From online degree to brick and mortar degree

A friend of mine is in a doctoral program at Capella University and wants to transfer to UCF (University of Central Florida). UCF is on the list of one of the schools her employers would reimburse her for if she attended. I told her that although I do not have any concrete proof, not only don't I think UCF would accept doctoral transfers but I don't think there are any universities that accept doctoral degree transfers. Please clear this up. Do you know of any institutions, online or not, that accept doctoral transfer students?

Thanks,

 

Nova Southeastern University’s Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship "... will accept as transfer credit up to two courses (eight credits) of doctoral coursework completed at another regionally accredited institution."
http://www.huizenga.nova.edu/futurestudents/doctoral/Admissions.cfm

Rackham Graduate School – University of Michigan: http://www.rackham.umich.edu/policies/gsh/section2/

University of Minnesota http://www.catalogs.umn.edu/grad/gen/phd.html

University of Houston – College of Education: “With the approval of the student's academic advisor, program coordinator, department chair, and the executive associate dean, a student may transfer a maximum of 30 semester hours of graduate credit from another university into the doctoral program."
http://www.uh.edu/grad_catalog/edu/doctorate.html

 

It looks like doctoral program credit transfer is descibed here:
http://www.graduatecatalog.ucf.edu/content/Policies.aspx?id=5696&linkidentifier=id&itemid=5696
So it looks like UCF may allow transfer of credit provided it was for coursework.

 

Generally, 25% of the coursework credits for a Ph.D. is the most that can be transferred, and it is usually less. But this matter is one of the main reasons I always put a "Bending the rules" section in my book. This one is bent often, as in:

"You've taken 30 graduate units at RA School #1, with a good GPA, but here at RA School #2, we are limited to accepting 18 of those units as transfer credit. So you can take three 4-unit classes of 'Independent Study' here at School #2, each one based on the courses you've already taken -- so you will need to do little or no new work, but at most write a summary paper..."

Each of the many times I was told about such a development, it was always accompanied with an urgent request not to mention the school name, or they'd be in trouble with the accreditor, etc.

So it is worth exploring, especially if one has a friend, colleague, or other good contact at School #2. However it will not help to say, "But John Bear said I could . . . "