Procedure for Having Transfer Credit Sent for Review
Transcripts from all acceptable colleges at which graduate credit was earned must be sent by the college attended directly to the Office of the Registrar at Thomas Edison State University. When requesting a transcript, students should provide their former college with:
- maiden name or former name,
- college ID number at that institution,
- Social Security number,
- date of birth,
- years in attendance, and
- address of Thomas Edison State University.
The best way to have official college transcripts sent to Thomas Edison State University is through a secured electronic delivery system. Secure electronic delivery is the quickest method of delivery and is trackable. TESU does not accept transcripts sent by email as an attachment or through a service other than the ones with whom the University participates. Students should ask the sending institution if they can send the transcript electronically to the University. If they need an email address to send it, please use transcripts@tesu.edu.
• eScrip-Safe/ Credentials Solutions
• National Student Clearinghouse
• NJTransfer
• Parchment/Avow
• WES World Educational Services (foreign credentials only)
A secondary way to have transcripts sent to the University is by mail. Official transcripts should be mailed from the institution’s registrar/records office directly to Thomas Edison State University. TESU will also accept official transcripts that have been sent to a student in a sealed envelope and then forwarded to the University directly from the student, as long as it doesn’t appear that the envelope has been opened. If it appears that the envelope has been opened, the University will not accept the transcript. Official transcripts should be sent to:
Office of the Registrar
Thomas Edison State University
111 W State St.
Trenton, NJ 08608
In addition, graduate credit for transfer may be reviewed from the following sources:
- Thomas Edison State University generally accepts the credit recommendations of the American Council on Education (ACE) CREDIT and the National College Credit Recommendation Service (NCCRS). The list of programs, licenses and certifications reviewed by these services are constantly being updated, and the University reserves the right to determine which recommendations it will accept.
- ACE credit recommendations are published online at ACE National Guide..
- NCCRS credit recommendations are published online at NCCRS.
- The University will review graduate level foreign credit recommendations from a required course-by-course evaluation completed by any of the following agencies. Thomas Edison State University will not evaluate transcripts from other countries and there is no need to send them to TESU.
Academic Credentials Evaluation Institute, Inc.
www.acei1.com
Center for Applied Research, Evaluations & Education, Inc.
www.iescaree.com
Educational Credential Evaluators, Inc. (ECE)
www.ece.org
World Educational Services, Inc. (WES)
www.wes.org
SDR Educational Consultants
www.sdreducational.org
SpanTran Evaluation Services
www.spantran.com
Transcript Research
www.transcriptresearch.com
All costs associated with the international credit evaluation are the responsibility of the student.
The University reserves the right to make its own determination on the amount and type of credit to be awarded based on the evaluations provided by these agencies. Students may select one of the evaluations prepared on their behalf by one of the agencies identified above. There will be no mixing and matching of evaluations. Only courses with a grade of B or better, or “pass” for pass/fail courses will be accepted in transfer.