Transfer

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Community and technical colleges play an important role in producing baccalaureate degree graduates in Washington State.

• 41 percent of bachelor's degrees awarded each year go to students who started at community or technical colleges.
• Community and technical college transfers are well represented in business, science, engineering and education majors at universities in Washington.
• University branch campuses and off-campus programs are expanding access to baccalaureate degrees.
• Community and technical colleges open the door to baccalaureate degrees for thousands who might not otherwise go to a university.

The CTC system works to smooth transfer Between Colleges

• Reciprocity agreements that smooth transfer within the CTC system - see the transfer policy section for more information.
• See also the Common Course Numbering section on the SBCTC web site

Colleges and Universities have developed statewide agreements and process that smooth transfer for more than 15,000 students each year

 

• 2 Statewide Transfer Agreements: "direct transfer agreement" (DTA) and the Associate in Science-Transfer (AS-T) agreement. These help CTC students to select the courses that parallel course work freshmen and sophomores at universities take to prepare for the same college majors. Students completing these degreess, if accepted at the unviersity, transfer as juniors. See the JAOG link for information on how these agreements are updated.
• The Major Related Program (MRP) pathways meet either the DTA or AS-T agreement requirements and they detail courses needed to prepare for a specific field of study regradless of which university the student will attend. The JOAG evaluates and maintains these agreements. To see these agreements go to:
  • For agreements based on the DTA in business, education, pre-nursing and several other fields
  • For science, engineering and engineering technology agreements based on the AS-T
• For more information see the transfer policy page (part way down the page)

 

 

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