Information for B.S.E. Students
This information has been composed with specific relevance to students in the B.S.E. degree program. A.B. students should consult their residential college dean or assistant dean. Full guidelines applicable to all students can be found here.
Courses that are pre-approved for transfer credit must be taken in person. Online courses are not permitted.
After matriculation at Princeton, B.S.E. students may count up to four pre-approved courses taken at other schools toward their course requirements. A student may not earn more than two units of transfer credit in a given summer or term of leave, and may not enroll in such courses while simultaneously taking courses at Princeton.
Such courses can be used to remove a course deficiency or can be “banked” to offset future deficiencies. They can also be used for general B.S.E. requirements (except computing), prerequisites in certain departments, or for fulfillment of humanities and social science distribution areas.
Outside courses may only be taken during the summer or during a fall or spring term when the student is not enrolled at Princeton. Courses offered between Princeton’s fall and spring terms may not be taken for transfer credit.
Special Rules for Math Courses
The Math Department has developed special procedures for the approval of Math courses which they have defined here. Basically, these procedures are a more explicit version of what is outlined above, so save yourself a hassle and just follow the procedures closely. Remember, differential equations is approved by MAE as MAE 305, not by Math.
Other Special Policies
The University writing requirement and the B.S.E. computing requirement (nominally COS 126) cannot be satisfied by courses taken elsewhere. They must be taken at Princeton.
Financial Aid
See Summer Programs for current policies and procedures.
Deadlines
All summer requests must be submitted before the end of the spring term. The sooner you submit the form the better. If your circumstances at the end of the spring term suddenly require you to take a summer course (e.g., you find yourself with fewer than the required number of courses to advance to the following year or you fail a required course), then it is possible to obtain late preapproval BEFORE THE SUMMER COURSE BEGINS by sending the relevant information as a PDF (not JPG or other graphics format) attachment to the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, BSEprogram@princeton.edu.