Undergraduate Transfers

Transfers for General and Organic Chemistry

Course credit from other institutions may be eligible for transfer as UGA CHEM credit if the course meets the criteria listed below. If CHEM courses are not listed for a given institution on the transfer equivalency site, transfer students should submit the syllabi for their courses to the transfer credit approval form for evaluation, and the course will be reviewed based on the following criteria.

General Criteria
  • The transfer courses must match or exceed the number of credit hours of the corresponding UGA course.
  • Students who have only taken lecture but no lab at a prior institution may be able to register for the corresponding lab at the University of Georgia. Students who took lab but not lecture at a prior institution will not be able to register for only lecture.
  • Online labs will not be accepted as equivalent - lab work must have been done in person. 
  • The course must cover similar content to the UGA course, as demonstrated by the syllabus and schedule of experiments. Please ensure the syllabi you submit includes a schedule of topics for lecture courses, and a schedule of experiments for lab courses.*

    *Transfer credit deemed insufficient by the department can be challenged by the transfer student by taking and passing the standardized American Chemical Society (ACS) exam for the given course. For example, if the department deems a general chemistry class as inequivalent to CHEM 1211 General Chemistry I, the student has the opportunity to take the ACS exam to receive credit.

When filling out this form please indicate how you would like your transfer credits to be utilized:

  • To satisfy Area II Physical Science credit
  • To satisfy major requirements and/or satisfy pre-requisite requirements

Please direct any upper level Chemistry transfer questions to the Undergraduate Coordinator.

Please feel free to send questions to the Undergraduate Chemistry Administrator.