Last Thursday, the Center for College Planning talked with Gary Cilley, the Director of Transfer and Articulation for the University System of New Hampshire. Mr. Cilley is the gentleman in charge of setting up and maintaining the articulation agreements between all of the public colleges here in New Hampshire. An articulation agreement is an agreement between two colleges that a student can take a certain curriculum at one college and all credits will transfer to the partner school, thus keeping the student on track to graduate with their desired degree on schedule.

While students always have had the ability to transfer from a community college to a public 4-year college, there were no articulation agreements making for a seamless transition. This is what Mr. Cilley’s office aimed to fix, and fix it they have. His office has developed a website, www.nhtransfer.com. This website outlines the agreements for course transfer between public (and currently only a couple private) colleges here in NH. The website went live in January of 2009 and is being updated on a regular basis.

As an example, you can select that you are attending River Valley Community College for the first two years to study criminal justice and also select Plymouth State University as where you want to transfer to complete your bachelor’s degree. You can input a course you want to take at RVCC and will then see if it is transferrable to Plymouth State.

In the example below, the student is taking “Crisis Intervention in Criminal Justice.” You can see that this class would transfer to Plymouth and meet the course requirement for a “criminal justice major elective.” 




The website is pretty cool, and provides good information to have available to you if you’re thinking about starting at a community college and possibly transferring after a year or two. 

Also, if you have particular questions about the agreements feel free to contact Mr. Cilley through NH Transfer’s email at info@nhtransfer.org.

Making the process easier,

Rich