A visiting non-degree student is one who registers and takes courses for credit at the University of Windsor for the purpose of transferring the credit to the university at which he or she was previously registered.
For any applicant applying as a visiting non-degree student, a Letter of Permission from the home university will be requested after UWindsor’s initial review of your application. It is the applicant’s responsibility to acquire this letter from the home university so please request it early.
Visiting non-degree student applicants may apply to study part-time or full-time at the University of Windsor:
After submitting your application form, you can expect to receive an application acknowledgement email within five business days.
This email will include instructions for:
Once you have accessed UWinsite Student, you will need to respond to the items in your To Do List, including uploading the following documents:
After your documents have been received, they will be verified by UWindsor’s Office of the Registrar and the items on your To Do List in UWinsite Student marked as “Completed.”
It is only at this point – when all your documentation has been submitted and is in order – that evaluation of your application will begin. Evaluation, if there are no unique circumstances which require further analysis, may take up to four weeks.
You can monitor the status of your application in UWinsite Student. You will also be notified by email when a decision has been made.
The majority of transfer students are eligible to earn transfer credits. For specialized Transfer Pathways, these credits may be earned as a block of credits through transfer or degree completion pathway. See more information on Transfer and Degree Completion Pathways.
Transfer Credit evaluation starts at the point of admission. Transcripts are evaluated to determine courses that are eligible for transfer credit. Transfer credit is granted at a minimum grade of 60% for university level / undergraduate degree program courses and 70% for College level / diploma program courses.
Courses that have been previously evaluated for Transfer Credit will be evaluated at the point of admission. Please see our Course Equivalency Database for a possible listing of evaluated credits from the post-secondary institutions you have previously attended.
For courses that have not been previously evaluated, your letter of admission will proceed and not be delayed and students are encouraged to proceed to “Step 4 – Next Steps” to complete the admission while their transfer credit is processed.
In addition to receiving your letter of admission, you will be asked to submit course outlines for courses that have not been previously evaluated for transfer credit. Review the Guidelines here. Transfer credit evaluation can take up to 3-4 weeks after receiving the submitted course outlines.
Your Transfer Credit results can be viewed on your UWinsite Student account in your Academic Advising Report or your Unofficial Transcript, after you’ve been activated for registration.
Once you receive your Offer of Admission letter, you’ll want to follow the steps outlined on our Next Steps page including:
If you don’t match the criteria for this application you might find one of these other applications useful.
Land Acknowledgment
The University of Windsor sits on the traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy of First Nations, which includes the Ojibwa, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi. We respect the longstanding relationships with First Nations people in this place in the 100-mile Windsor-Essex peninsula and the straits – les détroits – of Detroit.
