Credit Transfer Pages

Credit Transfer

Credit Transfer is the Ohio Board of Regents initiative to manage, direct and promote all programs related to and because of the Ohio Articulation and Transfer Policy created in response to legislative concerns over the ability of students to transfer effectively between Ohio’s public post-secondary institutions of higher education.

An Articulation and Transfer Advisory Council was created to facilitate and guide the efforts that will ease credit transfer among Ohio's institutions of higher education.

Academic Calendar Conversion
Articulation and Transfer is working to make the transition from quarters to semesters for 17 institutions as smooth as possible. See our calendar conversion Web pages for more information on this historic transition.

Transfer Guarantee Reporting Systems
The Transfer Guarantee Reporting Systems is a resource to help students, parents, admissions officers, counselors, academic advisors, registrars, and other college and university personnel with the transfer of credits by identifying statewide guarantees for the Ohio Transfer Module (OTM) and Transfer Assurance Guide (TAG) initiatives.

Ohio Transfer Module (OTM)
The Ohio Transfer Module (OTM), which is a subset or a complete set of a public college's or university's general education requirement that represents a common body of knowledge and academic skills, is comprised of 36-40 semester hours or 54-60 quarter hours of courses in the following fields: English composition and oral communication; mathematics, statistics and formal/symbolic logic; arts and humanities; social and behavioral sciences; and natural sciences. Additional elective hours from among the five areas make up the total hours for a completed Transfer Module.

Transfer Assurance Guides (TAGs)
The Transfer Assurance Guides include the Ohio Transfer Module – both required and elective courses, and then moves beyond those courses into additional hours in pre-major and major courses. Courses in a TAGs are guaranteed to transfer and apply directly to the major. In its totality, the TAGs become a guaranteed pathway for students and is a very powerful advising tool for faculty and other advisors. There are 38 TAGs in 8 specific discipline areas presently involving 6,500 plus courses. The TAGs are developed, approved, and monitored by Ohio’s public institutions for higher education.

Career Technical Credit Transfer (CT²)
Legislation directs the Ohio Board of Regents to work collaboratively with the Ohio Department of Education, public adult and secondary career technical education, and state-supported institutions of higher education to establish criteria, policies, and procedures to transfer agree-upon technical courses from one system to another. Presently five areas of transfer are being developed: Nursing, Engineering Technology, Medical Assisting, Information Technology (Networking), and Automotive Technology.

Advanced Placement (AP)
Legislation passed in 2007 and taking effect in the fall of 2009 guarantees college credit for any of the 36 Advanced Placement tests currently available from the College Board. Any Ohio student attending an Ohio public institution of higher education who scores a '3' or higher on an AP test will receive this credit, which will usually count towards the general education curriculum, and in many instances the Ohio Transfer Module credit, or even a TAG.

Articulation and Transfer Clearinghouse (ATC)
The Articulation and Transfer Clearinghouse (ATC) is being developed to support Articulation and Transfer policies.