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How It Works

So what happens when you transfer? Your four-year college will look at the courses you took and the grades you earned at your two-year college and decide how much credit to give you. Each course is worth a certain number of credits, often three, and students need to earn enough credits, usually 120, to graduate.

Here are more transfer facts:

• If enough of your courses transfer, you’ll start at the four-year college as a junior.

• If you don’t get credit for some of your courses, you may need to take them again at the four-year college.

• When you graduate from the four-year college, only that college’s name will appear on your bachelor’s degree.