Transfer Student Admission

Transfer Student Admission

1. Students applying for post-freshman admission, have to provide an official Transcript stating they have attended at least one semester as a full-time student at another accredited University, University, or equivalent educational institution and possess a cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 2.0 or above.
2. A student with a CGPA of less than 2.0 can be admitted only to a program in a field different from his/her current field in the previous educational institution.
3. Transfer students from UAE-accredited colleges and universities shall be exempted from the admission criteria because they were already admitted to other colleges/ universities in the UAE and fulfilled admission criteria at the time of initial enrollment. In addition, they will not be required to repeat the EMSAT TOEFL or IELTS if these scores were submitted at the time of the initial admission.
4. Coursework completed in the previous educational institution may be accepted in the appropriate program at CUA by meeting the following provisions:
5. Applicants must submit an official transcript attested by the MoE-HEA showing all credits and grades earned, along with a detailed description of the courses to the Admission Office.
6. Only coursework with a grade of C and above, or its equivalent will be accepted.
7. Only coursework relevant to the study plan of the desired major will be considered.
8. Coursework should bear at least three credit hours; however, two or more can be combined to equal one three-credit hour course.
9. The coursework content must be equal to approximately 75-80% of the CUA course content
10. Only 50% of total credits shall be considered as transfer credits.
11. If the student studied the same course in two different educational institutions, only one of them will be considered.
12. The coursework was not a part of Foundation and/or Intensive English Programs.
13. The Committee of Student Transfer shall review the student’s request for transfer credits and submit its recommendations to the Vice Chancellor for approval.

Notes:

•  Grades of the transfer courses earned at the host institution are not used in calculating the student’s CGPA.
• Students must provide a letter of medium of instruction for any transferred course taught in English.
•  Students shouldn’t have been dismissed from their previous institutions for disciplinary reasons.
• Transfer credit hours will only appear on the CUA transcript when the Registrar receives the official and attested transcript of the student’s previous institution.