Program Requirements
Transfer process
The BSDH Degree Completion Program accepts up to:
- 64 transfer credit hours from all community
colleges attended
- 26 non-traditional credit hours
- 90 transfer credit hours from a university or a
combination of a university and community college hours
Sample transfer credit process
A typical student
might receive credit in the following way:
NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION | NAU hours | Transfer hours |
Transfer Hours from Community College | | 64 |
Non-Traditional Credit | | 26 |
Total Transferred Hours | | 90 |
Total Hours Remaining
(to complete your degree with a 120 credit hour minimum) | 30 |
*Items in red indicate deficiency in that requirement |
Curriculum check sheet
Once a student has been admitted and enrolled into a course,
the Office of Undergraduate Admissions will perform a transfer credit
evaluation that assigns Northern Arizona University equivalency courses to your
transferred hours.
The transfer credit evaluation is then used for the
completion of an unofficial curriculum checklist, which is sent out by the
Dental Hygiene Degree Completion Department and outlines a student's Liberal
Studies and core requirement courses.
The student must then
contact the academic adviser, Kelly.Stoneberger@nau.edu
to develop a plan of study.
Completing your degree at NAU
To complete the BSDH Degree Completion Program, you must
complete:
These credits can be
distributed between courses that are taken at Northern Arizona University
and/or transferred from another university or community college. Among
these courses, a student must take a minimum of 30 credits from Northern
Arizona University and have 30 credits of upper division courses, for a total
of 120 credit hours.
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The BSDHCP program requires completion of a statistics
course above and beyond the required 30 hours for the completion of the
program. If you have already completed a statistics course, contact Kelly Stoneberger for further
information about your stats course and the approval process.
The university offers Statistics 270 online to all extended
campuses students. This statistics course does
have a prerequisite of an intermediate algebra course. If you take stats 270
through NAU, it does not count toward your required 30 hours of upper division
course work.
Below shows how a typical student would need to complete 30
credits to graduate with a BS in Dental Hygiene. Of those 30 credits,
12 are in Liberal Studies and 18 are in Dental Hygiene.
NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY REQUIREMENTS FOR
GRADUATION. | NAU hrs. | Transfer hrs. |
Northern Arizona University Liberal Studies Hours (35
Hours) | 12 | 23 |
Total Northern Arizona University DH Core Requirements
(18 Hours Minimum) | 18 | |
Northern Arizona University Hours Requirements (30 Hours
Minimum) | 30 | |
Total Hours (120 Hours Minimum) | 30 | 90 |
*Items that are in red indicate deficiency in that requirement. |
For transfer credits:
if you have a degree in Dental Hygiene from a Community College, you will
receive 63 credit hours depending on the work completed. If you have any additional university or
4-year-college credits they may be added to your transfer credits.