Joint Admissions Agreements

2024
South Texas College
https://www.southtexascollege.edu/
TexasKelli Davis
Equitable Access and Outcomes, Student Services
South Texas College has partnered with two local universities to develop joint admissions/direct admissions agreements. Students who take advantage of these agreements have an assured path to admission to one of the partnering institutions: University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) or the Texas A&M University Higher Education Center at McAllen (TAMU HECM). The two agreements are slightly different but have several common elements: students who are denied admission to UTRGV or TAMU HECM are offered admission to South Texas College to any of South Texas’ baccalaureate programs that are offered by these two universities. Upon completion of a pre-set number of credit hours and a certain GPA, these students are eligible to transition to the institution they had previously been denied. Specific university programs may have additional admission requirements. In the case of the agreement with UTRGV, these students do not even need to reapply, they just need to submit their transcript. The assured admissions requirements are also available to students who were not in the original cohort upon completion of the same number of credit hours and with the same GPA.
Joint Admissions, University Partnerships