Reverse Transfer FAQs
Reverse Transfer
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Reverse transfer is for students who have transferred from a two-year community college to the University of Wisconsin - Superior before earning their associate’s degree. Credits completed at UW-Superior are transferred back to your community college and used to satisfy the degree requirements for your associate’s degree. This is much like how your credit transferred from your community college to UW-Superior, just in reverse. Your community college will evaluate your UW-Superior work and determine if credits taken at UWS will fulfill requirements for your associate’s degree.
Participating Community Colleges
- Lake Superior College
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An associate’s degree is an important milestone in your education as well as a valuable credential to have on your resume. Employers value the associate’s degree as evidence of your commitment to expanding your knowledge and achieving your educational goals. The associate’s degree can make a difference in your long-term success in several ways:It can open the door to better job opportunities, even while you’re still working on your bachelor’s degreeIt is the nation’s fastest growing academic credential and employers recognize its value when recruiting and hiring.
If you transferred to the University of Wisconsin - Superior from a community college without completing all the requirements for your associate’s degree it may be possible to complete the credits you need using UW-Superior courses by reverse transferring your UWS credits to your community college.
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To facilitate this for our students, UW-Superior has signed formal agreements with the participating community college. Through these agreements, we will periodically evaluate your record and if you have met certain requirements ask your permission to send your UWS transcript to your community college, specifically for reverse transfer purposes.
Or, you can fill out this Reverse Transfer Transcript Request form and return it to us.
Then, once your community college reviews your transcript, if you have earned a degree, just have an updated community college transcript sent to UWS.
You can have your community college transcript mailed to this address:
University of Wisconsin – Superior
Attn: Admissions
P.O. Box 2000
Superior, WI 54880 -
We are working with other community colleges to formalize agreements, but until then, there is no reason why reverse transfer can’t be an option for you as well! All you need to do is periodically request that UWS send your transcript back to your community college. In order to facilitate the process, you may wish to contact the office responsible for evaluating credit at your community college (typically the admissions or registrar’s office) and let them know you are sending your transcript back and would like it evaluated for reverse transfer.
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No. Sending your UW-Superior transcript back to your community college does not guarantee the awarding of your associate’s degree. The courses you take at UW-Superior will be evaluated by your community college and the determination of any degree requirements are the discretion of your community college.
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Most likely, yes, but you need to contact the community college for information on how to participate. Be sure to let them know that you are taking advantage of reverse transfer.
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Most community colleges do require this, yes.