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Engineering and Nursing students discuss 
losing credits after cross-campus transfer

Those changing schools within the University often have to take additional semesters

KRISTINA ZHENG
Daily Staff Reporter

University 
of 
Michigan 
students 
transferring 
between schools or colleges 
on the Ann Arbor campus 
struggle 
to 
bring 
their 
credits with them, leading 
many to take on additional 
semesters 
to 
fulfill 
distribution requirements.
Carmela Brown, associate 
director 
of 
the 
Newnan 
Academic Advising Center, 
detailed 
the 
policies 
for 
students undergoing cross-
campus transfer. Regardless 
of the school or college, 
students are required to 
fulfill 
the 
requirements 
implemented by the school 
or college they transfer into, 
Brown explained in an email 
to The Daily. 
“Each 
academic 
undergraduate 
unit 
determines the requirements 
and policies to uphold the 
integrity of their degree,” 
Brown 
wrote. 
“When 
a 
student moves from one 
unit to another through a 
cross-campus transfer, the 
student is required to follow 
the 
policies 
determined 
by the unit which could be 
different for each school or 
college.”
According to Brown, in the 
Fall 2019 and Winter 2020 
semesters, 
approximately 
120 
students 
transferred 
cross-campus to LSA. Most 
of these students had a 
minimum of 30 credits when 
they transferred since most 
remained in their original 
school or college for a year, 
Brown explained.
LSA 
sophomore 
Tess 
Eschebach transferred from 
the College of Engineering 
to LSA at the end of last 

semester. 
Eschebach 
told 
The Daily her decision to 
transfer to LSA was due to 
the School of Engineering’s 
highly technical curriculum.
“I 
didn’t 
want 
to 
be 
doing technical stuff full-
time,” Eschebach said. “The 
College of Engineering is 
structured in such a way that 
even with flexible technical 
electives that they have in 
the EECS department, it’s 
like you’re still taking all 
technical classes with little 
time to take any humanities. 
I wasn’t really vibing with 
that.”
Engineering 
students 
often take the same courses 
during their first two years, 
including LSA courses like 
Math 115, Chemistry 130 and 
Physics 140 and Engineering 
courses 
like 
Engineering 
100, among others. Many of 
these courses do not transfer 
to 
fulfill 
distribution 
requirements 
in 
LSA, 
according to Eschebach.
“In 
the 
College 
of 
Engineering, your schedule 
is 
basically 
planned 
out 
for you, like from day one,” 
Eschebach said. “I remember 
I was super stressed this 
semester because I could 
take anything. And I was like 
that is so stressful because, 
in Engineering, you literally 
come into Engineering with 
your first years planned 
out. And once your major 
is declared, your next two 
years are planned out … 
And none of that stuff really 
directly translates to LSA 
credit, so I guess that could 
be a big problem as well.”
Brown said Engineering 
students 
generally 
enroll 
in LSA classes in their first 
year to fulfill Engineering 
requirements. Other courses 

taken through the School 
of Engineering would be 
considered non-LSA credits, 
only 20 of which would count 
towards an LSA degree.
“Engineering 
students 
are 
usually 
taking 
LSA 
classes in their first year as 
part of their Engineering 
requirements such as math, 
physics 
and 
chemistry,” 
Brown wrote. “Therefore, 
they usually have not maxed 
out of the non-LSA credits. 
The College does recognize 
the degree requirements and 
competencies required of all 
LSA students which include 
the students who transfer to 
LSA.”
Likewise, 
transferring 
into the School of Nursing 
from LSA requires a set 
of 
prerequisite 
courses 
students must take before 
applying, including English 
125, 
Psychology 
111 
and 
Biological Chemistry 212, 
among others. If students 
choose 
to 
take 
courses 
outside of these prerequisites 
in LSA, the credits earned do 
not transfer to the Nursing 
School.
Nursing sophomore Alissa 
Elanjian 
transferred 
to 
the Nursing School after 
her freshman year in LSA. 
Elanjian 
knew 
from 
the 
start of her freshman year 
she would be applying to the 
Nursing 
School, 
allowing 
her to tailor her LSA courses.
“The Nursing School only 
accepted 30 to 35 transfer 
(students), so I did not have 
a very high chance of getting 
in,” Elanjian said. “So I did 
take a big risk by applying 
because all of my classes in 
freshman year were focused 
towards the Nursing School. 
So if I did not get into the 
Nursing School, the only 

classes that would make 
sense were the Stats 250 that 
I took in LSA and the English 
course I took in LSA.”
Another 
concern 
for 
students transferring from 
the College of Engineering 
is that many of the credits 
they’ve 
accumulated 
through 
Advanced Placement or dual 
enrollment 
credits 
only 
count toward Engineering 
distribution 
requirements. 
They do not apply to LSA 
distribution 
requirements, 
Eschebach explained.
“For 
my 
humanities 
distribution, I was able to 
knock most of it out with AP 
credit, but in LSA, it doesn’t 
count,” Eschebach said. “So, 
like, that’s a difference that 
I know no LSA students are 
getting that credit, but it’s 
really kind of jarring moving 
from Engineering, where it 
was fulfilling distribution 
requirements, and now it’s 
not. And now, I’m stuck in a 
lot of 100 level courses.”
As 
an 
Engineering 
student, Eschebach would 
have been able to graduate 
in three years with her AP 
credits and dual enrollment 
transfer credits. Now in 
LSA, she will most likely 
graduate in five years.
“I’m going to be here a 
while,” Eschebach said. “I 
was just continually pushed 
into doing Engineering, so I 
never really thought about 
doing anything else … it’s 
been a lot exploring for me, 
a lot of confusion in what I 
want to do … I’m sure I’ll 
have extra time just because 
of distribution as well.”
Reporter Kristina Zheng 
can be reached at krizheng@
umich.edu

