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Transfer Admissions

Whether you are transferring from another University of Minnesota college or from an outside school, you have a home here at CEHD.

Preparing to transfer to a CEHD major involves four main steps: exploring and choosing a major, meeting admission requirements, learning how your credits will transfer, and applying.

Review Admission Requirements

CEHD admits transfer students into specific majors.  All students are considered for admission based on an individual review of their application using the primary and secondary review factors listed below, in addition to the criteria described in the next section that is specific to the program students are applying to. These criteria include the specific prerequisite course and credit requirements for the individual program. Before applying, all students must meet the minimum admission requirements. However, meeting minimum prerequisite course, credit levels, and GPA requirements does not guarantee admission to a major. A variety of selection criteria are used to determine admission, including but not limited to, overall GPA, number of credits completed, and success in key courses.

Primary Review Factors

  • Grade point average—cumulative, and in specific courses related to the student's intended major.
  • An especially challenging pattern of coursework, especially in courses related to the student's intended major.

Secondary Review Factors

  • Evidence of exceptional achievement, aptitude, or personal accomplishment not reflected in the academic record.
  • A pattern of steady improvement in academic performance.
  • Participation in extracurricular programs related to your intended major.
  • Non-academic experience in a field related to your intended major.
  • Evidence of exceptional talent or ability in artistic, scholarly, leadership, or athletic performance.
  • Evidence that enrollment would enhance the cultural, gender, age, economic, racial, or geographic diversity of the student body.
  • Outstanding high school, college, or community involvement.
  • Military service.
  • Work experience, paid or unpaid.
  • Evidence of having overcome social, economic, or physical barriers to educational achievement.
  • Extenuating circumstances.

Admission Requirements by Major

Note: All prerequisites for CEHD majors and CEHD major courses must be completed for a letter grade. A grade of C- or higher must be earned for all courses required for admission to the major and for coursework in the major. In cases where courses are recommended but not required, strong applicants will have earned at least a C- for those recommended courses.

Business and Marketing Education

  • 30 credits completed or in progress
    • Students from outside of the U of M Twin Cities campus with fewer than 26 completed and transferable credits will be required to submit high school transcripts and ACT or SAT scores for review.
  • 2.0 minimum cumulative GPA

Although not required prior to admission, strong applicants will have the following coursework completed or in progress:

  • Public speaking
  • Economics
  • Math
  • General psychology

Early Childhood Foundations

  • 2.5 minimum cumulative GPA (2.8 cumulative GPA strongly preferred)
  • 45 credits completed or in progress at the time of application
  • At least 60 hours of paid or unpaid experience working with young children. This may include mentoring, tutoring, camp counseling, babysitting, or nannying.
  • The following courses must be completed or in progress:
    • General psychology
    • Child psychology

Although not required prior to admission, strong applicants will have the following coursework completed or in progress:

  • First-year writing
  • Literature course
  • College algebra
  • Biology with lab (must be general biology)
  • Physical Science with lab (strongly prefer PHYS 3071w or PSTL 1163 at
    the U of M)
  • Earth science with lab (astronomy or physical geology)
  • History course (must fulfill historical perspective liberal education requirement)
  • Social Science elective (strongly prefer PSTL 1204 at the U of M)
  • Human Geography

Elementary Education

  • 2.5 minimum cumulative GPA (2.8 cumulative GPA strongly preferred)
  • Experience with diverse populations
  • 35 hours of classroom experience in a K-6 public or charter school during regular school hours. These hours need to be complete (not in progress) before applying.
    • Experience in the following settings will not satisfy this requirements: private schools, summer session, before or after school programs.
    • Classroom experiences prior to high school graduation will not satisfy this requirement.
  • 35 hours of additional work with children ages K-6. These experiences can include camp counseling, before/after school programs, tutoring, or additional classroom hours and are not required to be completed after high school graduation.

All courses listed below completed or in progress:

  • General psychology
  • Intro to elementary schools
  • First-year writing
  • Literature course (must fulfill literature liberal education requirement)
  • College algebra
  • Biology with lab (must be general biology)
  • Earth science with lab (must be astronomy or physical geology)
  • History course (must fulfill historical perspective liberal education requirement)
  • Social science (prefer PSTL 1204, but will accept cultural anthropology or political science)

Family Social Science

  • No minimum credit requirement. Students from outside of the U of M -Twin Cities campus with fewer than 26 completed and transferable credits will be required to submit high school transcripts and ACT or SAT scores for review.
  • 2.0 minimum cumulative GPA

Although not required prior to admission, strong applicants will have the following coursework completed or in progress:

  • Public speaking
  • Economics
  • Statistics

Human Resource Development

  • 60 credits completed or in progress
  • 2.5 minimum cumulative GPA

Although not required prior to admission, strong applicants will have the following coursework completed or in progress:

  • Public speaking
  • Economics
  • Math
  • General psychology

Kinesiology

  • 60 credits completed or in progress
  • 2.5 minimum cumulative GPA (Given the large number of applicants, the strongest candidates will have a GPA of 3.0 or above at the time of application.)

Required coursework for U of M-Twin Cities students

4 of the 5 following courses completed:

  • Biology with lab
  • Chemistry with lab
  • Physics with lab
  • Survey of kinesiology, recreation, and sport (KIN 1871)
  • Anatomy (must be at the upper level)

Required coursework for students outside the U of M – Twin Cities

All three of the following science courses completed:

  • Biology with lab
  • Chemistry with lab
  • Physics with lab

Although not required prior to admission, strong applicants will have the following coursework completed or in progress:

  • Public speaking
  • Math
  • General psychology

Recreation, Park, and Leisure Studies

  • 30 credits completed or in progress
    • Students from outside of the U of M - Twin Cities campus with fewer than 26 completed and transferable credits will be required to submit high school transcripts and ACT or SAT scores for review.
  • 2.0 minimum cumulative GPA

Although not required prior to admission, strong applicants will have the following coursework completed or in progress:

  • Public speaking
  • Introduction to sociology
  • General psychology

Sport Management

  • 2.0 minimum cumulative GPA (2.75 cumulative GPA is strongly preferred)
  • 60 credits completed or in progress

Required coursework for U of M-Twin Cities students

The following courses must be completed or in progress:

  • Survey of kinesiology, recreation, and sport (KIN 1871)
  • Introduction to sport management (SMGT 1701)
  • Computer literacy and problem solving (PSTL 1571)

All Students

Although not required prior to admission, strong applicants will have the following coursework completed or in progress:

  • Introduction to sociology
  • General psychology
  • Public speaking
  • Most liberal education requirements (generals)

Youth Studies

  • No minimum credit requirement. Students from outside of the U of M Twin Cities campus with fewer than 26 completed and transferable credits will be required to submit high school transcripts and ACT or SAT scores for review.
  • 2.0 minimum cumulative GPA
  • Experience with youth

Although not required prior to admission, strong applicants will have the following coursework completed or in progress:

  • Public speaking
  • Introduction to sociology
  • Social science elective (psychology, anthropology, political science, etc.)
  • Statistics
  • YOST 1001 - Seeing Youth, Thinking Youth (for U of M students only)

CEHD does not admit transfer students outside of specific majors. We advise students to stay at their current college and complete the admission requirements before applying to transfer.

Review the information under the transferring credit tab to find out which courses at your college will transfer.

Transferring Credits

Find out what classes to take at your current school to be on track for admission and graduation:

  • Community college transfer guides
  • Review u.select to see how courses from other institutions will transfer to the U of M and satisfy liberal education requirements. U.select instructions
    • Open the u.select website: www.transfer.org
    • Select "Equivalencies by School".  
    • Select "University of Minnesota-Twin Cities."
    • Select "Minnesota" from the drop down list.
    • Select "University of Minnesota - Twin Cities."
    • Select the state of your current school.
    • Check the "Add" box next to your school (or schools) and click the "Add Schools" button.
    • Select the "Create Guide" button.
    • Choose the course header (i.e. Biol, Econ) you want to look up.
    • Scroll down page.
    • Equivalent course and liberal education categories met appear in the University of Minnesota column.
    • See Glossary at bottom of page for definition guide.  
  • Office of Admissions transfer guide
  • Transferring major-specific courses
    • If you have taken courses which you intend to transfer in as major courses, those will need to be evaluated after admission. Transfer course evaluation form [Word]

Apply

Application Deadlines

Fall semester: March 1

Spring semester: October 1

Applications must be submitted by these deadlines to be given full consideration for admission. If you would like information about accommodations for a disability in the admission process, please contact CEHD Student Services, cehdinfo@umn.edu or 612-625-3339.

All applications received after these deadlines will be reviewed on a space-available basis. Most majors fill with applications received by the application deadlines. Any applications received after July 1 for fall consideration and December 1 for spring consideration will not be reviewed.

How to Apply

The application process to CEHD majors is different depending on where you are transferring from:

U of M Students

  • (Students from Duluth, Crookston, Morris, Rochester, and Twin Cities campuses, including those who are currently or have been previously enrolled)

Submit all application materials to cehdtrfr@umn.edu.

  1. Submit a CEHD application supplement. [Word]
  2. Submit a personal statement. Instructions for writing the statement are on the CEHD application supplement form. (For help, see tips for writing your personal statement [PDF].)
  3. Submit additional required materials for the following majors:
    • Early childhood education foundations: complete the verification of volunteer hours form [Word]
    • Elementary education foundations: complete the verification of volunteer classroom hours form [Word] and the additional related experience form [Word]
      • Note: For each verification of volunteer classroom hours form you submit, the supervising teacher will need to submit an online evaluation form to CEHD Student Services. Please send your supervising teacher an email with a link to this form: https://z.umn.edu/studenteval
    • Sport management: complete the sport-related experience and activities form [PDF] [Word]
  4. Complete an undergraduate change of college form and submit to One Stop. Note: If you are already in CEHD, you do not need to submit the change of college form to One Stop.

Students from Outside of the U

  1. Complete a University of Minnesota transfer application.
  2. Submit a transfer admission application supplement [Word]
  3. Submit a personal statement. Instructions for writing the statement are on the transfer admission application supplement form. (For help, see tips for writing your personal statement [PDF].)
  4. Only for the following majors, submit additional required materials:
    • Early childhood education foundations: complete the verification of volunteer hours form [Word]
    • Elementary education foundations: complete the verification of volunteer classroom hours form [Word] and the additional related experience form [Word]
      • Note: For each verification of volunteer classroom hours form you submit, the supervising teacher will need to submit an online evaluation form to CEHD Student Services. Please send your supervising teacher an email with a link to this form: https://z.umn.edu/studenteval
    • Sport management: complete the sport-related experience and activities form [PDF]

What to Expect after You've Applied

Applications received by the priority deadline:

  • Review of applications will begin shortly after the priority deadline.
  • You will receive an admission decision by email. For spring admission, you will be notified no later than mid-November; for fall admission, no later than mid-April.

Application received after the priority deadline:

  • Applications are reviewed on a rolling, space-available basis. Please note that many majors will fill by the priority deadline.
  • You will receive an admission decision by email no later than one week after the final deadline.

After You're Admitted

Once admitted, you will receive detailed information on orientation and other steps required before you start your first semester. More information for admitted students »

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Contact

Owen Marciano
CEHD Student Services
360 Education Sciences Building
612-625-3339
ohmarciano@umn.edu



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