Special Conditions And Specific Requirements

Courses transferred in from other institutions can be used to fulfill Major Requirements at Boston College. Some courses for individual majors must be taken at Boston College, regardless of whether or not they were taken at a previous institution. Students should refer to the individual department sites for more information about specific requirements. In most instances, courses are evaluated first by the Office of Transfer Admission to determine their admissibility under Boston College's credit evaluation system. Acceptable courses that could potentially be used to fulfill major requirements generally must be evaluated ("slotted") by individual departments. This process takes place after admission, and continues throughout a student's advising period. Students who matriculate to Boston College should arrange to provide course descriptions and/or course syllabi to the Office of Transfer Admission and/or individual academic departments if requested to do so. This will enable administrative staff and faculty to make fair and timely decisions, thus making one's transition to Boston College that much smoother.

The College of Arts & Sciences

Students in the College of Arts & Sciences must complete 32 of 38 courses in liberal arts areas.
The admission committee discourages applications from students who have completed more than one year of college elsewhere and are interested in pursuing the Pre-medical/Pre-dental program at Boston College. It is very difficult to transfer into this program as a junior. The Premedical/Pre-dental Committee normally requires that at least half of the required courses for entrance into medical school should be completed at BC. Students who have tried to meet this requirement, while also fulfilling liberal arts core and their major requirements, have experienced serious difficulty in the past. Hence, the Office of Transfer Admissions will not normally accept students into this program after their sophomore year.

There is a foreign language requirement for College of Arts & Sciences students.

Founded in 1863, the College of Arts and Sciences offers a broad-based, liberal arts education in the Jesuit tradition. Major concentrations are focused in the Humanities, the Fine and Performing Arts, and the Social and Natural Sciences.

The Carroll School of Management

The Carroll School of Management is accredited by AACSB International (The Association of Advanced Collegiate Schools of Business). Students from sending institutions which do not hold the same professional accreditation may only transfer Accounting I and II, Macro and Micro Economic Principles, Business Law I, Statistics I, and Computer Science.
There is a foreign language requirement for Carroll School of Management students.

The Carroll School of Management provides undergraduate and graduate management education attuned to the needs of today's global business environment.

The Connell School of Nursing

Candidates for the Connell School of Nursing should have completed Anatomy and Physiology I and II and General Chemistry prior to applying.
Transferred courses may be used to fulfill Boston College Core Requirements, the pre-nursing sciences (including Microbiology) and up to three electives.
Courses in the nursing major, including clinical components, may not be transferred.
Applicants are urged to discuss the curriculum with a Connell School of Nursing faculty advisor.
Appointments may be scheduled by calling 617-552-4250.

Founded at the behest of Cardinal Cushing who believed nurses should be educated in a Jesuit institution, the Connell School of Nursing furthers this vision by offering undergraduate, master's, doctoral, and continuing education programs rooted in an ethical perspective.

The Lynch School of Education

Lynch School of Education students complement their certification with an interdisciplinary major in the College of Arts & Sciences.
Students seeking double majors may be required to spend an extra semester to complete student teaching and state certification requirements in both fields.

Boston College's Lynch School of Education endeavors to improve the human condition through education. We pursue this goal through excellence and ethics in teaching, research, and service.