Registrar’s Office

Student Information

Please read page 3 prior to completing this request.

Last Name: / First Name: / Middle Initial: / ID #:
Email Address: / Contact Phone #: / Major:
Student’s Address: / City: / State:

Supply all of the required information for each field.

Request Information

Name of Host Institution: / CEEB Code: / Calendar System (Semester, Quarter, Other):
City: / State: / Accreditation:
Term I am planning to take the course/s Fall Winter Spring Summer Year:
Are you requesting for a Consortium Agreement *? Yes No
*Consortium Agreementis an agreement with the host school that permits the combination of hours from your home and host schools to establish federal aid eligibility (student loans and grants).
Transfer Institution Course / Liberty Course Requested / Evaluation Results
Official use only
Course Code
Ex: ENG 111 / Transfer Course Title
Ex: Composition I / Cr hrs. / Course Code
Ex: ENGL 101 / L.U. Course Title
Ex: Composition and Rhetoric / Cr hrs. / Department Chair or R.O.
(depends on the course) / Engr. Chair
(Technical Elective
course only)

Supply all the required information for thefirst four columns.An incomplete form will not be processed.

Student Signature: ______Date:

For Official Use only

R.O. Transfer Credential Evaluator: Date:

Comments (if any):

Transient Approval Guidelines

(Read carefully before submitting a request)

General Education courses:

  • Submit Transient Approval forms to the Registrar’s Office for all General Education courses that are not math, science, or engineering courses (See next guideline for exceptions)
  • Submit Transient Approval forms to the Registrar’s Office only for the following math and science General Education courses:
  • MATH 133 and lower level math courses, MATH 201, PHYS 231, and PHYS 232
  • Engineering and Computer Science majors may submit Transient Approval forms to the Chair of Engineering for General Education engineering courses.

Major courses:

  • Submit Transient Approval forms to the department chairperson where the RequiredCourseis housed for major courses. (If Technical Elective course, see next guideline.)

Technical Elective courses (Engineering majors only):

  • Transient Approval forms must be approved by the department chairpersons where both the Major AND the Required Course are housed. Two (2) signatures are required for Technical Electives.

Minor courses:

  • Submit Transient Approval forms to the Registrar’s Office for all minor courses, with the exception of Business Management Information Systems and Computer Science minor courses.
  • Business Management Information Systems and Computer Science minors must submit Transient Approvalforms to the department chairpersons where the minor is housed.

Courses taken at Virginia\North Carolina community colleges:

  • Courses planning to be taken at Virginia and North Carolina community colleges that are included in the ‘Liberty University-Virginia Community College System (VCCS) Equivalency Guide and the ‘Liberty University-North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) Equivalency Guide’, respectively, do not require a transient approval (See next guideline for exceptions)
  • Engineering majors planning to take natural science technical elective courses at a Virginia\North Carolina community college must be approved by theChair of Engineeringand the department chairpersonwherethe technical elective course is housed.
  • No transient approval is needed at all for Computer Science majors to take courses at Virginia\North Carolina community colleges, as long as the course equivalencies are listed in the LU-VCCS and LU-NCCCS Equivalency Guides.

General Instructions

  • Supply all the required information; then follow the guidelines indicated above
  • Provide course syllabus for each course in question
  • Seek the approval of the appropriate Approver (see table below)
  • Submit the completed request to the Registrar’s
  • Expect an evaluation results sent through email. (Give ample time for research.)

Approvers

Engineering: Dr. Carl Pettiford, Chair,

Computational Sciences: Dr. Jerry Westfall, Chair,

Mathematics: Prof. Robert Young, Chair,

Physics: Prof. Robert Young, Chair,

Biology: Dr. David DeWitt, Chair,

Chemistry: Dr. David DeWitt, Chair, (or designee)

Business Management Information Systems: Dr. Michael Hart, Chair,

Government: Dr. Stephen Parke, Associate Dean,

Aeronautics: Col. John Marselus, Associate Dean,