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Transfer Student
Everyone’s welcome at Empire State University. Find everything you need to know about transferring credits, navigating admissions, and finding a home in your new program. Welcome!
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Make Your Experience Count
As a transfer student, you have opportunities to make your prior education and life experience work hard for you at SUNY Empire.
Transferring Made Easy
Where Life Experience Counts
At SUNY Empire, we know that learning happens in so many ways every day. That’s why we award college credits for workplace training, volunteering, online certificates, and more.
Normal Program Length
Prior Education
Your Program Length
Our Promise to You
“We have made an explicit commitment to serve transfer students, and we know what it takes to successfully deliver on the transfer promise.”
- SUNY Empire President Lisa Vollendorf, Inside Higher Ed
90%
Percent of students who arrive with transfer credits.
100%
Percent of lower-division credits we accept.
Find Where You Belong
Transfer Admissions
Undergraduate Studies
Explore programs that resonate with your interests, background, and future plans.
Graduate Studies
Discover a path to your future career with one of our 29 possible graduate degree programs.
As a program manager in the U.S. Army, Harold knew his experience would help him achieve his academic goals. He chose SUNY Empire because he could transfer that experience into credits to jumpstart his education.
