Comprehensive Standard #3.6.3 (Graduate residency requirement)
The majority of credits toward a graduate or a post-baccalaureate professional degree is earned through the institution awarding the degree. In the case of graduate and post-baccalaureate professional degree programs offered through joint, cooperative, or consortia arrangements, the student earns a majority of credits from the participating institutions. ( See Commission policy "The Transfer or Transcripting of Academic Credit.")
Compliance Certification
The College of William and Mary is in compliance with this comprehensive standard.
Explanation
The response to Core Requirement 2.7.4 details regulations regarding transfer credit for graduate degrees. That discussion makes clear that graduate and professional programs at William and Mary allow only a very small number of transfer credits.
The policy for Arts and Sciences Graduate Programs, including those in the School of Marine Sciences, is in the 2004-2005 Graduate Arts and Sciences Program Catalog in the section entitled "Transfer of Graduate Credit." The policy allows only up to six transfer credits.
In general, the Business School does not accept transfer credit for the M.B.A. programs. Students enrolled in the full-time MBA program can participate in semester or summer exchange programs and, with permission, can transfer credit (but not grades) into the degree program.
The School of Education Transfer Credit policy specifies that students can transfer a maximum of 12 credits towards master's degrees and a maximum of 15 credits towards doctoral degrees.
The Academic Regulations for the Law School allow a total of six credits of transfer towards the Juris Doctor degree.
The Doctor of Psychology degree requires coursework and supervision as a part of The Virginia Consortium Program in Clinical Psychology (Norfolk State University, Old Dominion University, Eastern Virginia Medical School, and the College of William and Mary). No specific arrangements are made for transfer credits because the "Program is organized as a lock-step curriculum: each semester is prerequisite for the next." The degree requires: The successful completion of three full calendar years of full-time study beyond the baccalaureate and an internship (full-time for one calendar year, or a half-time for two calendar years) with at least two hours per week of formally scheduled individual supervision, and completion of at least 6 semesters and 72 semester hours in residence.