This transfer course database is intended as a tool to help undergraduates review courses that have been previously evaluated by Tufts faculty for undergraduate Tufts’ course equivalency from both external institutions and Tufts Abroad Programs. Current students should review Tufts Transfer Credit policies and discuss their plans with an academic advisor prior to registering for the course. All Tufts students must complete the formal transfer credit process by entering courses in SIS and submitting official transcripts. Courses cannot be used in fulfillment of degree requirements until after they have been evaluated and posted to a student’s Tufts transcript. In some cases a petition may be required for Tufts students to use the course towards a specific degree requirement.
Tufts’ academic departments must approve all of their courses that appear in this database. The following departments currently have courses included in this database: Anthropology, Chemistry, Civil & Environmental Eng, Earth and Ocean Sciences, English, History, History of Art, Intern.Literary&Visual Studies, Italian, Japanese, Mechanical Engineering, Political Science, and Psychology. Please be advised while searching that the respective department might not have any courses in the database at this time, which might result in a null search result: this does not necessarily mean that your prospective transfer course will not be accepted for transfer credit. You should still submit your prospective transfer course for evaluation in SIS as part of the Transfer of Credit process. We hope to have more departments eventually included in this database.
If a course is not in the transfer course database, that does not mean that it will not be acceptable for transfer credit. It is possible that the course has not been previously evaluated by Tufts faculty or the Tufts’ department elected to not display data in this database.
Please note that this database is dynamic; we are constantly updating course equivalency data and the data reflected does not guarantee the same Tufts’ equivalency will be assigned when your request is evaluated. While these data are as accurate and current as possible, Tufts retains the right to re-inspect any evaluation for which new information comes to light. Some course evaluations are noted as term-sensitive with start and end terms listed to indicate a change in how Tufts accepts the course for transfer.
Below is a glossary of terms that may appear in the database search results:
Non-Major Credit: If there is no Tufts equivalent for a course, it may be approved by a department or program but cannot be used in fulfillment of the major requirements for that department or program. These courses may be used toward other degree requirements.
Lower-Level Elective Credit: If there is no Tufts equivalent for a course, it may be approved by a department or program to be used as a lower-level elective toward the major requirements for that department or program. If the student is not pursuing that major, the course may be used toward other degree requirements.
Upper-Level Elective Credit: If there is no Tufts equivalent for a course, it may be approved by a department or program to be used as an upper-level elective toward the major requirements for that department or program. If the student is not pursing that major, the course may be used toward other degree requirements.
