M.A. Programs That Accept A Lot of Transfer Credits?

[margrett]

I have at least 20 graduate credits (from two different schools) and am looking to apply these to a master's program. I found one Master of Liberal Arts program that will take up to 12 credits. Anyone know of schools/programs that allow transfers of more than 6 or 12 credits? These classes are international policy with titles like "Globalization" and "Current Issues in the Middle East".

[brent09]

I would think that to be very, very rare. Programs/schools don't want to confer degrees based on coursework undertaken at other institutions. If you transfer more than 12 credit hours, that is upwards of a third of most programs' credit hour requirements. Anything much over that and you'd have as much credit from without as from within, in which case why should any University be the one to confer the degree?

In general, I would advise you to choose the school or program that will get you where you need to be, not just whichever one is willing to accept all of your graduate coursework. Otherwise you might end up doing another 18+ credit hours for a degree you neither want nor need...