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Transfer Guide
In making
plans to attend York Technical College, please use this publication as a
guide for the transfer process.
Definition of
a Transfer Student
Students who
have taken college-level coursework after graduating from high school are
classified as transfer applicants when seeking admission to York Technical
College.
Admission
Requirements for Transfer Students
Students
planning to transfer need to complete the following steps:
o Complete the York
Technical College Admission Application.
o Have official
transcripts of all previous college credit earned sent to the College.
o Contact the Admissions
Office to determine if taking a placement test is necessary.
o Have an interview with
an Admissions Counselor and be admitted into a program.
o Students who would like
to be admitted in absentia should contact an Admissions Counselor.
Please Note:
Qualification requirements for some Health and Human Services programs may
include additional testing and proof of high school or GED completion.
Students should contact Admissions for information about admission
requirements for these programs.
Admissions
Office Contact Information
Admissions
Office Telephone: (803) 327-8008
The
York
Technical College Admission Application is available on the College’s Web Site.
Transfer
Credit Policies
Students
planning to transfer credit from York Technical College to other
postsecondary institutions are responsible for confirming the
transferability of courses with those institutions.
Students
planning to transfer courses from other postsecondary institutions to York
Technical College must adhere to the following guidelines:
Students must
have official transcripts of completed courses from postsecondary
institutions attended sent to the College.
Course credit
must have been earned at a postsecondary institution accredited at the
college level by a nationally recognized regional accrediting agency or by a
nationally recognized health accrediting agency for hospital-based transfer
credit. Coursework completed at either hospital or college-sponsored
accredited radiologic technology programs that are recognized by the Joint
Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology is eligible for
consideration.
To receive
transfer credit in a program, a course must be required or approved as an
elective in the curriculum being entered.
A grade of
"C" or better must have been earned in each course to be considered for
transfer.
Course
credits being transferred must have been earned within the last 12 years
unless a degree or diploma was earned. Shorter course eligibility time
limits may apply to selected courses in certain programs.
Credit for
the courses to be transferred must show on an official transcript from the
granting institution.
Credits
transferred from other institutions may not exceed 75 percent of the total
credits required by York Technical College for graduation.
Courses
transferred into a curriculum must have equivalent or greater credits and be
comparable to York Technical College courses which are required or approved
as electives in the curriculum. These courses will be assigned a grade of
"TR" and will not be calculated in the grade-point ratio (GPR).
New students
eligible to receive transfer credit must enroll within two semesters of the
time the credit is approved. Currently enrolled or former students may
transfer credit back to York Technical College to graduate as long as the
Transfer Credit and graduation
guidelines are met.
Academic
Fresh Start
The Academic
Fresh Start procedure is designed to assist returning students, who meet
specific conditions, to have a fresh start in how their previous academic
records are applied toward meeting graduation requirements in credit
programs leading to a degree, diploma or certificate. Any student who
meets the following conditions should contact the Registrar’s Office for an
application.
Academic
Fresh Start is available only to students after re-entry to York Technical
College following two years’ absence. It is the responsibility of the
student to apply in writing for Academic Fresh Start within the first two
semesters following re-admission. In order to qualify, students applying for
Academic Fresh Start must have a cumulative GPA below 2.0 for all course
work. Students must also establish a term of progress (2.0 term GPA) before
Academic Fresh Start will be applied.
Academic
Fresh Start applies only to the course work taken prior to the term of
re-enrollment. Under this process, all courses previously taken at YTC are
removed from the grade-point average calculation but still appear on the
student’s transcript with the original grades earned. Courses
completed with grades of “A”, “B”, or “C” may still be used to meet program
requirements, if applicable; however, grades of “D” may no longer be used.
Academic Fresh Start does not apply when determining eligibility for
academic honors at York Technical College.
All students
are responsible for satisfying requirements for their academic programs and
for maintaining the required GPA. Students should seek guidance from an
advisor but the final responsibility remains that of the student.
Articulation
Agreements and/or Bridge Programs
York Technical College has articulation agreements and/or Bridge programs
with the following institutions: College of Charleston, South Carolina State
University, University of South Carolina, and Lander University.
For more information about these programs or to access these
agreements, please contact the Institutional Transfer Officer at York
Technical College.
Institutional
Transfer Officer
York
Technical College's Transfer Officer is:
Laura R.
Sturgis
State-wide
Transfer Agreements
The South
Carolina Commission on Higher Education has established a list of technical
college courses which are universally accepted by South Carolina's
state-supported colleges and universities. The courses offered by York
Technical College which may transfer for credit in various majors at the
state-supported senior colleges are listed below with an asterisk preceding
the course prefix. Students should contact the college to which they plan to
transfer for information regarding course equivalencies and transferability
towards specific programs.
Transfer:
State Policies and Procedures
The
Commission on Higher Education for the State of South Carolina coordinates
postsecondary education in public-supported institutions, including policies
and procedures for students and their course credits transferring among
these institutions. The Commission has established transfer policies and
procedures, which all public institutions must follow. The following
Transfer information was required for inclusion by the Commission on Higher
Education (CHE). The College assumes no liability for the accuracy of
the information provided by the CHE.
Statewide
Articulation of 86 Courses
The Statewide
Articulation Agreement of 86 courses approved by the South Carolina
Commission on Higher Education for transfer from two- to four-year public
institutions will be applicable to all public institutions, including
two-year institutions and institutions within the same system. In instances
where an institution does not have synonymous courses to ones on this list,
it will identify comparable courses or course categories for acceptance of
general education courses on the statewide list (See Table B).
Admissions
Criteria, Course Grades, GPA’s, Validations
All four-year
public institutions will issue annually in August a transfer guide covering
at least the following items:
The
definition of a transfer student and requirements for admission both to the
institution and, if more selective, requirements for admission to particular
programs.
Limitations
placed by the institution or its programs for acceptance of standardized
examinations (e.g., SAT, ACT) taken more than a given time ago, for academic
coursework taken elsewhere, for coursework repeated due to failure, for
coursework taken at another institution while the student is academically
suspended at his/her home institution, and so forth.
Institutional
and, if more selective, programmatic maximums of course credits allowable in
transfer.
Institutional
procedures used to calculate student applicants' GPAs for transfer
admission. Such procedures shall describe how nonstandard grades
(withdrawal, withdrawal failing, repeated course, etc.) are evaluated; and
they will also describe whether all coursework taken prior to transfer or
just coursework deemed appropriate to the student's intended four-year
program of study is calculated for purposes of admission to the institution
and/or programmatic major.
Lists of all
courses accepted from each technical college (including the 86 courses in
the Statewide Articulation Agreement) and the course equivalencies
(including "free elective" category) at the home institution for the courses
accepted.
Lists of all
articulation agreements with any public South Carolina two-year or other
institution of higher education, together with information about how
interested parties can access these agreements.
Lists of the
institutions Transfer Officer(s) personnel together with telephone and FAX
numbers, office address, and e-mail address.
Institutional
policies related to "academic bankruptcy" (i.e., removing an entire
transcript or parts thereof from a failed or underachieving record after a
period of years has passed) so that re-entry into the four-year institution
with course credit earned in the interim elsewhere is done without regard to
the student's earlier record.
"Residency
requirements" for the minimum number of hours required to be earned at the
institution for the degree.
Coursework
(individual courses, transfer blocks, statewide agreements) covered within
these procedures will be transferable if the student has completed the
coursework with a "C" grade (2.0 on a 4.0 scale) or above, but transfer of
grades does not relieve the student of the obligation to meet any GPA
requirements or other admissions requirements of the institution or program
to which application has been made.
Any four-year
institution which has institutional or programmatic admissions requirements
for transfer students with cumulative grade point averages (GPA’s) higher
than 2.0 on a 4.0 scale will apply such entrance requirements equally to
transfer students from regionally accredited South Carolina public
institutions regardless of whether students are transferring from a
four-year or two-year institution.
Any
multi-campus institution or system will certify by letter to the Commission
that all coursework at all of its campuses applicable to a particular degree
program of study is fully acceptable in transfer to meet degree requirements
in the same degree program at any other of its campuses.
Any
coursework (individual courses, transfer blocks, statewide agreements)
covered within these procedures will be transferable to any public
institution without any additional fee and without any further encumbrance
such as a "validation examination," "placement examination/instrument,"
"verification instrument," or any other stricture, notwithstanding any
institutional or system policy, procedure, or regulation to the contrary.
Transfer
Blocks, Statewide Agreements, Completion of the AA/AS Degree
[Students
planning to transfer credit from York Technical College to other
postsecondary institutions are responsible for confirming the
transferability of courses with those institutions.]
The following
Transfer Blocks/Statewide Agreements taken at any two-year public
institution in South Carolina will be accepted in their totality toward
meeting baccalaureate degree requirements at all four-year public
institutions in relevant four-year degree programs, as follows:
Arts,
Humanities, and Social Sciences: Established curriculum block of 46-48
semester hours.
Business
Administration: Established curriculum block of 46-51 semester hours.
Engineering:
Established curriculum block of 33 semester hours.
Science and
Mathematics: Established curriculum block of 51-53 semester hours.
Teacher
Education: Established curriculum block of 38-39 semester hours for Early
Childhood, Elementary, and Special Education students only. Secondary
education majors and students seeking certification who are not majoring in
teacher education should consult the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
or the Math and Science transfer blocks, as relevant, to assure
transferability of coursework.
Nursing: By
statewide agreement, at least 60 semester hours will
be accepted by any public four-year
institution toward the baccalaureate completion program (BSN) from graduates
of any South Carolina public associate degree program in nursing (ADN),
provided that the program is accredited by the National League of Nursing
and that the graduate has successfully passed the National Licensure
Examination (NCLEX) and is a currently licensed Registered Nurse.
Any "unique"
academic program not specifically or by extension covered by one of the
statewide transfer blocks/agreements listed in #4 above must either create
its own transfer block of 35 or more credit hours with the approval of CHE
staff or will adopt either the Arts/Social Science/Humanities or the
Science/Mathematics block. The institution at which such program is located
will inform the staff of the CHE and every institutional president and
vice-president for academic affairs about this decision.
Any student
who has completed either an Associate of Arts or Associate of Science degree
program at any public two-year South Carolina institution which contains
within it the total coursework found in either the Arts/Social
Sciences/Humanities Transfer Block or the Math/Science Transfer Block will
automatically be entitled to junior-level status or its equivalent at
whatever public senior institution to which the student might have been
admitted.
Related
Reports and Statewide Documents
All
applicable recommendations found in the Commission's report to the General
Assembly on the School-to-Work Act (approved by the Commission and
transmitted to the General Assembly on July 6, 1995) are hereby incorporated
into the procedures for transfer of coursework among two and four-year
institutions.
The policy
paper entitled State Policy on Transfer and Articulation, as amended
to reflect changes in the numbers of transfer blocks and other Commission
action since July 6, 1995, is hereby adopted as the statewide policy for
institutional good practice in the sending and receiving of all course
credits to be transferred.
Assurance of
Quality
All claims
from any public two- or four-year institution challenging the effective
preparation of any other public institution's coursework for transfer
purposes will be evaluated and appropriate measures will be taken to
reassure that the quality of the coursework has been reviewed and approved
on a timely basis by sending and receiving institutions alike. This process
of formal review will occur every four years through the staff of the
Commission on Higher Education, beginning with the approval of these
procedures.
Statewide
Publication and Distribution of Information on Transfer
The staff of
the Commission on Higher Education will print and distribute copies of these
Procedures upon their acceptance by the Commission. The staff will also
place this document and the Appendices on the Commission's Home Page on the
Internet under the title "Transfer Policies."
By September
1 of each year, all public four-year institutions will place the following
materials on their internet websites:
A copy of
this entire document.
A copy of the
institution's entire transfer guide.
By September
1 of each year, the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education
will place the following materials on its internet website:
A copy of
this entire document.
Provide to
the Commission staff in format suitable for placing on the Commission's
website a list of all articulation agreements that each of the sixteen
technical colleges has with public and other four-year institutions of
higher education, together with information about how interested parties can
access those agreements.
Each two-year
and four-year public institutional catalog will contain a section entitled
"Transfer: State Policies and Procedures." Such section at a minimum will:
Publish these
procedures in their entirety (except Appendices).
Designate a
chief Transfer Officer at the institution who will provide information and
other appropriate support for students considering transfer and recent
transfers.
Serve as a
clearinghouse for information on issues of transfer in the State of South
Carolina.
Provide
definitive institutional rulings on transfer questions for the institution's
students under these procedures.
Work closely
with feeder institutions to assure ease in transfer for their students.
Designate
other programmatic Transfer Officer(s) as the size of the institution and
the variety of its programs might warrant.
Refer
interested parties to the Institutional Transfer Guide.
Refer
interested parties to institutional and Commission on Higher Education's
websites for further information regarding transfer.
In
recognition of its widespread acceptance and use throughout the United
States, SPEEDE/EXPRESS should be adopted by all public institutions and
systems as the standard for electronic transmission of all student transfer
data.
In
conjunction with the colleges and universities, develop and implement a
statewide Transfer Equivalency Database at the earliest opportunity.
(As an
electronic counseling guide, this computerized, on-line instrument will
allow students and advisors to access all degree requirements for every
major at every public four-year institution in South Carolina. Also, the
Database will allow students to obtain a better understanding of
institutional programs and program requirements and select their transfer
courses accordingly, especially when the student knows the institution and
the major to which he/she is transferring.)
Development
of Common Course System
Adopt a
common statewide course numbering system for common freshman and sophomore
courses of the technical colleges, two-year regional campuses of the
University of South Carolina, and the senior institutions.
Adopt common
course titles and descriptions for common freshman and sophomore courses of
the technical colleges, two-year regional campuses of the University of
South Carolina, and the senior institutions. The Commission will convene
statewide disciplinary groups to engage in formal dialogue for these
purposes.
(A common
course numbering system and common course titles and descriptions for
lower-division coursework at all public institutions in the state can help
reduce confusion among students about the equivalency of their two-year
coursework with lower-division coursework at the four-year level. To this
end, a common system leaves no doubt about the comparability of content,
credit, and purpose among the lower-division courses at all public colleges
and universities in South Carolina. It would also help eliminate
institutional disagreement over the transferability of much lower-division
coursework, thus clearing a path for easier movement between the technical
colleges and senior institutions.)
The State of
South Carolina's transfer policies and procedures may be found in their
entirety on the Commission of Higher Education's home page on the Internet:
It is the
policy of York Technical College not to discriminate on the basis of sex,
race, age, religion, veteran status, national origin or disability in its
educational programs, activities, or employment policies. The Title IX and
Section 504 Compliance Officer is Dr. Dennis Gribenas, Vice President for
Business Affairs, York Technical College, 452 South Anderson Road, Rock
Hill, SC 29730. Telephone: (803) 327-8000.
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