Transcript Code Explanation

Transfer credit codes for Cornell College are explained for the convenience of students, faculty, alumni, and officials from other institutions. For a full explanation of Cornell College transcripts, refer to our Explanation of Transcripts guide (also printed with official transcripts.)

General Transfer Courses (those not equivalent to a particular Cornell course), are numbered to designate which general education distribution requirement they meet as well as the course level (100, 200, 300).

 Generic transfer course numbers are three-number codes (011).

The first number is a 0 (zero). 
The second number is the course level (1=100, 2=200, 3=300). 
The third number designates the general education distribution requirement that is met by the course as follows

• 0 = Fine Arts
• 1 = Humanities
• 2 = Mathematics and Quantitative Reasoning (for Ingenuity curriculum starting Fall 2020)
• 3 = Laboratory Science
• 4 = Science (non-lab)
• 5 = Social Science
• 6 = Writing course (fulfills First Year Writing Seminar requirement)
• 7 = none (general credit counting towards the required 31 credits to graduate)
• 9 = FLA/Language

Generic transfer courses that meet Ingenuity Core Curriculum requirements will list the relevant requirement in the course code.

• IE: Intercultural Literacy Encounter
• QE: Quantitative Encounter
• QI: Quantitative Reasoning Intensive
• WE: Writing Encounter
• WI: Writing Intensive
• II: Intercultural Literacy Intensive