All new students entering the University of Oklahoma for the first time must successfully complete the mandatory student online Sexual Misconduct Awareness training, also known as Title IX hold, at onpoint.ou.edu. You cannot be enrolled until this training is completed.
As a non-degree exchange student, full time enrollment is 12 hours which is typically 4 classes per semester. As an exchange student, you are required to be enrolled full time. All enrollment is done through the Exchange Student adviser.
The OU Course Catalog contains links to coursework offered on the Norman Campus of the University of Oklahoma. We cannot guarantee enrollment in coursework before arrival on campus. As an exchange student, you should be flexible in your course preferences as course offerings are subject to change and enrollment in coursework at both the undergraduate and graduate level is subject to policy requirements at the level of each academic department.
Restrictions may also exist for undergraduate enrollment in coursework in the English Department, the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education and the Price College of Business.
*Graduate coursework is 5000-6000 level classes all require permission from each department and this is requested via the Exchange Student adviser and meet the requirements listed below.
Exchange students may not enroll in graduate level classes numbered 5000 or above unless they have met the Graduate College English language proficiency requirements (paper-based TOEFL 550, iBT TOEFL 79, or 6.5 IELTS) and have obtained written permission from the course instructor. If enrolled in graduate-level courses, exchange students will receive undergraduate credit. They may NOT earn graduate credit for graduate-level courses and they may NOT later apply these credits to a graduate degree at the University of Oklahoma.
Law courses are available to you as an exchange student only if you are a law-degree student at your home institution. The required TOEFL IBT is a 90.
As a condition of maintaining legal status in the U.S., federal regulations require international students participating in reciprocal exchange programs to engage “full time in a prescribed course of study” and to maintain “satisfactory advancement towards the completion of his or her academic program” (22 C.F.R. § 62.23(h((2)(i)). In order to comply with these regulations, an exchange student must be registered in a full-time credit load, be regularly attending and participating in classes, and be making a good faith effort to progress academically in his/her program.
ISS will contact your professors to verify grades and progress in your classes. Failure to progress in your coursework could impact your future studies at the University of Oklahoma.
A record of your grades is called a transcript. All transcripts are letter graded. They can be translated/equated by your home university according to their educational policies.
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (“FERPA”) affords students certain rights with respect to their education records. These rights can be found here: https://www.ou.edu/content/recordsandtranscripts/release_of_information.html. FERPA allows the disclosure of information contained within an exchange student’s education record, without consent of the student, to an exchange student’s home institution.
Accordingly, at the end of each student’s exchange period, the Office of International Services will send, via courier mail, one copy of the exchange student’s OU official transcript to the exchange student’s home institution. Any and all other copies requested by the individual student will be sent via regular mail at their request only. Grades can be viewed online two weeks after finals by logging into the One website.
The University of Oklahoma uses a 4.0 grade point average (GPA) scale. Classes may be graded A-F, S or U, P or NP, or I. These grades may be translated into equivalent grades by your home institution according to their policies. Percentage grades DO NOT appear on an official transcript. For more information on grades, visit the Records and Transcripts Grading page.
A = 4 points B = 3 points C = 2 points D = 1 point F = 0 points
S = Satisfactory U = Unsatisfactory P = Pass NP = No Pass I = Incomplete
