Tools for using the Transfer Guide
The VCU Transfer Guide is designed to assist transfer students with enrolling in recommended courses and completing prerequisites, as well as determining course equivalences and transfer credit. This resource, however, is not a detailed analysis and may exclude some specific major requirements. Students planning to transfer to VCU should refer to the current Undergraduate Bulletin for the specific degree requirements of their intended major. Students also are encouraged refer to the Transfer Center website for specific course recommendations for Virginia Community College System and Richard Bland College students.
Courses that do not appear in the Transfer Guide have not been evaluated and articulated. General education requirements differ according to school; therefore, the type of transfer credit awarded may depend on the school or major program to which the student applies. If a course is equivalent to an upper-level VCU course (300- or 400-level courses), it applies toward the 45 upper-level credits required for graduation at VCU.
VCU course abbreviations
The following is a list of VCU course abbreviations used in this guide.
| ACCT | Accounting | GEOG | Geography |
| AFAM | African American studies | GDES | Graphic design |
| ANTH | Anthropology | GRMN | German |
| APPM | Applied Music | HIST | History |
| ARBC | Arabic | INFO | Information systems |
| ARTH | Art history | ITAL | Italian |
| BIOL | Biology | LATN | Latin |
| BIOZ | Biology lab | MASC | Mass communications |
| CHEM | Chemistry | MATH | Math |
| CHEZ | Chemistry lab | MGMT | Management |
| CHIN | Chinese | PAPR | Painting and printmaking |
| CMSC | Computer science | PHIL | Philosophy |
| CRAF | Craft and material studies | PHYS | Physics |
| CRJS | Criminal justice | PHYZ | Physics lab |
| DANC | Dance | POLI | Political science |
| ECON | Economics | PSYC | Psychology |
| EGRE | Electrical/computer engineering | RELS | Religious studies |
| EGRM | Mechanical engineering | RUSS | Russian |
| ENGL | English | SOCS | Social science |
| ENGR | Engineering | SOCY | Sociology |
| ENVS | Environmental studies | SPAN | Spanish |
| ENVZ | Environmental studies lab | SPCH | Speech |
| FASH | Fashion | STAT | Statistics |
| FREN | French | UNIV | University College |
| FRLG | Foreign language |
