Has any U.S. college student here been a community college transfer then accepted to a grad program abroad?

Question

Hi!

So I am in a wierd situation. I was a community college transfer student at my university and all is well. I am slated to graduate from my university next May.

The bad thing:

Now I want to go to grad school in Europe, and even though my university is on the internationally recognized list they have, community colleges aren't on there. What should I do?

Whenever I have spoken to people abroad about community colleges they have no idea what I am talking about! Will this be an enormous hindrance to me getting accepted to a European (preferably Scandinavian) grad school for a master's degree?

Answer 1

As you know community colleges do not award Bachelor's Degrees, so your transfer to a four-year institution is completely normal.

Where you got your associates degree and where you got your Bachelor's degree is, in part, irrelevant. All that matters is that you have the Bachelor's Degree. Which your school transcripts will show that you have.

A Bachelor's Degree in the U.S. as you know is generally 120 hours, which is you do 24 credit hours per year (12 a semester, you will earn that in five years. On your final school transcript, it will show the 120 accumulative credit hours and the fact that you have a bachelor's degree and are therefore eligible for admission to a Master's program.

Edit:

The courses you completed at Community College should have been your associates' general studies requirements, along with a few courses for your major (if possible) correct?

If so, when you transfered, the university should have transfered about 60 odd credits, usually about half of your Bachelor's degree credit requirements. Is this also correct?

Once you graduate with your Bachelor's Degree, you should then see about 120 credits in total, correct?

If that is the case, then you have a Bachelor's Degree and thus that is all that is required, proof you have graduate with one. If you need additional evidence, then make an appointment with international student adviser (if you are an international student) or with the transfer office and ask them to write, on a letter-headed paper, confirmation of your Bachelor's Degree and then send in everything which you have got.