TRANSFER OF CREDITS FROM AN ACCREDITED INSTITUTION WITHIN THE UNITED STATES

To request official transcripts from an accredited institution within the United States, applicants must follow the published policies and procedures for the institution for which they are requesting their official transcripts. Applicants are responsible for all fees and expenses associated with their request and sending of official transcripts from the awarding institution to Miami Regional University. Official transcripts must be either emailed to registrar@mru.edu or sealed and mailed directly to:

Miami Regional University
ATTN: Office of the Registrar
700 South Royal Poinciana Blvd, Suite 100
Miami Springs, FL 33166

Courses considered for transfer must have a minimum of 2.0 GPA (grade letter of a C) or higher. Some programs require a higher GPA or letter grade. Please see program specific transfer credit criteria in the University Catalog for further information. Miami Regional University does not accept transfer credits from unaccredited institutions.

To transfer credits from foreign institutions, applicants must submit, prior to enrollment, a Transfer of Credits Request Form along with the corresponding documentation that must comply with the following: Evaluation and translation of the diploma and transcripts by an approved NACES or AICE organization to include a course-by-course description, grade and credits awarded.

It is well documented that there are some nations where student applicants face unsurmountable obstacles to provide the University with written, detailed evidence of their degrees. Typically, these nations include those identified by the federal government as terrorist states, enemy states, or nations suffering great natural or other disasters. The University realizes that it is beyond the capacity of a typical student applicant to produce acceptable documentation from institutions in those areas. On a temporary basis, until those identified national issues are resolved, the University will accept alternative documentation of educational transcripts, program outlines and similar documentation.

If the University or a recognized transcript translator/evaluator have documentation from an institution in those special areas and a new applicant can prove that they attended the same institution in the same general timeframe, the University may utilize the existing documentation when evaluating the new applicant. Considering that these institutions are foreign with significant cultural and language differences, when evaluating the content of courses in transcripts or program outlines, MRU personnel may use all tools and information available to establish the content of courses taken by applicants. Specifically, the University may refer to the “Programa de Estudio” (Curriculum, Study Plan) from a University in an affected country which has been certified by the Ministerio de Salud Publica (Ministry of Public Health), Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (Ministry of External Relations), and the Ministerio de Finanza (Ministry of Finance) and any other comparable document which explains the curriculum studied in those countries in question. The applicant must still comply with the University’s policy to have their diplomas and transcripts translated and evaluated by an NACES or AICE approved credentialing agency, but in this case using the secondary transcript in its place, for course identification purposes only.