1. The Chengdu American Center for Study Abroad is formed by a consortium of accredited American universities which offer both summer and semester courses from their official catalogs, and which are open to all American and international students, not just Chinese international students returning home for the summer; G-MEO's Shanghai Center falls under this consortium agreement for its programs.

2. While the majority of the courses for our summer program are offered by the School of Record that issues the transcript for the program, any course offered by an American member university in the consortium must be pre-approved by the Academic Steering Committee  (ASC) of the consortium and fully articulated among consortium members before it can be offered;

3. Our program requires all applicants to have their chosen courses pre-approved by their academic advisor at his/her home university. Our on-campus director will work with each applicant to secure the pre-approval before his/her application can be completed.

*Students applying for our study-abroad programs and wishing to take for-credit courses are advised that G-MEO cannot guarantee, or be responsible for, successful transfer of course credits to their home institutions.  Home institutions may sometimes decline to accept transfers of course credits for a number of reasons, including policies that do not provide for pre-approval of course credits offered at other schools.  Students must understand that it is their sole responsibility to apply to their home institutions for approval of successful transfer of credits regarding courses they wish to take.  Students registering for courses for which they have no assurance of credit transferability to their home institutions do so at their own financial risk.

So far, G-MEO courses have course pre-approval and transfer records of following schools:

• American University
• Case Western Reserve University
• Emerson College
• Georgetown University
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Indiana University Bloomington
• James Madison University
• Lehigh University
• New Jersey Institute of Technology
• Northeastern University
• McMaster University
• Miami University
• Ohio State University
• Penn State University
• Purdue University
• Syracuse University
• Skidmore College
• Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
• Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
• Stevens Institute of Technology
• Stony Brook University
• Rutgers University
• University of Massachusetts--Amherst
• University of Michigan
• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• University of California, Davis
• University of Colorado Boulder
• University of Denver
• University of Georgia
• University of Maryland
• University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• Virginia Tech
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

For more course equivalence and course approval cases, please contact us.

Upon successful completion of the program, one copy of the official transcript from Fairleigh Dickinson University will be mailed to the student's home institution or other location required by the student. It will be the student's responsibility to communicate with the related office of their home university in order to complete the credit transfer process. Please note that different universities have different procedures/steps to be taken to complete the transfer process for credits earned outside of the university. Additionally, different universities will have different policies on whether the grades the student earns during a summer program will count as letter grades (ex. A, B, C, etc.), or if they will count as Pass/Fail courses. Students should consult the registrar's office for more information.