Pacific School of Religion

You may transfer up to two-thirds (up to 49% for Northwest House of Studies students) of your required units from an accredited theological or graduate school if that credit has not already been applied to a degree and if that credit is evaluated by the Assistant Dean for Academic Programs as an appropriate part of your program. Furthermore, no credits that fall outside the lapsed-time rule (see time lapse limit in Common Academic Policies chart) may be counted toward the program. Petitions to Transfer Credits should be submitted by the end of the first semester of your program so that a decision may be rendered in time for you to plan your program.

Petitions should include official transcripts showing the credits earned if they are not already obtained during the Admissions process. All petitioned courses are assumed to be transferred for elective credit unless otherwise noted. In the case that you wish to petition a transferred course to be used for one of your basic requirements or any other kind of requirement, you must note that on your petition, and you must supply course descriptions and syllabi of those courses to accompany the written petition request. Requests without syllabi will be processed for elective credit only.

Transferring Field Education credits requires, in addition to transcripts, submission of all field education report documenting the field education experience and evaluation from the previous institution.

In general if the transferred courses fall within the above guidelines, and they are graduate level courses of a theological nature from an ATS or WASC-equivalent accredited seminary (or equivalent), they will most likeley be accepted for transfer at PSR. As PSR is on a semester system, quarter credits are transferred in at 2/3 the original rate.

Certificate of Ministry Students (CMS) who already possess a bachelors degree, may petition to transfer up to 7.5 credits toward a different PSR program the the end of their first semester at PSR.

Below are Petitions to Transfer Credit for GTU Common MA students and non-GTU Common MA students. Please fill out the appropriate form and submit to the PSR Office of Academic Affairs:

Petition to Transfer Credits for PSR Students (non-GTU MA) >>
Petition to Transfer Credits for GTU Common MA Students >>