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Universal Transfer Program

 

Today, more than half of Kansas college students attend one of the state’s 19 community colleges or 1 of the 21 Independent Institutions.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) estimates that transfer students nationally lose nearly a full semester of credits when they transfer. These losses represent lost time and money for the student. KICA and Kansas' Community Colleges are committed to showing everyone a better way to serve transfer students.


In September 2022, the presidents of all 21 KICA institutions and all 19 Kansas' community colleges signed a groundbreaking articulation agreement. Under this new agreement:

  • Any student who completes an associate's degree (AA or AS) at a Kansas community college and transfers to a KICA college is granted "junior status."

  • For those students, the KICA college considers its general education requirements met except for up to 9 credit hours in religion and theology that the colleges require all students to complete.

  • All KICA institutions adopted the Systemwide Transfer course list, thus each course taken by the transfer student directly correlates to the course offered at the KICA institution (where applicable). 

    

Kansas Association of Community College’s Executive Director Heather Morgan praised this partnership, noting “The benefits of the new transfer agreement, the student opportunities it provides, and the potential for additional partnerships to benefit Kansas students reflects the synergy that we need in higher education. We’re working to meet the needs of Kansas learners and this transfer agreement is a key link to ongoing student success and advancement.”

Dr. Michael Schneider, President of McPherson College and member of the KICA Board of Directors, celebrated the event by saying, “The spirit of innovation and the road to success intersect at the passion of a Kansas student. The agreement we signed...is the preamble to the new stories of enterprise that our students will write.”

Kansas leaders understand and hold strong to the quantitative proof that higher education leads to an improved quality of life for students, their families, and their communities. A positive experience while in college in Kansas leads to more students living and working in Kansas, a benefit to the entire state.

 

When the announcement was first made, both networks were grateful for diverse media support. Read the articles here, here, and here. 

Click here to learn more about Kansas' network of Community Colleges and HERE to learn about Kansas' Independent Schools.