Transferred Courses

The Transferred Courses file collects a cumulative set of postsecondary transfer credit records representing courses accepted and articulated by a receiving institution for the requested academic year(s). Each record reflects a transferred course (or course-level articulation decision) for a student. Students with multiple transferred courses will appear in the file multiple times, once per transferred course.

Submissions will include records beginning with the 2012 academic year through the most recent completed academic year. Data for future academic years will be submitted on an annual basis in alignment with the NSWERS data submission cycle.

This file is limited to postsecondary-to-postsecondary transfer credit. It captures how prior coursework from another institution was evaluated and recorded by the receiving institution, including source institution, source course information (where available), and the resulting articulation (for example, direct equivalency, elective credit, or other outcome).

Note: A Postsecondary Enrollment record must have been previously submitted or included in the same data submission for each student appearing in the Transferred Courses file, or the data loading process will reject the record.