Transfer Credit Friendly Universities, Colleges, and Organizations
University Partners | Conditional Acceptance | Higher Education Transfer Alliance
At CSU, we are committed to providing our students with resources that will enhance their educational experience. Our university partnerships help us fulfill this commitment by offering CSU students transfer credit opportunities. A list of institutions that accept transfer credit on a course-by-course basis are also listed on this page. The information contained on this page does not include all schools that accept CSU credit for transfer or that CSU accepts transfer credit from. Please consult with the institution you're interested in transferring to or from to confirm transferability of credit.
University Partners
These university partners may offer additional benefits to CSU students, alumni, faculty and staff including acceptance of transfer credit, tuition discounts, admission application fee waivers and access to advising and other services. If you are a university official and would like more information about how to become a CSU University Partner, email Karl Hoffman.
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Alabama Fire College
Alabama Fire College graduates are allowed advanced entrance into Columbia Southern University's BS in Fire Science program. Columbia Southern University now accepts courses completed at the Alabama Fire College for equivalent CSU major courses or electives. A maximum of 55 credit hours of course work taken at the Alabama Fire College can be transferred to Columbia Southern University.
See courses that can be transferred to CSU.
College of Extended and International Education, California State University, Dominguez Hills
California State University Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) is home to the Los Angeles area's only authorized OSHA Training Institute Education Center (OTIEC). The 18 Federal OSHA training courses available at the CSUDH OTIEC are joined by a portfolio of classes offered as part of two CSUDH Cal/OSHA based Certificates in environmental, occupational, health & safety (www.csudh.edu/safetysaves ). CSUDH and Columbia Southern University (CSU) are proud to have teamed up together so that students may earn up to 40 semester hours of the 120 hour CSU Bachelor of Science Degree in Occupational Safety and Health by participating in the Federal OSHA and Cal/OSHA courses and Certificates offered at CSUDH.
For information about the CSU Bachelor of Science Degree in Occupational Safety and Health and how to apply your CSUDH courses, please contact the CSU Admissions Department.
Eastern Iowa Community College District
Eastern Iowa Community College students enrolled in Health Safety and Technology are granted entrance into the Columbia Southern University occupational health and safety and environmental management programs.
Masters International School of Divinity
Masters International School of Divinity students are permitted to take Columbia Southern University courses that can be used to obtain degrees at Masters Divinity School. Please contact Master's International School of Divinity for a listing of the courses that are accepted. CSU MBA/MS graduates will receive a 10 percent discount on tuition fees up to $2,000.
South Central College
South Central College (SCC) students enrolled in the SCC Occupational Safety and Management program are allowed entrance into the CSU Occupational Health and Safety program. SCC graduates and employees, including spouses and children, will also receive a 10 percent tuition discount.
Southern Arkansas University Tech
Southern Arkansas University Tech (SAU) provides students with the opportunity to earn an AAS degree in Fire Science and an AAS degree in Technology with an emphasis in Law Enforcement. The degree programs offered by SAU Tech have been articulated into CSU BS in Fire Science and Criminal Justice degree programs to allow maximum credit transfer from SAU Tech into CSU programs. SAU Tech has developed articulation agreements with numerous Arkansas two year colleges and works in conjunction with the Arkansas Fire Academy by providing an outstanding curriculum for their students.
Stark State College of Technology
Stark State College of Technology in North Canton, Ohio is the largest technical college in Ohio. The college offers 49 associate degrees in a variety of fields including business technology, health technology, engineering technology, information technology, public service technology and general studies.
Students can receive undergraduate transfer credit towards the Columbia Southern University (CSU) Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Management or Occupational Safety and Health for courses successfully completed through the Stark State College of Technology Environmental, Health and Safety Technology Program. Stark State College of Technology students, graduates, employees and immediate family are also eligible for a 10 percent tuition discount and application fee waiver.
Trinidad State Junior College
Trinidad State Junior College (TSJC) students enrolled in the Occupational Safety and Health program are granted entrance into the CSU Occupational Safety and Health program.
Waldorf College
CSU students can transfer credit earned in a CSU undergraduate program into a bachelor’s degree in business administration, organizational leadership or fire science administration at Waldorf College. Offered as hybrid online programs, courses are offered primarily online with a minimal residential requirement. Three days (1 credit-hour) of on-site instruction is required for every 30 credit hours earned online.
Residency requirements can be fulfilled at Waldorf College or at various sites across the U.S. Residential programs are also available in popular fields of study including communications, education, biology, history, humanities, music and more.
Waldorf College is owned by Mayes Education, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Columbia Southern University.
Conditional Acceptance
Acceptance of transfer credit will be determined on a course-by-course basis using criteria such as credit amount, course title or grade received at the following universities.
- American Public University System
- Bellevue University
- Calvin College
- Cardinal Stritch University
- Defense Acquisition University
- Jones International University
- Keystone College
- Lake Area Technical Institute
- Langston University
- Millikin University
- Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
- Tennessee Temple University
- Touro University
- TUI University
- University of Phoenix
- Upper Iowa University
- Vincennes University
- Walden University
- Warner University
- Western Governors University
Higher Education Transfer Alliance (HETA)
If the above universities do not offer a program that meets your needs, another great resource is the HETA list. Below is a paragraph from the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) website concerning the HETA list.
The Higher Education Transfer Alliance (HETA) is a voluntary group of accredited institutions that are concerned with the importance of student mobility, enhancing success in transfer of credit, and affirming the responsibility and prerogative of individual institutions with respect to acceptance of transfer credits. HETA is a Web-based directory of colleges and universities that is open to all institutions that are accredited by an organization recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) or the United States Department of Education (USDE). Membership in HETA is entirely voluntary. HETA is not intended to and will not constrain institutional freedom or prerogatives with respect to acceptance of transfer credit.