Undergraduate Transfer Credit

The goal of the following policy is to ensure that students from other campuses meet the same standards required of students who take all their courses at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's College of Journalism and Mass Communications.

The college will accept no more than 15 semester hours of grades less than a C from any program outside the University of Nebraska system. No grades less than a C will count toward a major, a minor, or concentration.

The college will accept up to 6 hours in journalism and mass communications courses taken at institutions that do not have an accreditated journalism and mass communications program. Students must take the remainder of the required hours in journalism courses on campus at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In advertising, these courses must include 460 and 489 and in broadcasting, 370 and 372. In news-editorial, the courses must include 302 and one selected from the following: NEWS 303, 304, or a 400level writing course. Students from ACEJMC-accredited programs may request equivalency reviews of the required courses at those schools. Degree candidates must accumulate 80 credit hours of non-journalism classes, 65 of those in disciplines listed as liberal arts.

Credit for courses taken at foreign universities and colleges will be transferred only after evaluation by the appropriate professor in the major. This evaluation may include examination of the student over subject matter studied at the foreign institution.

Normally, credit is not given for pre-university work. In some instances, it may be possible to receive credit through satisfactory examination.