A transfer student from a four-year institution shall not be eligible for intercollegiate competition at a Division I institution until the student has fulfilled a residence requirement of one full academic year (two full semesters or three full quarters) at the certifying institution, unless you meet one of the transfer residence requirements. Further, a transfer student-athlete admitted after the 12th class day may not utilize that semester or quarter for purpose of establishing residency.
Four-year college transfers to Charlotte or any other A-10 institution must meet the transfer standards of the A-10 and the University. The most commonly used transfer exception is called the one-time transfer exception (for sports other than Division I basketball).
One-Time Transfer Exception
The student transfers to the certifying institution from another four-year collegiate institution, and all of the following conditions are met (for graduate students, see also Bylaw 14.1.9.1):
- The student is a participant in a sport other than basketball, (Revised: 1/16/93 effective 8/1/93, 1/11/94, 1/10/95, 11/1/00, effective 8/1/01)
- The student has not transferred previously from one four-year institution unless, in the previous transfer, the student-athlete received an exception per Bylaw 14.5.5.2.6 (discontinued/ nonsponsored sport exception); (Revised: 1/11/94, 1/11/97)
- The student is in good academic standing and meets the progress toward degree requirements. The transferring student must be one who would have been academically eligible had he or she remained at the institution from which the student transferred, and he or she also must be eligible at the certifying institution as a regularly enrolled, full-time, degree-seeking student who was admitted in accordance with the regular, published entrance requirements of the institution. The student shall not be required to fulfill the necessary percentage-of-degree requirements per Bylaw 25.5.5.1, deleted at the previous institution; (Revised: 1/10/95, 1/9/96)
- If the student is transferring from a NCAA or NAIA member institution, the student's previous institution shall certify in writing that it has no objection to the student's being granted an exception to the transfer-residence requirement. If the student's previous institution denies his or her request for the release, the institution shall inform the student-athlete in writing that he or she, upon request, shall be provided a hearing conducted by an institutional entity or committee outside of the athletics department (e.g., the office of student affairs; office of the dean of students; or a committee composed of the faculty athletics representative, student-athletes and nonathletics faculty/staff members). The institution shall have established reasonable procedures for promptly hearing such a request; and (Revised: 1/11/94, 4/26/01)
- If the student transfers to the certifying institution from a Division III member institution and meets the foregoing conditions, he or she may be eligible to compete but shall not receive athletically related financial aid during the first academic year in residence at the certifying institution.
A student-athlete who signed a National Letter of Intent (NLI) at the original institution may face limitations on participation at another four-year institution if the student-athlete transfers before completing one full year at the original school. Please refer to the National Letter of Intent or the National Letter of Intent website for more information.
