Minot State University Transfers

MSU considers students who transfer with complete general education requirements under one of our agreements as meeting our Critical Competencies requirements.

MSU considers students who transfer with 24 or more credits towards graduation—excluding credits earned from dual credit before high school graduation and credits earned by examination—exempt from  UNIV 110 First Year Seminar. Students need to complete all missing required courses in Minot State University’s General Education model.

If students earned credit for a course at another institution and think MSU should count it as a general education course, request a course transfer.

Course Transfer Requests
The following procedure helps students who want a course from another university to count towards Minot State’s Critical Competencies GE:

1. The advisor asks the relevant department to equate the transfer course to an MSU course with the requested CC designation. If equated, the transfer request is complete. (Course substitution fails to award GE credit.) If not,
2. The advisor asks the relevant department to equate the transfer course to the requested CC category. If equated, the transfer request is complete. If not,
3. The advisor asks our committee to apply a requested CC designation to the transfer course.
   1. You (the advisor) and the student work together to complete the Transfer Credit for General Education form, which also requires the course’s syllabus and rationale from the student describing how the class meets the CC requirement. [ Link the new transfer credit form ]
   2. Send the signed form and supporting documentation to the Transfer Specialist in the Registrar’s Office, who then passes the materials to our committee for consideration.
   3. The committee’s chair sends the decision back to the Transfer Specialist in the Registrar’s Office and notifies the advisor, bypassing Faculty Senate consideration.

The following procedure helps students who want a course from another university to count towards Minot State’s Required Core or Foundational Content:

1. The student completes the Unofficial Transcript Evaluation Request form, which also requires unofficial transcripts, and sends the signed form and transcripts to the Transfer Specialist in the Registrar’s Office.
2. The Registrar’s Office will determine credits that apply to our General Education Requirements and issue a transcript summary to the student.

Planning a Transfer To or From Minot State University
North Dakota’s General Education Requirement Transfer Agreement (GERTA) guide provides information to transfer general education courses within the North Dakota University System (NDUS) and other associated North Dakota higher education institutions. The NDUS developed the transfer agreement to assist students who transfer within the eleven NDUS campuses and tribal colleges in North Dakota. NDUS deems students who complete the lower division General Education Requirement (GER) at one campus as completing them at another. A student with incomplete GER before a transfer will find their GE coursework acceptable as GER at another, although some redistribution of courses may result.

In the 2023 GERTA guide, Minot State plans to list the following six components for General Education Requirements:

1. Communication (9 credits: 6 credits of English and 3 of Speech)
   Any course marked ND:ENGL may apply to the 6-credit English requirement. Any course marked ND:COMM may apply to the Speech requirement.
2. Humanities  (6 credits)
   Any course marked ND:HUM. 
3. Social Science (9 credits: 6 credits of Social Science and 3 of History)
   Any course marked ND:SS may apply to the 6-credit Social Science requirement. Any course marked ND:HIST may apply to the History requirement.
4. Mathematics (3-4 credits)
   Any course marked ND:MATH that is College Algebra or higher.
5. Science (8 credits)
   Any course marked ND: LABSC may apply to the Laboratory Science requirement. (Lab Science excludes courses marked ND:SCI.)
6. FIRST-YEAR EXPERIENCE (1-2 credits)
   MSU requires students transferring less than 24 credits, excluding credit earned by examination and early entry or dual credit coursework, to take UNIV 110.

Note: Our university also requires Critical Competencies (CC). These competencies overlap our GER above, meaning students can obtain most of them within the distribution of GER.

Students planning to transfer to Minot State University should contact the former campus’s Registrar’s Office to forward GER records to our campus’s Registrar’s Office. Credits taken elsewhere and coded as indicated above will help you complete Minot State GER.

Students planning to transfer away should either complete Minot State GER or take transferable courses from our GE inventory (e.g., ND:ENGL, ND:HUM, ND:LABSC).

Please direct questions about the Transfer Agreement to the Registrar’s Office.

North Dakota University System Articulation and Transfer Page

Pre Fall 2023

• Archived course application materials