Transfer Admissions

On your Georgia Southern application, you should simply select “Transfer Student.” These three descriptors are only used as internal ways to evaluate your application for admission based on how many hours you have completed or have in progress.

Most schools allow you to send us an electronic PDF of your transcript directly through a third-party vendor. To do this, log into the student portal at your previous institution and submit an electronic request.

You may also contact their Registrar’s Office and inform them that you want a transcript sent to Georgia Southern’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions. This is the recommended method, as it usually arrives the quickest. If this option requires an email address, please use admissions@georgiasouthern.edu.

If your school does not have an electronic option, they should fax your transcript to 912-478-7240 or mail it to:

Georgia Southern University
Office of Undergraduate Admissions
P.O. Box 8024
Statesboro, GA 30460

Yes, please send transcripts from all of your previously attended institutions when applying; official or unofficial transcripts are sufficient for an admissions decision. We cannot evaluate transfer credits listed on a college transcript if you earned them at a different institution.

Should you decide to initially send unofficial transcripts, your official transcripts must be received by the Office of Undergraduate Admissions before you enroll.

Yes, we encourage applicants to submit their official preliminary college transcripts. They also have the option to submit unofficial transcripts for an admissions decision; however, official transcripts must be received by the Office of Undergraduate Admissions before they enroll.

The sooner you send us your official transcripts and receive an admission decision, the more options you will have for classes and financial aid. However, if this is your very first semester, email your current course schedule to transfers@georgiasouthern.edu until you have grades earned at that institution.

Your status check page reflects live data, and documents are added as quickly as possible once they are received. Once your status says “Awaiting Decision,” it is under review by our staff.

Students with more than 30 transferable semester hours, who have been out of high school for more than five years, or who have completed core-level math and English are not required to submit test scores. However, if you do not fall into one of those categories, Georgia Southern may require test scores based on your high school GPA.

If you have earned less than 30 hours, you must submit your final high school transcript.

If you have 30 transferable credit hours, you are not required to live on campus. If you have earned less than 30 credit hours, review the First-Year Live-On-Campus Requirement exemption list.

If you have ever attended college after high school graduation, you must apply as a transfer student, and the University System of Georgia requires us to evaluate all of your attempted transferable hours. Failure to disclose institutions may result in issues while enrolling in Georgia Southern.

If you are not eligible for admission at this time, we have various pathways and options to help you reach your goal of attending Georgia Southern.

We recommend that you focus on completing transferable general education courses. Review Georgia Southern’s Core Curriculum Requirements and Transfer Course Equivalencies to see if the courses you plan to take may transfer over to a similar course at Georgia Southern.

Reference our Transfer Course Equivalencies for assistance. In order to use this tool, select the institution where you plan to take the course, then look under the subject of the corequisite course that you need. Math courses with the “AMAT” attribute should satisfy the requirements for Math and English courses, and the “AENG” attribute should satisfy the requirements for English.