Office of the Registrar

Equivalency Guides are updated and maintained by the Office of the Registrar. The date of their last update can be found on the bottom of the individual Equivalency Guides. If you have any questions please email the Office of the Registrar at registrar@plu.edu.

New Transfer of Credit Policy:

The new Transfer of Credit policy has gone into effect beginning Fall 2008. Two key changes for students are as follows:

• Transfer courses must be a minimum of three semester hours to fulfill a PLU four-hour general university requirement (GUR). This means that four-quarter hour courses will not fulfill four-hour GURs as they convert to only 2.67 semester hours.
  
  
• 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.

When transferring courses from an institution that operates on a Quarter Hour system (all Washington Community Colleges, UW, etc) the credits transfer into PLU's Semester Hours system as follows:

Washington State Community Colleges and Portland Community College

General Information

PLU Degree Requirements - 2009-2010

PLU Degree Requirements: 2008-2009

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