A. Courses that have a New Mexico common course number shall be accepted as the equivalent courses offered at the receiving institution.

B. Courses taken as part of an approved meta-major or transfer module shall be accepted to meet lower-division graduation requirements of a degree-granting program to which the meta-major or transfer module articulates.

C. An institution shall not increase requirements for degree-granting programs as a result of the use of a meta-major or transfer module or acceptance of a course that is part of a meta-major or transfer module. An institution may specify additional lower-division or upper-division requirements not included in a meta-major or transfer module for one or more programs of study; provided that those requirements apply equally to transfer students and students originating their study at the institution.

History: Laws 1995, ch. 224, § 4; 2005, ch. 272, § 4; 2017, ch. 18, § 3.

The 2017 amendment, effective July 1, 2017, provided for the transfer of credits between and among New Mexico institutions of higher education; in the catchline, deleted "use of transfer module" and added "transfer of credits"; in Subsection A, deleted "Each" and added "Courses that have a New Mexico common course number shall be accepted as the equivalent courses offered at the receiving", and after "institution", deleted the remainder of the subsection; added a new Subsection B and redesignated former Subsection B as Subsection C; deleted former Subsection C, which related to the transfer of completed transfer modules; and in Subsection D, added "meta-major or" in two places, and after "requirements not included in a", deleted "discipline" and added "meta-major or transfer".

The 2005 amendment, effective June 17, 2005, provided in Subsection A that Subsection A applies to any course that is part of a transfer module; provided in Subsection B that an institution shall not increase the degree requirements as a result of acceptance of a course that is part of a transfer module and that an institution may specify additional requirements not included in a discipline module for programs of study; deleted the former provisions of Subsection C which provided that the commission establish procedures to identify additional lower-division courses in specific disciplines of study that will be transferable and applicable to baccalaureate degrees in specific programs of study; and added Subsection C to provide that institution shall accept completed transfer modules as a block as fulfilling lower-division coursework and upon transfer of a discipline module, admit students into the upper-division program.