AACSB MBA - Want to transfer credits to a Top 50 MBA school. Please help!

Hi there,

My name is Karl and I am new to this forum. I am a graduate student in the Texas A&M Commerce AACSB MBA program. Presently, I hold a 4.0 GPA. I would like to transfer my credits to a Top 50 AACSB MBA school. At the present moment, I have completed all 6 of my prerequisites and 2 of my core courses. I still have 8 courses left to complete.

According to the 2011 Financial Times rankings, Texas A&M - Mays is ranked 44th in the world. Would it be difficult to transfer from one Texas A&M school to another? What other schools might I consider?

Lastly, Texas A&M - Commerce allowed students with a UGPA of 3.0 or higher to bypass the GMAT. I did not write the GMAT. Will this be a problem?


Thanks,

Karl

 

Hi Karl,

Welcome to Degree Info. Your achievements are very respectable and it sounds like almost any school would be glad to have you. The problem is that most programs will only allow a certain number of transfer credits; usually you just can't pack up and move everything to another school. We have run into this problem many times. Usually, only somewhere between 12 and 18 credits will be accepted into a program. I hope you can prove me wrong on this because I would like to see you get what you are looking for, but I will be surprised if it happens.

 

PS. May I ask why you want to transfer?

 

Here is one top MBA program's policy on transfers:

And here's another:

I haven't reviewed the policy of every top-ranked MBA program, but in general, I think they have little to no interest in transfer students. If you want to attend such schools, you typically need to apply as a new student. And you typically need a high GRE or GMAT score to be a competitive candidate.

Can't say if these points apply to the Texas A&M Mays School specifically, but it wouldn't surprise me. They clearly expect "competitive GMAT/GRE scores (50th percentile or higher for verbal and quantitative sections)" in their regular applicants. And they can afford to be selective, since they reject 75% of their applicants.

You might want to contact the Mays School directly to see if they accept MBA transfer applications at all. If they do, ask about the number of applications and acceptances. I seriously doubt that they would waive the GMAT/GRE requirement, but you could check that too.

 

The advice above is sound and I won't add to it in the same sense.

What I will note for the sake of the thread and your situation is this:

1. Texas A&M is a great school to be getting a MBA from.
2. Top MBA programs tend to be integrative.
2a. Meaning that coursework is tailored to intersect other courses in the path and meld nicely towards your thesis.

3. As a result of points 2, you may not want to transfer credit, even if you could.. provided you get into another top 50 program. What's being taught in one strategy class (apart from Porter) and another could be wildly different in application and dependent on how and what you learned in corp finance or managerial, or statistics.

Two cents.
ITJD

 

The most vie ever seen a AACSB MBA program allow to transfer is 6 credits, and I'm not aware of any top 50 programs that allow any transfer credit. Sometimes a course may be waived (I know a student that had an MS in Economics and was allowed to skip the core Econ course, but had to do an independent study in it's place and I know of CPAs that were allowed to skip the core Accounting courses but had to take other electives).

 

As regards the GMAT; some AACSB schools might waiver this under certain conditions (e.g., UH-Victoria has a GMAT Waiver Policy Welcome to the University of Houston-Victoria School of Business Administration, offering the AACSB-accredited Strategic MBA Online, Globa MBA Online, and Master of Science in Economic Development and Entrepreneurship Online, but not UH-Bauer COB); most will not … in particular AACSB schools. In that the OP has completed 8-classes at TAMU-Commerce with a 4.0 GPA … maybe (?) TAMU (Mays) would waiver the GMAT (e.g., with TAMU-Commerce being part of the TAMU System).

 

As others have said, you may be allowed to transfer a few credits but you'll lose many more than you'll transfer. Still, it's possible but I'd think you'd have to have a very compelling reason to transfer.