Office of the Provost

Student Mobility

This web page is intended to provide campus staff and administrators with information to assist in working with students and colleagues on issues of mobility and transfer.

Each year, almost 25,000 students transfer from one SUNY campus to another.  The majority of students transfer from community colleges to 4-year colleges and universities, but many students transfer from one community college to another and some even from 4-year institutions to a community college. 

In an effort to improve Student Mobility, the Office of the Provost is continually developing policies, procedures, systems and services to make SUNY the most transfer friendly higher education system in the country.

Policies and Procedures for Student Mobility

 To facilitate transfer among all of its institutions, SUNY has established policies to guarantee the transfer of credits for general education courses and courses taken in the first two years in the most frequently transferred majors.  These policies guarantee that general education credits and credits in the primary courses in the most popular disciplines transfer throughout the system.

Trustee Resolution 2009-138

Memorandum to Presidents 2010-1

Memorandum to Presidents 2011-01

General Education Information

SUNY web-based system to support student mobility

The SUNY Office of Enrollment Management Services maintains a robust web environment to support future and current SUNY students.  Significant effort has been put into developing tools to provide transfer students with information to allow them to identify courses that are guaranteed to transfer within the SUNY System.

Tools for campus personnel

Campus personnel advising students require a more sophisticated set of tools to be able to identify the courses that are guaranteed to transfer within their own campus and from all other campuses. 

An Excel worksheet of all approved SUNY-GER courses at all campuses is available for download.  This worksheet provides users with the ability to filter and/or sort on a variety of data fields such as campus, general education category and date of update. Please contact campus General Education Campus Representatives for detailed information about a particular campus's general education program.

The Business Intelligence (BI) Dashboard for Student Transfer Mobility provides a mechanism for authorized campus staff to identify individual campus courses within specific disciplines.

You may login to the Student Transfer Mobility Dashboard with your campus user name and password. For assistance with the Student Transfer Mobility Dashboard, please contact the SLN HelpDesk by phone 800-875-6269 or by email.

Procedure to submit changes to campuses courses within the Major

Additions, modifications and deletions of campus course information contained in these systems must be vetted through an appropriate oversight process on the campus.  Once that process is complete, a message confirming the change from an appropriate academic administrator (e.g. a Dean or higher) may be sent from a campus email system to mobilitywebsite@sysadm.suny.edu.  The message should include contact information including a telephone number and e-mail address.  Provost office personnel will contact that administrator to verify the change prior to modifying the system.

SUNY Course Transfer Appeal Resources and Information

Student Mobility Steering Committee  
The Student Mobility Steering Committee has broad responsibilities including oversight of the campus transfer appeal process.  The Committee is in the process of articulating the process for appeal of transfer decisions by campus personnel.  The processes will be posted to this page once completed. 

Until those processes are established, please contact mobilitywebsite@sysadm.suny.edu with any Transfer Appeal requests.

Student Appeal Process
The student appeal process is available for students who do not agree with a decision related to the conferring or placement of transfer credit for by their current SUNY college for credit earned at a prior SUNY institution.

Campus Transfer Appeal Process
The campus transfer appeal process is designed to facilitate the seamless transfer between SUNY campuses for courses normally taught in the first and second year at 4-year institutions.