Transfer

• General Education Transfer Policy (64K PDF) guarantees that if a student completes an associate (AA or AS) degree at a KCTCS college, any Kentucky public university will accept their general education credits as meeting lower-division general education requirements if their KCTCS transcript is certified.
• Applied Associate Transfer Agreement guarantees that the general education courses students take as part of an applied associate in science (AAS) degree program will transfer and count toward the lower-division general education requirements at the school to which they transfer.
• Statewide Transfer Committee
  The Statewide Transfer Committee addresses current and ongoing policy issues related to transfer.

• Transfer Pipeline, A Policy Brief from the Council on Postsecondary Education, September 2008
• Best Practices in Transfer- Bluegrass Community and Technical College System Transfer Center
• Transfer Information in the Data Portal
• Improving the Transfer Pipeline, Presentation to CPE by Jim Applegate, VP of Academic Affairs, April 2008
• Transfer Update: The Road to 2020, September 2006
• Identifying Barriers to College Student Transfer: Key Findings from the 2004 Community and Technical College Student Survey and Focus Group Results

• The Transfer Handbook (2MB PDF) outlines three steps to transfer and offers resources to help ease the process.
  
• The Kentucky Course Applicability System (KY CAS) is an online transfer planning system shows students what courses to take and how coursework will transfer to participating universities.
  
• KnowHow2GOKy Transfer Section offers lots of transfer resources for students, including checklists, policy information, transfer contacts, and scholarship information.
  
• Online degree programs can help students with an associate degree complete a bachelor's degree online at their convenience.
  

• Statewide Transfer Agreements identify a 60-hour set of coursework that will allow students to transfer a KCTCS associate degree toward a group of related degrees and their requirements at Kentucky’s public universities. 
  • List of Current Transfer Agreements
  • Business Field of Study Frameworks
    • AA Framework (42K PDF)
    • AS Framework (42K PDF)
    • Memorandum of Agreement (17K PDF)