on the receiving institution, the transferred courses might not be listed, and the grades might not show. Instead there may simply be information along the lines of “Biology 6 credits 100 level”, or the course your transferred credits replace might be listed as passed.
Check your target university’s policy very carefully. Often when up to 90 semester credits can be accepted, this means that up to 90 can be accepted from 4-year institutions, but only 60 from a CC.
Many have policies that mean that most transfer students need to complete four semesters after transfer. Or the prerequisite sequencing of upper level courses for your major may be 3 or 4 semesters long.
It also depends where you want to graduate from…in NJ for example, you could do 3 years at a CC (If they allow it) and Thomas Edison State College would take all of the credits. Or you could do 2 years and transfer to our state Flag ship University, Rutgers.
So you need to choose reputation and career placement of the college you want a diploma from.