CHEA Statement to the Community: Transfer
and the Public Interest

Higher Education Transfer Alliance (HETA)

The Higher Education Transfer Alliance (HETA) is a voluntary group of accredited institutions that are concerned with the importance of student mobility, enhancing success in transfer of credit, and affirming the responsibility and prerogative of individual institutions with respect to acceptance of transfer credits. HETA is a Web-based directory of colleges and universities that is open to all institutions that are accredited by an organization recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) or the United States Department of Education (USDE). Membership in HETA is entirely voluntary. HETA is not intended to and will not constrain institutional freedom or prerogatives with respect to acceptance of transfer credit.

What is HETA?
Designed by CHEA, the HETA directory can be used by students and the public to find institutions with transfer practices consistent with the four criteria in the CHEA Statement to the Community: Transfer and Public Interest. The directory also provides links to these institutions so that students and others can review a specific institution's transfer policies and practice.

If an Institution is in HETA, What Does This Tell Me?
An institution's membership in HETA tells you that its transfer decisions are not made solely on the basis of the accredited status of a sending institution and that the institution has agreed at least to consider transfer requests from other institutions. Each HETA member institution has an interest in cooperative efforts to assure and enhance student mobility.

What if an Institution is not in HETA?
The institution has determined, as of this time, not to become part of the transfer alliance. If an accredited institution does decide to join HETA, it will be added to the directory.

What Does HETA NOT Do?
HETA does not assure that transfer requests from one HETA institution will be accepted by another HETA institution. It does not, as of this date, include all institutions that might accept your transfer credit. HETA is voluntary and, for example, an institution may not yet have chosen to join HETA. HETA does not make judgments about the academic quality of individual institutions.

Only institutions can make transfer decisions. HETA does not make transfer decisions. CHEA does not make transfer decisions. Accrediting organizations do not make transfer decisions.