Transfer Application

Transfer students are encouraged to apply for admission online as soon as possible. Here are some helpful guidelines to the application process:

1. Submit a completed application for admission with the $20 application fee to the Office of Admissions (See application fee procedural guidelines below).

2. Application fee procedural guidelines:

• If you have attended a regental university (Black Hills State University, University of South Dakota, South Dakota State University, Northern State University, Dakota State University, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology) within the previous three terms, (including summer), your $20 application fee will be waived. If your attendance at a regental university was not within the previous three terms, you will be required to pay the $20 application fee.
• If you have attended a regental university, but have since attended a non-regental university, and it has been within the previous three terms since your attendance at the regental university, your $20 application fee will be waived. If you have attended a regental university, but have since attended a non-regental university, and it has been more than three terms since your attendance at the regental university, you will be required to pay the $20 application fee.

3. Request that your high school and all post-secondary institutions attended send official transcripts directly to the Office of Admissions. You are not required to send transcripts from the following South Dakota state schools: USD, SDSU, NSU, DSU and SDSM&T.

4. To see how credits will transfer, contact the Admissions Office. Have a copy (official or unofficial) of all post-secondary transcripts sent to the Admissions Office.

5. Schedule an Individual Registration Appointment to register for your classes.

Admission Requirements

Transfer students must have a 2.0 (C) grade point average from all previous college/university course work and must submit all college/university transcripts. Students not meeting the 2.0 GPA admission requirement may be admitted on academic probation. Transfer students must also submit a copy of their high school transcript. Transfer students with 24 or fewer credit hours and students who are not yet 22 must provide us with ACT of SAT scores.

Have all application materials (including application for admission, ACT/SAT scores, high school transcripts, and college transcripts) along with your $20 application fee sent to the Office of Admissions to be processed.

Black Hills State University

Office of Admissions

1200 University Street Unit 9502

Spearfish, SD 57799-9502

(605)642-6343

Admissions@bhsu.edu

To Request a Credit Review:

Simply have a copy (official or unofficial) of all post-secondary transcripts sent to the Registrar’s Office.

A maximum of 64 semester hours will be accepted from an accredited junior/community college.

If you earned less than a “C” in a course, the credit will not be accepted within the major or minor, and in some instances, within the general education requirements.

All students are responsible for fulfilling the general education requirements, as well as the major requirements outlined in the university catalog.