We do not have a separate procedure for transferring into our graduate programs. An applicant must apply for admission into one of our programs in a usual way. However, if admitted, an applicant might be able to transfer graduate credits from another school subject to the following rules:

• Only credits for bona fide graduate courses can be transferred.
• No more than 9 credits of graduate courses can be transferred.
• In order to be counted towards graduation, the credits must be evaluated by one of our faculty members. The evaluation must establish an equivalence between a course being transferred from another institution to a Computer Science course in Stony Brook, which is accepted as part of the graduation requirements (see the Graduate Program Handbook). The faculty member must be one of those who is teaching the corresponding graduate course on a regular basis.
• Graduate courses that do not meet the previous requirement can be transferred without being counted towards graduation. This can sometimes be useful because students who have earned 24 graduate credits of any kind need to be registered for only 9 credits (instead of 12) in order to have full status. Therefore, gaining this status early might reduce tuition liability.

The Transfer Credit Request form can be downloaded here.