Transfer Credit Process
Incoming first-year students who completed college-level coursework while still in high school may be eligible to receive college credit for those courses. To begin the transfer process students must provide an official transcript from the previous institution. Only courses completed at a regionally accredited institution with an earned grade of C or higher are eligible for transfer evaluation.
There are two options for sending your official transcript to Lehigh.
1). Electronic transcripts (preferred) must be sent directly from the college or university. Those should be sent to ras@lehigh.edu.
2). Paper transcripts must be sent directly from the college or university. Those should be sent to:
Office of the Registrar
Lehigh University
27 Memorial Drive West
Bethlehem, PA 18015
Additionally, we highly recommend that you provide syllabi for the evaluation process, if available. Many of our academic departments will request a detailed syllabus when reviewing courses to determine equivalency at Lehigh. Syllabi can be emailed to ras@lehigh.edu.
Students can expect college credit to transfer in one of the following ways:
Specific Lehigh course number (ex. PSYC 001): The course materials have been reviewed and the course has been deemed equivalent to a Lehigh course.
099 course number with a department subject code (ex. ART 099): The course may not be a direct match to a Lehigh course OR might not be needed for the student’s planned area of study. The credit is approved to transfer as an elective in a Lehigh discipline and may be assigned a distribution attribute, such as humanities or social science.
UNIV 099: The course is approved to transfer as elective credit toward the degree, but does not meet any other requirements.
No credit awarded: The course is not equivalent to the Lehigh curriculum and is not eligible for transfer credit.
For additional details about transfer credit, please review the Transfer Credit section of the University Catalog.
To see your transfer credit
Please follow the steps below.
- Log in to connect.lehigh.edu and click the “Student Dashboard” link to log into Banner.
- Click the Student Profile button and select the Academic Transcript option in the column on the left.
- Set the Transcript Level to “All Levels” and the Transcript Type to “Advising”. Click submit.
- If your credit has been posted, you will see a list of all transfer credit that has been accepted by Lehigh University at the beginning of the transcript. Credit is transferred with a grade of TR..