General Education Information for Transfer Students

Students with a Bachelor's Degree:  Students, who have already earned a bachelor's degree, and are enrolling in an additional bachelor's degree program will be waived from all the General Education foundation requirements, including Collaborations and Applications.

Students with an Associate Degree: Students eligible for The Massachusetts Independent College Transfer Guarantee (have an associate of arts or sciences from a Massachusetts community college that is eligible for MassTransfer) or have an AA or AS from any accredited community college, will have met most of the General Education curriculum requirements. All students must take a General Education Applications course and, based on a student’s program and transfer credits, up to 3 additional general education credits. Certain programs in the College of Art & Design have additional Art History requirements.

Transfer students without an associate degree will have equivalent transfer courses applied to the General Education curriculum.

General Education Equivalencies: If a transfer course is equivalent to a Lesley course that meets a General Education Foundation or Perspectives outcome, the transfer course will also be deemed to meet the Lesley General Education outcome. Students wishing to have elective transfer courses (courses without an exact Lesley equivalency) reviewed to meet these general education requirements will complete a request to:

Dr. Sonia Pérez-Villanueva.
Associate Provost of Liberal Arts and Business
Professor of Spanish Studies and Literature in Translation
sperezvi@lesley.edu

Meeting the Applications Course Requirement: All bachelor degree-seeking students (with associate degrees or not) must take a General Education Applications course as part of their Lesley general education program. This requirement may not be waived and no non-Applications course may be substituted for this requirement.