Transfer Affairs

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Transfer services, resources and information include:

  • Transfer credit evaluations
  • Transfer compact and certification agreements
  • Joint Admissions with the Massachusetts university system and most of the state colleges
  • Tuition Advantage Program information
  • Individual counseling
  • Transfer workshops
  • College fair information
  • Numerous college catalogs, viewbooks, and applications
  • Scholarship information and more......

Transfer Advising

Students interested in transferring to four-year colleges should plan early in order to take courses or programs paralleling requirements at the college they plan to attend. Assistance, in the form of individual advisement, is available by contacting the Office of Cooperative Education/Career Services and Transfer Affairs. In addition, catalogs, applications, and other transfer resources are available.  Prospective transfer students should also review the Commonwealth Transfer Compact Information below:

The following link provides information as to the STCC academic programs approved for Joint Admissions at the Massachusetts four-year Colleges and Universities: http://www.mass.edu/jointadmissions

Commonwealth Transfer Compact

The Commonwealth Transfer Compact is an articulation agreement between the four-year state colleges and universities and the community colleges in Massachusetts. In 1990 the Compact was revised to provide a better process to facilitate the transfer of college credits and to ensure appropriate recognition for academic progress earned by students in a community college who wish to transfer and continue their education at a Massachusetts public college or university. The Compact provides that an associate of art or an associate of science degree will be transferred as a unit (providing the student meets all admission requirements and is accepted) and will be applied toward a bachelor's degree, if the following courses are included in the associate degree:

Compact Core Courses

  • 6 semester hours of English composition/writing
  • 9 semester hours of behavioral and social sciences
  • 9 semester hours of humanities and fine arts
  • 8 semester hours of natural or physical science (with a laboratory component)
  • 3 semester hours of mathematics

The remaining credits making up the total of 60 are to be on a college level. Other points of clarification regarding the Compact include:

  1. The student must complete the associate degree with a minimum of 60 semester hours exclusive of developmental coursework.
  2. All Transfer Compact requirements must be fulfilled while meeting the requirements for the associate degree.
  3. A Compact student may be required to take no more than 68 additional credits at the four-year college unless the student changes his/her program upon entrance, or additional general education requirements and/or requirements of the major total more than 68 credits.
  4. The grade of "D" or "D-" will be accepted toward the bachelor's degree, but a receiving institution is required to apply "D" or "D-" credit toward a major only if it does so for "native" students, that is students who enrolled in the four-year institution as freshmen.
  5. A student must have achieved a cumulative grade point average of not less than 2.0 at the community college awarding the degree to receive Transfer Compact status.
  6. If a student has not completed the associate's degree, credit earned does not come under the protection of the articulation agreement.
  7. Transfer Compact status does not assure admission to any state college or university. It only assures acceptance of college-level credit.

In addition to the Commonwealth Transfer Compact with the public institutions of higher education in the state, the College has individual transfer agreements with several private and public colleges. These agreements ensure graduates of corresponding STCC programs entrance on the Junior level.

Transfer Articulation Agreements currently are in effect with the following institutions:

  • American Armenian International College of LaVerne, CA - B.S., Optical Engineering
  • American International College - B.S., Nursing; B.S., Business Administration
  • Boston Architectural Center - Architectural Certificate Program
  • Boston University College of Engineering - B.S., Engineering
  • Elms College - B.S.W., Social Work; B.S., Nursing, B.S.,
  • Health Science Management; B.A., Paralegal Studies/Legal Studies
  • Fitchburg State College - B.S., Industrial Arts
  • Framingham State College - B.S., Nursing
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - B.S., Engineering
  • Rochester Institute of Technology - B.S., Engineering Technology
  • Russell Sage College - B.A., Mathematics; B.S., Computer Science
  • SUNY Institute of Tech. at Utica/Rome - B.S., Electrical Engineering Technology; B.S., Civil Engineering Technology
  • Salem State College - B.S., Fire Science Administration
  • Springfield College - B.S., Biology; B.S., Computer Science; B.S., Management Information Systems; B.S., Business Administration
  • University of Hartford - B.S., Respiratory Therapy
  • University of Massachusetts at Amherst - B.S., Engineering; B.S., Education; B.S., Nursing; B.S., Building Materials and Woods Technology
  • University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth - B.S., Engineering
  • Ward College - B.S., Electrical Engineering Technology
  • Western New England College - B.S., Engineering, B.S., Business Administration
  • Westfield State College - B.S., Early Childhood Education; B.S., Elementary Education; B.S., Secondary Education; B.S., Management Information Systems
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute - B.S., Engineering