INFORMATION FOR TRANSFER APPLICANTS

If you have completed high school, home school, or a GED and have earned (or will earn) credit* at a college or university before your first day at Columbia, please apply as a transfer student.

*This excludes the following types of college credit: exam-based credits (AP, IB, CLEP), dual enrollment credits, courses taken as part of a summer program for high school students, and/or any credits earned during the summer immediately following high school graduation or GED completion.

Our Fall 2022 Transfer Class

491 students transferred to Columbia

They represented 31 U.S. states, Puerto Rico, and 7 foreign countries were from the Chicago metro area transferred from a community college transferred from another four-year institution transferred with an earned associate degree identified as students of color identified as members of the LGBTQIA+ community identified as firstgeneration college students lived in one of Columbia’s four residence halls