Transfer Agreements & Guarantees

Current CSU Transfer Guides

If you are attending a Colorado Community or Junior College and you are interested in transferring to Colorado State University, these guides will provide information on what courses you should take towards your Associates Degree. The courses listed in the guides use the course titles and numbers from the Colorado Community College system.

If you complete an Associate of Arts or Associate of Science degree and follow the Transfer Guide coursework recommendations exactly as written, you will be guaranteed only 60 credits of coursework remains towards completion of your CSU Bachelor’s degree. This is called a 60 + 60 transfer plan.

Planning Guides

These guides provide an agreement that identifies community college courses that will apply to the baccalaureate degree but may not meet a 60+60 guarantee in degree completion.

Statewide Agreements in Colorado

The purpose of a statewide transfer articulation agreement is to identify the courses a student at a Colorado public community college must complete as part of an Associate of Arts or Associate of Science degree to be guaranteed to be able to complete a Bachelor’s degree program at any public four-year college or university that offers Bachelor degree programs. More information can be found on the Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) website.

CSU Specific Statewide Agreements

Transfer Guide Archive Information

Curricular innovations occasionally require updates to the listed courses in Transfer Guides. When that occurs, Transfer Guides that were previously published but are no longer in effect are moved to this Archive. Outdated Transfer Guides that have been moved to this Archive will continue to be honored for two calendar years after their end date.

All end dates for a Transfer Guide will be in the summer semester. The two-year period for which guides will be honored includes students that start in the fall semester after the two years has elapsed. (i.e. A guide that ended in Summer 2010 would have been honored for students that started their first course at CSU by the Fall 2012 semester).

Students must transfer with an AA/AS completed at a Colorado Community College and have completed all the coursework identified on the guide in order for the guarantee of a minimum number of credits for completion of the degree program to be honored.

Students who have been following an outdated Transfer Guide and begin courses at CSU after the two-year period has elapsed will not be guaranteed that they can finish that major in the minimum number of credits established for the program. For questions or concerns, email the Degree and Transfer Evaluation unit.

Transfer Guide Archive