The Transfer Admission Process
Each year, Carnegie Mellon admits a small number of transfer students, where space permits. The policy for transferring does vary from college to college within Carnegie Mellon; please review this page carefully.
Transfer Deadlines
Application Plan | Application Deadline | Admission Notification Date |
Fall Transfer | Mar 1 | Jun 15 |
Spring Transfer | Oct 15 | Dec 15 or soon after |
Transferring By College
Transfer students will only be considered for one college or program within Carnegie Mellon.CIT, DC, IS, MCS, SCS:
- Fall transfer possible if space is available.
- Spring transfer extremely limited and unlikely.
- No external transfers are accepted into the BXA programs.
Tepper:
- The Tepper School of Business does not accept transfer applications.
Architecture, Art, Design, Drama, Music:
- Only fall transfer is available for fine arts applicants.
- You’ll be considered alongside freshman applicants and are likely to be given first-year status.
- No external transfers are accepted into the BXA programs.
Transfer Applicant Instructions
In addition to our admission requirements, please keep in mind the following:- Transfer applicants will only be considered for one college or program within Carnegie Mellon.
- Transfer applicants must submit a college transcript in addition to a high school transcript, and email a copy of course descriptions from a college catalog from each college/university you attended to undergraduate-admissions@andrew.cmu.edu with the subject line, “Transfer Course Descriptions.”
- A recommendation from a professor or advisor should be submitted in place of a college counselor recommendation.
- Please submit any available SAT Reasoning Test, ACT with Writing, SAT Subject Tests or TOEFL/IELTS scores. Standardized testing is not required of transfer students, though we do prefer to see the TOEFL/IELTS if English is not your native language.
- The college/school to which you are admitted will evaluate your courses for potential transfer credit.
- If you are offered admission for the spring semester, we do not require a tuition deposit due to the short time between offered admission and the start of the spring semester.
- University housing is not guaranteed for transfer students.
