Your faculty advisor is familiar with transfer policies and will be able to assist you in selecting classes that will be credited at the institution of your choice. Please be advised that transfer requirements change often and will depend on your choice of transfer institution, your choice of program/major, and other factors. Frequent contact with your faculty advisor will help make your transfer experience as smooth as possible.

Guaranteed Admission Programs & Articulation Agreements

Mountain Empire Community College has guaranteed admission agreements with several 4-year colleges and universities in Virginia and around the region. These agreements provide certain benefits for students who graduate from MECC with an associate's degree in one of the six transfer majors. Under the terms of these agreements, you may have guaranteed admissions and receive junior status upon transfer.

MECC also has program-specific articulation agreements with several four-year colleges and universities around the state and region. These agreements apply to students who earn an associate's degree and are designed to facilitate transfer of coursework taken at MECC into bachelor's degree programs.

• VCCS System-wide Transfer and Articulation Agreements
• VCCS Transfer Wheel

MECC's current guaranteed admission and articulation agreements are listed below.

Additional Transfer Resources

Transfer literature such as catalogs, applications, and viewbooks are available in the Student Services area in Holton Hall. An annual Transfer Day is held, traditionally, on the last Monday in January. Transfer Day gives students the opportunity to meet with representatives from many four-year colleges and universities around the state and region. The Student Services office also publishes the College Transfer Guide annually. The Transfer Guide provides information on how individual courses available at MECC are credited at the most common transfer institutions in the region.  

• MECC Transfer Guide [PDF]
   
• For additional information on how certain VCCS courses transfer to Virginia's public and private colleges and universities, view the SCHEV (State Council of Higher Education for Virginia) Transfer Program Tool
  
  
• College Transfer Electives
  Humanities Electives
  Social Science Electives
   
• Links to public and private four-year colleges and universities in Virginia
     
• Northern Virginia Community College's Transfer Resource web site is a good source of information. It provides links to many other web sites which will be useful in your transfer planning, such as college home pages, various college rankings, scholarship databases, and financial aid sites.
   
• Praxis Assessment for Teachers
  
  
• Link to Opportunities, a publication which provides information on majors, tuition and fees, and scholarships available at Virginia’s public and private colleges and universities. 
   
• Academic Common Market
  The Academic Common Market allows a student majoring in certain specific undergraduate or graduate programs of study to attend a university in another participating state without having to pay out-of-state tuition.  The Academic Common Market applies to programs of study which are not offered by public institutions in the student's home state.  For more information, go to the SREB's Academic Common Market page.  You may also contact Carolyn Helms in Student Services.

MECC has been offering Dual Enrollment classes since 1989 under the Virginia Plan for Dual Enrollment.

• Information about MECC's Dual Enrollment Program

For more information about transfer, contact:

Carolyn Helms, Professional Counselor, at ext. 316 (Sutherland Student Services Suite, Holton Hall).