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Transfer Students
The College of Engineering admits highly qualified transfer students from both community and four-year colleges. Students may complete the first two years of study in other accredited institutions and transfer to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with little or no loss of credit, provided they follow the proper program.
Admission as a Transfer Student
For a number of good reasons, you may wish to enroll at a community college or at another four-year college or university and then transfer to the University of Illinois. If you wish to enter as a transfer student, you will have to meet three requirements:
REQ 1. You must complete 60 or more semester hours at an accredited institution.
REQ 2. You must complete basic college mathematics (through calculus), chemistry (one year), a general physics sequence (one or one and a half years), and the English composition (rhetoric) requirement.
REQ 3. You will need to meet a minimum grade-point requirement, which will be determined by the number and quality of other transfer applicants to the college that semester.
The minimum grade point average to transfer into mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, or computer engineering is 3.2 on a 4.0 scale and is slightly lower for other curriculum. Because of enrollment pressures, foreign student transfers have been admitted on a special review basis.
Remember, if you are considering a transfer to the University of Illinois Urbana Campus, you will be required to complete a full two years at the other college before transferring. Programs of study leading to a transfer to the University of Illinois as a junior have been developed for most Illinois community colleges and for some Midwestern colleges and universities.
If you are thinking about the transfer program, contact the Engineering Office of the Associate Dean for Academic Programs, 206 Engineering Hall, 217-333-2280 for the program developed for the institution you are considering.
Future admissions will be evaluated on both an overall as well as a technical grade-point average.