TESU and the NJ transfer agreement

[Kgaul]

After seeing a few people discussing where they were going to stay for graduation it occurred to me that many if you live outside of New Jersey and may not be aware of New Jersey's transfer agreement. If you get a degree in New Jersey it will be recognized by any other school in the state. Classes have equivalents it must be excepted by the other schools in the state . I feel like I am explaining this poorly. For example, I have an associates degree from Brookdale community college in New Jersey so when I applied to TESU I automatically got those first 60 credits waived. At Brookdale I just had to have one lab science, but at Thomas Edison I was supposed to have four credits of science But this is waived because I have completed my associates degree from another college with in the state. This stemmed from issues people were having transferring from their community college to their four year state school and having to make up different requirements and not having all of their credit excepted. You can read it here
http://www.state.nj.us/highereducation/P...tOct08.pdf

[Kgaul]

Also if you want to transfer any class from one of New Jersey's two year schools to one of New Jersey's four year schools you can look up it's exact equivalent at Njtransfer.com

[MD_AJIBULU]

After seeing a few people discussing where they were going to stay for graduation it occurred to me that many if you live outside of New Jersey and may not be aware of New Jersey's transfer agreement. If you get a degree in New Jersey it will be recognized by any other school in the state. Classes have equivalents it must be excepted by the other schools in the state . I feel like I am explaining this poorly. For example, I have an associates degree from Brookdale community college in New Jersey so when I applied to TESU I automatically got those first 60 credits waived. At Brookdale I just had to have one lab science, but at Thomas Edison I was supposed to have four credits of science But this is waived because I have completed my associates degree from another college with in the state. This stemmed from issues people were having transferring from their community college to their four year state school and having to make up different requirements and not having all of their credit excepted. You can read it here
http://www.state.nj.us/highereducation/P...tOct08.pdf

Hi Kgaul, this is great info! Connecticut has the same transfer and Articulation Agreement i.e, Charter Oaks College
http://www.ct.edu/files/pdfs/BOR-transfe...eement.pdf

I would hope that all states have this same arrangement since a community college education (for Gen Eds especially) should not be different from a university education.

[davewill]

We've discussed it here before. It's only useful if you've earned an associates from a NJ community college. It doesn't apply to a degree (even an associates) from a 4-year school.

[sarg123]

Also if you want to transfer any class from one of New Jersey's two year schools to one of New Jersey's four year schools you can look up it's exact equivalent at Njtransfer.com

Last time I looked, TESU didn't have anything listed.

[dfrecore]

One of the things you have to look at, is that the CC's in a state will work with the 4-yr colleges there to make the requirements for the CC AA/AS closely match the first 60cr needed in a degree at the 4-yr college. So when you look, yes, you will see a few minor instances here and there where they don't match perfectly. But in general, the CC had to make their AA/AS degrees acceptable to the 4-yr college to begin with - otherwise, the 4-yr colleges would have put up a stink and fought this tooth and nail.

CA has similar articulation agreements - and even separate ones for the CC-to-CSU system, the CC-to-UC system, and then private colleges have their own between local CC's. They have a very specific list of courses they will accept, but it's very easy to meet the requirements as they lay it out VERY clearly. We also have automatic acceptance at the CSU-system schools if you get your transfer requirements completed at a local CC. So, if my daughter gets her transfer requirements at our local CC (Palomar) and maintains a certain GPA (maybe 2.5 or even 2.0), she is automatically accepted at CSU-San Marcos. And, if she wants a degree that CSUSM doesn't have, then she's automatically accepted at San Diego State University. Different colleges have auto-acceptance at different schools, but in general, it's the closest one to the CC. It's a good system that works well, because you can plan out your degree right online, easily, and make sure you get all of not only your transfer requirements, but any other requirements that you want to get at the CC due to cost (you can transfer in more than 60cr).