Transferring from Other Institutions

Students who wish to transfer to UNM Gallup from other schools must meet the same admissions requirements as all other applicants. Students must indicate on the application all previous college attendance. Applicants may not ignore previous college attendance even if they prefer to repeat all previous work. Students found guilty of nondisclosure or misrepresentation in filling out admissions forms are subject to disciplinary action, including possible disenrollment. To receive transfer credit from previous institutions, official transcripts from those institutions must be mailed directly to UNM Gallup Office of Admissions. A transfer evaluation, reflecting those transfer credits acceptable at UNM, will be generated only after the student is officially admitted to a degree program at UNM Gallup or UNM.

Transfer Students will be awarded full credit for coursework completed with grades of C or higher at fully accredited institutions if the courses are the same or equivalent to UNM courses. Neither UNM nor UNM Gallup, however, accepts remedial coursework for transfer. Only credit earned in non-technical subjects is initially accepted from technical institutes, which are accredited by a regional collegiate accrediting association. Normally, no credit is accepted by UNM from technical institutes, business schools, or other post high school institutions which are not members of regional collegiate accrediting associations. However, students applying to, or currently enrolled in, the University who have earned technical credit which they believe would be applicable to the program they are pursuing may have official transcripts sent from their previous schools to the UNM Gallup Office of Admissions. It will then be the student's responsibility to request referral of the transcript by the Admissions Office to the department of the University having supervision over his/her particular program. The department will determine whether any of the credit is acceptable to its program and return the transcript, with recommendations, to the Office of Admissions. An interview or demonstration of competence, or both, may be required before the decision regarding credit is made. Acceptance of such credit would be binding only to the specific program recommending credit. It would be subject to reevaluation should the student later enter another program offered by the University.