Transitional student status has been instituted by the university to assist students who have changed their minds about their original field of study or who have been judged unlikely to make satisfactory progress in their chosen field. Becoming a Transitional Student gives a student an opportunity to maintain a relationship with the home college while re-orienting academic plans and goals. It also gives a student time to explore his/her options and/or enhance admissibility to another college in the university, or to another institution. Ordinarily, a student will be permitted to register as a Transitional student for no more than one semester. Although, in exceptional circumstances, a student may be allowed to extend the status beyond one semester. A student must obtain the permission of his/her home college Associate Dean to initiate this option.
Transitional student status may be available to students upon the advice of their advisor, or upon their own request. Interested students must make an appointment with the Associate Dean of their home college to discuss this option.
Note: Students at Carnegie Mellon in good academic standing may transfer from one program to another as long as they meet curricular or artistic requirements and as long as there is space in the program into which they wish to transfer.