Transfer Policies School of Education
General Transfer Policies:
- Accreditation: Regionally or Nationally Accredited Institution, approved through the Department of Education
- Grade: B- or higher. Grades of P are eligible to transfer as long as the grading system at the transfer institution states that P is equivalent to B- or better.
- Equivalency: Similar in content and scope of courses offered at Liberty University. Taken from a graduate program in a closely related field
- Non-Transferrable Courses: Thesis, Dissertation, Comprehensive Exam, Capstone, Practicum, Student Teaching, and Internship courses are not able to be fulfilled by transfer credit. Additional courses are listed below by program
- Hours: 3 semester hours (4.5 quarter hours) per course
- Age Limit: 10 years for graduate programs
- Age Limit: 7 years for doctoral programs (Exception: PhD Advanced Educational Studies 10 years)
- Credit Limit: Most programs allow a maximum of 50% of the program hours to be transferred. Credit from a conferred Liberty University degree is counted towards transfer hours (exception: The PhD in Advanced Educational Studies allows up to 39 hours of transfer credit.)
Degree Specific Transfer Policies:
MAT programs (all cognates)
The following courses are non-transferable:
- EDLC 504 (Historical & Philosophical Foundations of Education)
- EDLC 530 (Teaching Mathematics)
- EDLC 554 (Reading and Language Acquisition)
- EDLC 571 (Curriculum Fundamentals)
- EDLC 622 (Educational Assessment and Intervention)
- EDLC 623 (Principles of Behavior Management)
- EDLC 625 (Content Instructional Procedures)
- EDLC 632 (Literacy & Language Instruction)
- EDUC 673 (Curriculum & Methods for Middle School)
- ENGL 654 (Methods of Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum)
- MLAN 519 (World Language Acquisition Inst Approaches & Assessment)
MEd
Administration & Supervision
Math Specialist
Reading Specialist
The following courses are non-transferable:
- EDAS 640 (School Administration)
- EDAS 646 (School-Community Relations)
- EDAS 647 (School Law)
- EDAS 648 (School Finance & Management)
- EDMS 650 (School Based Mathematics Programs)
- EDMS 652 (Trends & Inquiry for the Math Specialist)
- EDRS 650 (School Based Literacy Leadership)
- EDRS 652 (Trends & Inquiry for the Reading Specialist)
- EDRS 659 (Foundations & Theories of Literacy Instruction)
- EDUC 622 (Educational Assessment & Intervention)
- EDUC 623 (Principles of Behavior Management)
- EDUC 641 (Supervision of Instruction)
- EDUC 645 (Foundations for Educational Leaders)
- EDUC 673 (Curriculum and Methods for Middle School)
MEd in Higher Education (all cognates)
MEd: Curriculum and Instruction (all cognates)
The following courses are non-transferable:
- EDUC 696 (Current Issues in Education)
EdS (all cognates)
EdD (all cognates)
Admissions Requirements
The following courses are non-transferrable:
- EDUC 880 (Applied Research Concepts & Methodology)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Education
Admissions Requirements