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How to Seek Transfer Credit

Requests for MIT transfer credit include the following elements:

1. An official transcript sent directly from the institution where you studied to:

MIT Transfer Credit Staff
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 7-103
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA.

or sent digitally to ap@mit.edu

Please note: If you submitted an official college transcript to MIT Admissions, please contact ap@mit.edu so that a copy can be requested on your behalf.  No credit can be granted for courses listed only on a high school transcript, even if they were taken in a college or university, or courses documented only by a letter from an instructor or school official.

2. A course description and syllabus from each course for which you are seeking credit.

3. A separate Request for Additional Credit Form for each MIT department in which you are seeking credit. (Please use the custom form linked here, not the one posted on the Registrar’s website.) Fill in all blanks except the last three in each row.

4. Additional supporting materials in certain departments: 

  • Chemistry: Transcript, syllabus, and list of lecture topics (if not on the syllabus).
  • Mathematics: The author, title, and edition of the textbook used, and the sections of it covered by the course. (You may be asked for a photocopy of the table of contents as well.)
  • Physics: Students must also “validate” their transfer credit by passing the 8.01 or 8.02 Advanced Standing Exam. Validating transfer credit for other Physics subjects are not required for transfer credit for subjects beyond 8.02.
  • Other materials as requested by the Transfer Credit Examiner.

Once you’ve requested a transcript and gathered the materials listed above, send them to MIT as follows.

Transfer credit approved over the summer appears in your Online Advising Folder, which becomes available in mid-August. The Registrar will begin applying approved credit to your official record after Add Date (fifth week of term) and will most likely be uploaded by final exam period.

To Submit Transfer Credit Requests For Other Departments:

For credit in other departments:

  1. Contact the appropriate Transfer Credit Examiner to review your materials. Some will do so in a face-to-face meeting; others will ask you to deliver the hard-copy materials to them.
  2. Return all signed Request for Additional Credit forms to Transfer Credit Staff in Room 7-103 or via email to ap@mit.edu. We will tentatively record your pending credit and relay it to the Registrar’s Office for posting.

For more information, address questions to ap@mit.edu.