Workforce Courses (vocational / technical credit)

In addition to coursework parallel to the first two years of university study, community colleges offer curricula designed to provide students with immediately marketable career skills.

Such workforce (also known as “occupational,” “technical,” or “vocational”) courses are not designed for transfer into university curricula and, with only a few exceptions, are nontransferable at UT Austin.

Community college workforce courses are organized statewide in the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board's Workforce Education Course Manual (WECM). Courses with the following designations generally do not transfer to UT Austin and are not recommended for prospective transfer students:

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Workforce Course Prefixes at Texas Community Colleges
ABDR ACNT AERM AERO AGAH AGCR AGEQ AGME AGMG AIRP AQCL ARCE ARCT ARTC ARTT ARTV ATRN AUCT AUMT AVIM AVNC BARB BIOM	BITC BMGT BNKG BSKL BTND BUSA BUSG CBFM CDEC CETT CHEF CHHS CHLT CJCR CJLE CJSA CMDR CMSW CNBT CNSE COMG CPMT CPTR	CREX CRFT CRPT CRTG CRTR CSIR CSME CTEC CTMT CULA CVIR CVOP CVTT DAAC DEMR DFTG DHYG DITA DLBT DMSO DNTA DSAE DSVT	ECRD EDTC EECT EEIR EGRT EHKP ELMT ELPT ELTN EMAP EMSP ENDT ENGG ENTC EPCT ETWR FCEL FDNS FDST FIRS FIRT FITT FLMC	FMKT FMLD FPTA FRNL FRST FSHD FSHN GAME GERS GISC GRPH HALT HAMG HART HEMR HITT HLAB HMSY HPRS HRGY HRMO HRPO HUWC	HYDR IBUS IEIR IFWA IMED IMRT INCR INDS INEW INME INMT INSR INTC IRAD ITCC ITDF ITMC ITMT ITNW ITSC ITSE ITSW ITSY	LAWT LBRA LCFT LGLA LMGT LNWK LOTT LTCA MAIR MAMT MBST MCHN MDCA MDDT METL MFGT MLAB MRIT MRKG MRMT MRTS MSSG MSST	MTRC MUSB MUSC MUSP NANO NDTE NMTT NUCP NUPC NURA OPTS OSHT OTHA PBAD PBHL PFPB PHRA PHTC PLAB PLTC PMHS POFI POFL	POFM POFT PPRT PRCD PRFS PSGT PSTR PSYT PTAC PTHA PTRT QCTC RADR RADT RBPT RBTC RDCS RECP RECT RELE RNSG RSPT	RSTO RTVB SCIT SCWK SEST SLNG SLPS SMER SMFT SPCR SPNL SRGT SRVY TECM TRVM UPHL VHPA VNSG VTHT WDWK WIND WLDG

Selected RNSG (Nursing) courses transfer because they are cross-listed in the Lower-Division Academic Course Guide Manual (ACGM, the academic counterpart to WECM) as credit intended for university transfer.

Selected CDEC, DFTG, INEW, ITSC, ITSE, ITSW, MUSC, MUSP, or SLNG courses transfer because their content is generally similar to subjects offered in some UT Austin academic departments. In these isolated cases, credit transfers as generic lower-division semester hours in an appropriate department and is not assigned a specific UT course number. Degree applicability of such transfer credit is entirely at the discretion of the student's academic dean's office.

Transferability or nontransferability of workforce courses at a Texas community college can be confirmed by searching UT's ATE System, in which they usually are listed by a single entry (e.g. “WLDG 000000”) indicating all courses with a given prefix are nontransferable.

• Government courses
• Core Curriculum credit
• Calculus courses
• Introductory Biology courses
• E 316K equivalents
• Substantial Writing Component/Writing Flag credit
• Computer Science & Management Information Systems credit
• MIS 310 equivalents
• Credit-by-Exam awarded at other institutions
• Military training & experience
• Common Transfer Credit Issues (home)

• Our Transfer Guides for Austin Community College and other Texas community colleges recommend coursework prospective transfer students should take to apply toward specific UT Austin degree plans.
• The Automated Transfer Equivalency (ATE) system provides interactive access to our database of more than 250,000 transfer credit evaluations for current and past courses at universities and community colleges throughout Texas.
• The Interactive Degree Audit (IDA) system enables prospective transfer students and UT students studying away from UT to estimate the degree applicability of coursework taken at other institutions.
• UT Austin's transfer credit policies are published in the General Information catalog.