Neat old article on credit transfers

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In Texas, if you transfer from any taxpayer supported college or university to another taxpayer supported institution of higher learning, undergraduate credits generally transfer very easily. There are two reasons. One is the common course numbering system. The other is that the legislature passed a law reforming the transfer of credits process. Once the core curriculum is satisfied at one institution, a notation of core curriculum complete is added to the transcript. This notation compels other taxpayer supported institution to accept the core courses in transfer. However, non-core courses may not transfer.

If the core curriculum designated at one school is less than the core curriculum at another school and the student is officially core complete, other schools must accept this and can't force the student to take additional core courses. However, if the additional core courses are also specifically required for a student's major (such as an extra math class for an engineering degree), then the student will have to take the additional course.

The state I grew up in has the same sort of thing. They have a loophole though that I was unaware of, which says that if you move out of state and pursue college elsewhere then move back - they aren't required to transfer it as a block of credits. So I started at a community college, went out of state for some elective credits, move back to my home state and finished two associates at a community college. When I went to transfer to the state 4 year colleges they all told me they weren't required to accept the courses as a block because I'd taken 9 elective credits out of state. They wouldn't even transfer my general ed courses as a block, even though they were all taken in-state.