General Education Requirements for Transfer Students

Please read the following carefully:

• Students who have an Associate of Arts or an Associate of Science degree from a regionally-accredited institution may be deemed as having satisfied the General Education portion of the University Studies requirements at Utah State University.
• Students who have a Letter of General Education Completion from a regionally-accredited institution may be deemed as having satisfied the General Education portion of the University Studies requirements at USU.
• USU will require students to satisfy the following if an equivalent has not been completed as part of the transfer General Education: Breadth American Institutions (BAI), Communications Literacy (CL1 and CL2), and Quantitative Literacy (QL) . 
• In order to graduate with a bachelor’s degree, the Depth Education requirements must still be completed.
• Students who transfer to USU without either an Associate Degree or a Letter of General Education Completion will have courses evaluated by USU’s Transfer Articulation team. Equivalent General Education courses taken at a regionally-accredited institution may be accepted toward satisfying General Education requirements at USU.
• Schools within the Utah System of Higher Education (USHE)* maintain an agreement allowing General Education courses to be transferred within the system.

*Utah System of Higher Education (USHE)

• University of Utah
• Utah State University
• Weber State University
• Southern Utah University
• Snow College
• Dixie State University
• Utah Valley University
• Salt Lake Community College

For more information about transferring credits to USU, click here.