Transferring to CU

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Transfer students are admitted directly into the Program in Environmental Design through the University of Colorado Boulder鈥檚 admission process. Since the program has a limited enrollment, all qualified students are not guaranteed admission.

  A college-level GPA of 3.0 or higher is required. Preference is given to students who have taken college-level courses in the areas of architecture, planning or environmental studies.

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Transferring into CU?

Hugo Arreola, Recruitment & Diverse Scholars Coordinator

    futuredesignbuffs@colorado.edu

 

Are you a CU student?

Hugo Arreola, Recruitment & Diverse Scholars Coordinator

    envdiut@colorado.edu

 

Why CU Environmental Design?

  • We offer a unique, interdisciplinary degree program that provides students with experience in environmental product design, architecture, landscape architecture, and sustainable planning & urban design.  
  • We are the largest environmental design program in the nation and offer the only B.EnvD degree in the state of Colorado. 
  • Our ENVD studio courses offer an 18:1 student-to-faculty ratio, so you can easily access your professor and receive one-on-one feedback. 
  • You'll be taught by faculty who hold professional design licenses and practice design outside the classroom every day. 

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Students Transferring into CU

Are you thinking about transferring into CU and environmental design? Our transfer student process will help you transfer to environmental design from another school with ease.

 

Step 1. Admissions Requirements

Transfer students should have a 3.0 or higher for admission to environmental design. Transfer Admissions Office will work with all students until they have been offered admission. 

*Grades are evaluated during the current term for GPA

Important Application Deadlines
October 1: spring semester
March 15: summer & fall early action
June 1: fall regular decision

Step 2. Set Up a Transfer Eval Appointment

Once you have been offered admission to Environmental Design, please set up a transfer appointment with John Tran to discuss your current coursework and how it applies to the environmental design curriculum.

You will go over your timeline to graduation, the transfer credit process and additional questions you might have.

Step 3. Enrollment

If you are admitted and accept your offer of admission, the transfer advisor will assist you with your course enrollment process. Students who are not admitted into environmental design are not permitted to take environmental design courses.

Curious about how your design courses will transfer into ENVD? Complete our transfer evaluation form. You can also use  to review pre-approved transfer courses for CU Boulder.

Transfer Admissions Criteria

Completion of courses in related fields of social science, natural science, fine arts, or humanities are also considered in admission review. All coursework except the last term, if in progress, must be completed and must be listed on the official transcript sent for admission consideration.

Students are encouraged to transfer as early as possible in their undergraduate career due to a large amount of design-related coursework required by the environmental design curriculum and because of the sequential nature of course offerings semester to semester. Students may declare their specialization in architecture, landscape architecture, planning or design studies at the beginning of their sequence. However, all students share the same core, and enrollment to some upper-division opportunities can be competitive.

While transfer students are admitted for the fall and spring terms each year, it is important to note that the core curriculum is a fall-semester start with only limited opportunities to begin study out of sequence. All transfer students are required to take a minimum of 30 semester hours in the Program in Environmental Design.

A maximum of 60 semester hours taken at a two-year college may be applied toward the baccalaureate degree. In general, credits in vocational-technical courses are not accepted for transfer. Transfer agreements between the University of Colorado and all Colorado community colleges outline approximately one year of prescribed general education courses that may be completed as preparation for transfer into the Program in Environmental Design.

As noted above, students should plan to transfer to the University of Colorado as soon as possible to start the sequential curriculum. See under General Information in this catalog for admission standards for transfer.

Transfer students from other universities offering pre-professional or accredited professional degree programs in one of the program's majors who enter CU-Boulder may be admitted to the degree program with advanced standing. A portfolio review will be required for this decision.

In order for transfer credit to meet core degree requirements, a grade of B or better is required in the transferring class. You can see how your credits transferred into ENVD by conducting an . If you believe credits are missing, be sure you requested transcript(s) from your previous institutions(s) and verify they have been sent. It takes a few days for CU Admissions to load transcripts into the system.

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