Guaranteed Transferability

In collaboration with the four-year public institutions and the Department, the Colorado Community College System has designed and implemented 28 associate degrees with designations, thus allowing seamless transfer within the majors identified by the designations to any Colorado public four-year institution that offers a comparable baccalaureate degree program in the major field.  

Associate of Arts Degree and Associate of Science Degree to Colorado Public Four-Year Colleges and Universities.

Colorado's agreement between public colleges and universities guarantees that when a student completes an A.A. or A.S. Degree -- at least 60 semester credit hours of coursework completed with a grade of "C" or better in every course -- a student may transfer to a public baccalaureate program with a Liberal Arts and Sciences designation (e.g., Mathematics, psychology, or history) and graduate after earning an additional 60 semester credit hours.  Courses with an "S/U" grade will not be eligible for Guaranteed Transferability.  While a student is guaranteed not to have to complete more than 60 semester hours to graduate, completing a baccalaureate degree within two years depends on the number of credits a student completes each semester at the four-year institution, course sequencing in the student's major (e.g., some upper-division major courses require that a student first complete lower-division major courses), as well as course availability.

DEGREES WITH DESIGNATION

Associate Degrees with Designations provide transfer pathways to Colorado state four-year colleges and universities in specified liberal arts and science designations.  The CCCS offers degrees with designation in the following areas:

Anthropology - Associate of Arts

Art History - Associate of Arts

Biology - Associate of Science

Business - Associate of Arts

Chemistry - Associate of Science

Communication - Associate of Arts

Criminal Justice - Associate of Arts

Early Childhood Education - Associate of Arts

Economics - Associate of Arts

Elementary Education - Associate of Arts

English - Associate of Arts

Geography - Associate of Science

Geology - Associate of Arts

History - Associate of Arts

Mathematics - Associate of Science

Philosophy - Associate of Arts

Physics- Associate of Science

Political Science - Associate of Arts

Psychology - Associate of Arts and Associate of Science

Sociology - Associate of Arts

Spanish - Associate of Arts

Studio Art- Associate of Arts

Note: Not all courses are available at each of the 13 CCCS colleges but may be transferred from one institution to another and/or the student may elect to earn credit via CCCOnline.

Many other  majors also require that students select specific courses from the gtPathways courses.  Students should contact a transfer advisor at the earliest opportunity to review appropriate transfer guides.  In addition to indicating which lower division courses are required for articulated programs, these guides will indicate to a student which lower division courses are most appropriate for the student's major.  These guides indicate the appropriate prerequisites for sequenced coursework that should be taken before transferring to a four-year college.

The Transfer Policy of the Colorado Department of Higher Education is available at:  http://highered.colorado.gov/Academics/Transfers/Students.html.