UIS
Undergraduate Transfer Admissions
Bucaramanga
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Dates
18
Friday
October
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF APPLICATIONS
Applies for the first academic period of 2025.
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18
Friday
October
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF APPLICATIONS
Applies for the First academic period of 2025.
Right to
Transference
This right may be exercised under the following conditions:
- When the program to be pursued at UIS is the same as the one being studied by the person requesting the transfer.
- When the objectives, content and duration of the programs are equivalent to those developed at UIS.
- When the UIS has availability of places in the career and level requested.
In the following cases will be processed:
- By individual request.
- By authorization of the ICFES, when it orders the closure or suspension of a program in another institution, for reasons other than low academic level or indiscipline.
- Through an inter-institutional agreement with the UIS.
Please
Note
- The program to be pursued at UIS is the same as the one being studied by the person requesting the transfer.
- The objectives, content and duration of the programs are equivalent to those developed at UIS.
- The UIS has availability of places in the career and level requested.
- Students coming from foreign universities, who wish to make use of the right to transfer at UIS, must also process the homologation of their studies directly with the university in accordance with the provisions of Article 62 of Law 962 of July 8, 2005.
- Once the Admissions Committee has received the transfer request, it will send it to the Coordinator of the respective career for the equivalency study. The Coordinator will have two (2) weeks to return it to the Admissions Committee with his/her opinion.
- Attention: Equivalencies will not be granted to courses whose objectives, content and duration are lower than those established by the University in the respective academic program”.
- Any transfer acceptance by the Admissions Committee must be ratified by the Faculty Council corresponding to the degree program.
- Once the applicant is authorized to enter, by transfer to the UIS, he/she will not be able to request new equivalents for subjects not accepted.
- Upon approval of the transfer, the accepted courses will be noted on the student’s resume. The student will take his or her first academic period at UIS regardless of the level of study in which he or she is placed, without a cumulative weighted average. The cumulative weighted average after that first period will be calculated on the academic results obtained by the student at UIS. The cumulative weighted average for purposes of incentives and conditionality will be calculated taking into account only the subjects taken at UIS.
Current
Regulations
Transfer
Process
- Written request to the Admissions Committee, which must be submitted no less than two (2) months prior to the end of an academic term.
- Proof of payment for the study of the transfer request – Proof of payment for the study of the transfer request – Proof of payment for the study of the transfer request $63.400.
- Certificate of grades obtained by the applicant, in each and every one of the subjects taken (passed or failed) at the University of origin. The certificate must expressly specify that all the subjects taken by the applicant are included.
- Certified copy of the contents of the subjects taken by the transfer applicant.
- Certificate issued by the competent academic authority on the applicant’s conduct at the University of origin and with express notation that the withdrawal was not due to poor academic performance.
- Health certificate issued by the physician of Bienestar Universitario of the UIS. Modified by Law 962 of July 8, 2005, article 62.
- Proof of the Resolution of approval of the Program of the University of origin, issued in this one”.
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Attention: These documents must be duly authenticated. The Directorate of Admissions and Academic Records will verify the authenticity of these documents; the lack of a document or proven falsity in any of them will invalidate the application.
Reasons for
Denial
The Admissions Committee may deny transfer of any of the following reasons:
- Modified by Agreement No. 080 of 2011. The applicant for a place in the transfer modality must certify, for the respective study of the application, that in the university of origin, he/she has obtained a cumulative weighted average equal to or higher than 4.0 and a Passing Rate equal to or higher than 0.90, according to the calculation system of the UIS.
- The number of quotas to be assigned to this admission modality, according to the capacity and availability of the same in each academic program it administers.
- When the number of Academic Work Units accepted constitutes less than 30% (thirty percent) or more than 70% (seventy percent) of those required to obtain the corresponding professional degree at UIS.
- When the transfer is requested for a program different from the one the applicant is enrolled in.
- When the medical examination for admission proves illness or physical or mental impediment that prevents him/her from performing normally in the community.
- When the applicant’s record of conduct does not guarantee a good performance at the University.
- When the applicant has not obtained a score in the state exam, equal or higher than the cut-off score of the last admission process, in the career to which the student is applying.
Do you need more information?
Contact us
Direction of Admissions and Academic Records
Telephone: +57 (607) 634 4000
Extension: 2925 – 2225 – 2131
E-mail: inscripciones@uis.edu.co
Campus Central UIS
Bucaramanga, Santander
Carrera 27 calle 9
Ciudad Universitaria
Edificio de Administración 3
Bucaramanga, Santander
Carrera 27 calle 9
Ciudad Universitaria
Edificio de Administración 3
Office Hours:
Monday to Friday
7:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon
2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.