I’m from London and just started at Northeastern, but I’m going to be back home for Summer. I was looking at the LSE summer school and I really wanna take a couple of courses there. Northeastern offers a study abroad option for the summer school but there’s no way I’m going to pay Northeastern’s ridiculous $11,000 for two classes when I can pay around £3000 directly to LSE for the same thing. Therefore I was wondering if I could potentially cut Northeastern out of the equation, but still receive the transfer credit.
I can’t see how technically it would be breaking any rules given that Northeastern’s transfer credit guideline says that one can take classes outside of NEU if the course is not offered at Northeastern (of which many of the LSE courses are not). Not sure how Northeastern can justify trying to stop me from taking an independent summer school which they evidently offer credit for, just to squeeze some more cash out of me.
The transfer credits are all on the GEO Course Equivalency Database, but I don’t think they’re on the general transfer credit database. Not sure what this means about the ability/ease to transfer credits
As a related question, can I only take one of the general ‘elective’ courses per subject - for example the general POLS 3990 elective that is given for any 3000 level course that’s not offered at Northeastern?
Cheers for any responses, I actually emailed my advisor as well with all these questions but he’s bloody useless and his reply rate is pathetic.