Candidates for the Master's degree must have completed a Bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college with a cumulative G.P.A. of about 3.0 or higher. Applicants are requested to include "sealed" official transcripts of all previous college or university-level records in their Application Packet. Applicants may be asked to provide catalogs containing course descriptions of previous academic work proposed for transfer to Georgetown in partial fulfillment of degree requirements. Students with transcripts from International schools may also be required to submit a third-party evaluation of the degree/transcript before we can examine it. World Education Services or Educational Credential Evaluators, Inc. can provide the evaluation for a fee. Applicants for whom English is a second language must also submit a printed Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) score report. A TOEFL score of 600 is required (250 or higher for the computer-based test or 100 iBT). Please use institution code number 5986.
In keeping with its long-standing tradition and policy, Georgetown University, in admissions, employment, and access to programs, considers students on the basis of individual merit and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national or ethnic origin, disability, or other factors irrelevant to participation in the University.
Transfer of Credit
The School of Continuing Studies (SCS) at Georgetown University offers transfer credit from regionally accredited colleges and universities. Credit for work done at another college or university is granted to each admitted transfer student on an individual basis through an extensive evaluation by the academic department in which the student is admitted.
At the discretion of the academic leadership in SCS, credit is granted for prior graduate work after successful completion of the first semester at SCS. Students may not transfer more than six credits toward a graduate degree. The following guidelines are used to inform the decision about which courses will be accepted for transfer into academic programs in SCS:
- The accreditation of the institution. Only courses from regionally accredited institutions will be considered.
- The grade in the course. Only courses that have an earned grade of B (3.0) or better will be considered.
- The content of the course. Only courses that have content applicable to offerings in the SCS program will be considered.
- Age of the course. In most cases, courses older than 10 years old will not be considered.
In order for credits to be considered for transfer into an SCS program, a final, official transcript from each institution previously attended must be received. Transcripts that are stamped student copy or unofficial copy are not acceptable, even if they are in sealed envelopes.
Upon the satisfactory completion of the student’s first semester, the transfer credits are evaluated and posted to the student’s record and contribute to the required number of credits necessary for degree completion. Transfer credit grades, however, will not appear on the student’s Georgetown transcript and are not considered when calculating the quality point GPA index.
