The Special Students Program

Undergraduate Visiting Students

You may be admitted to the Special Students Program as a nonresidential Undergraduate Visiting Student:

• if you are currently enrolled in a bachelor’s degree program at another college or university, and
• if you are in good academic and disciplinary standing; or
• if you have been admitted as a degree candidate elsewhere and have permission from the school to which you have been admitted to begin your work at Columbia.

Admission as a Visiting Student is permitted for two terms of study, with continuation into the second term contingent on successful completion of the first. It is not normally possible to remain as a Visiting Student beyond two terms except in unusual circumstances. Visiting Students may subsequently apply to become degree candidates in one of the degree-granting schools of the University.

All students be advised that Columbia's School of General Studies will not accept the transfer of more than 15 points of credit towards the B.A. or B.S. for work completed as a nondegree student at Columbia.

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