Music Graduate Office

Transfer Credit

How to propose a transfer  ·  Music Bibliography  ·  Languages (grammar requirement)

Students may propose that appropriate courses taken elsewhere be transferred for credit at IU.

Courses to be transferred must have been taken for graduate credit at an accredited institution. Each course to be transferred must be equivalent to a course offered at Indiana University. Transfer is approved by the department in which the equivalent course is offered and by the Director of Graduate Studies. Departmental practices vary; an interview or examination may be required. 

Lessons, chamber music, ensemble, and similar courses may not be transferred, nor may transfer courses satisfy entrance proficiencies in music history and literature or music theory. Review courses may not be transferred. 

It is not possible to transfer a course that has been used to fulfill a requirement of a completed degree.

M.M., M.M.E., and M.S. students may transfer up to 6 credit hours; M.A. and M.A.T. students may transfer up to 8 credit hours.  Doctoral students may transfer up to 30 credit hours. No course may be transferred unless the grade is B or higher.

No transfer of credit is accepted toward the requirements of any diploma program, nor for a doctoral minor in music.

How to propose a transfer

Please make an appointment to speak with the Graduate Academic Advisor if you are considering asking to transfer a course. You will need:

1. Information about the course: when and where you took it, who taught it, and what IU requirement you hope to use it for.  The Graduate Academic Advisor will fill out an appropriate form with you when you meet.
2. A syllabus for the course.
3. All the written work for the course, including quizzes, exams, papers, report outlines and so on.
4. An official transcript showing the course and the grade you received.
    

Music Bibliography

If you have taken Music Bibliography at another university and believe that the course was equivalent to MUS-M 539 Music Bibliography, follow the procedure listed above.  It is possible to have a Bibliography course taken at another institution fulfill the Music Bibliography tool subject requirement at IU even if the course was taken towards a degree requirement of a completed degree.

Languages (grammar requirement)

If your degree requires the grammar of one or more foreign languages, and you took the language(s) in question at another university, you may be able to have that particular language requirement waived.  You will need to submit an official transcript that shows that you took the language for the appropriate number of semesters with grades of "C" or above (please note that a grade of “C-” does not fulfill the requirement). The transcript needs to include the title of the course, the number of credit hours taken, and a grade of "C" or higher. Courses taken for Pass/Fail grades, courses taken as an auditor, or transcripts that do not include the title of the course will not be accepted.  Please make an appointment to speak with the Graduate Academic Advisor if you are considering trying to have a language waived based on work you did at another university. (Note that a formal transfer of credit is not necessary.) Courses taken more than 10 years ago cannot be used.