Office ofThe Registrar

To assist students, the Registrar’s Office maintains equivalency guides for most Washington Community Colleges and CLEP.  Using the equivalency guides, a student can determine if a course is transferable and if the course can be used to meet a General Education (GenEd) element (individual schools/departments determine which courses satisfy major/minor requirements).

Important things to remember when transferring courses:

• Credits from quarter-hour colleges or universities transfer on a two-thirds equivalency basis.  One quarter hour is equal to .67 semester hours.  For example, a five quarter hour course transfers as 3.33 semester hours.
• Transfer courses must be a minimum of three semester hours to fulfill a PLU GenEd element.  This means that a transfer course that was four quarter hours will not fulfill a GenEd element. 
• The Pacific Lutheran University grade point average reflects PLU work only.  A student's grade point average cannot be improved by repeating a course elsewhere.  If a student wishes to repeat a PLU course for a better grade, the course must be repeated at PLU.