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What is credit transfer?
Key things to know about credit transfer
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If you’re coming straight from finishing a college qualification in the summer to start a qualification with the OU in October (when most of our modules start), you’ll need to act fast. Our registrations close in early September and you’ll need to complete a credit transfer application by mid-August to have enough time to apply for a module. -
You need to have a copy of your academic transcript and information about your course’s learning outcomes to complete the application, so make sure to ask your college about this before applying. -
You can use study from different qualifications. -
If your college qualification is in a very different subject area to the qualification you want to study with the OU, it is unlikely you will be able to transfer credit as the Credit Transfer team will be looking for overlap between the content that you’ve already studied and the OU qualification. However, any credit transfer application will always include information on the credit you can transfer into the Open degree which is not dependent on the subject area. It’s only dependent on the level of your previous study.
