The total number of hours that may be transferred for use toward the Ph.D. degree is 20 semester credit hours. Transfer of credit from other universities must meet the following criteria:

• The course must be graduate level.
 
• The grade must be a B or better.
 
• The work must have been completed within the past five years or validated by special examination/evaluation.
 
• The student must have at least a 3.00 GPA in the AHS (Analytical Health Sciences)/Bioinformatics program after completing at least 10 credit hours of AHS required or elective courses.
 
• While students in the program can transfer/apply up to 20 semester hours of prior graduate-level course work to the AHS Ph.D. degree, the credits cannot all be within the same discipline.

The general distribution of prior course work/course credits that is acceptable to the program director:

• Biology: 1 to 7 semester hours
 
• Mathematics/Statistics: 1 to 7 semester hours
 
• Computer Science: 1 to 7 semester hours

No graduate credits earned outside the U.S. by foreign students can be transferred into the program. Some exemptions for Canadian degrees will be granted upon the approval of the Dean of the Graduate School.

The request for transfer must be made on a dedicated form obtained from the Graduate School Office or from the Web at http://www.uchsc.edu/gs/gs/student_services.htm. This form must be completed by the student, endorsed by the adviser and the Program Director, and subsequently submitted to the Graduate School along with official transcripts documenting successful completion of each course proposed for transfer. While it is advisable to review and get tentative approval from the Program Director for all prior academic work to be applied to the Ph.D. degree, students are encouraged to wait until they successfully complete the Preliminary Examination to submit the authorized list of transferable courses/credits to the UC Denver Graduate School.