Student Mobility

Information for Students

The SUNY Office of Enrollment Management Services has developed web-based tools which allow transfer students to identify courses that are guaranteed to transfer within the SUNY System.

Information for Campuses

These tools allow campus personnel to identify guaranteed transfer courses in general education and within specific disciplines, contact their colleagues on other campuses, and submit changes to core courses in the major.

Links:

Approved SUNY-GER Courses.   This excel 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.

Student mobility dashboard:  The dashboard provides a mechanism for authorized campus staff to identify individual campus courses within specific disciplines. You may login to the 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.

SUNY Transfer Paths: The Transfer Paths summarize the common lower division requirements shared by all SUNY campuses for similar majors within most disciplines.  These courses are guaranteed to transfer across the SUNY system within each discipline.

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 the Student Mobility Project Coordinator.  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

Campus contacts:

General Education Campus Representatives .   Can provide detailed information about a particular campus's general education program.

Transfer admissions contacts. A list of campus transfer admissions contacts maintained by the Office of Enrollment Management.

The Student Mobility Steering Committee makes recommendations to the SUNY Provost on all matters concerning the ability of students to transfer from one campus to another within SUNY as prescribed by SUNY Board of Trustees Policy.

Data

View and download data on student mobility patterns across the SUNY system.

Policies

View and download SUNY policy documents that guarantee the transfer of credits for general education courses and courses taken in the first two years in the most frequently transferred majors. 

Seamless Transfer Requirements Resolution 2012  

Trustee Resolution 2009-138

Memorandum to Presidents 2010-1

Memorandum to Presidents 2011-01

General Education Information

Student Appeals Process

Learn how to submit campus or student appeals for courses or transfer credit.

Campus Appeals Process:
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 Robert Kraushaar (Robert.Kraushaar@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.

Mobility Initiatives

• Transfer Paths. The SUNY Transfer Paths summarize the common lower division requirements shared by all SUNY campuses for similar majors within most disciplines. The Transfer Paths help students to identify core coursework in their majors that will transfer to multiple SUNY campuses. Transfer Paths have been created for the most common transfer disciplines. New disciplines will be added as they become available.

• Expanding Core Course Access: While the SUNY Transfer Paths identify the common lower division requirements within academic disciplines, not all campuses may offer these particular courses. This effort aims to expand access to core courses in the major by building a building a search function into the core course finder that will find comparable courses in the SUNY Learning Network. Students will then be able to take core courses online, if they are not available at their campus.