• Career degree programs let you earn your degree from Pellissippi State and then pursue your career
• Transfer degree programs let you earn a degree from Pellissippi State that is designed to transfer to a four-year or other institution

• Transfer Guides are special agreements with specific higher education institutions that we’ve worked out for you to make transferring credits easier. If your degree program has a Transfer Guide, you can transfer your credits seamlessly to that other institution.
  
  
• Tennessee Transfer Pathways are a type of transfer program. Specifically, you can transfer TTP concentrations (and there are lots) to any other Tennessee Board of Regents institution, public state university or University of Tennessee institution.
  
  
• General Transfer Degrees are flexible transfer paths that let you take the classes that will fit your intended major at another institution. This is a great deal, but there’s important fine print — you are responsible for ensuring that all the credits you choose to take will transfer and are appropriate for your major. We’re happy to help you, but the responsibility is yours.
  
  
• Tennessee Independent Colleges and Universities Association pathways help you seamlessly transfer credits to private or independent four-year institutions in Tennessee. TICUA pathways might be fully transferable or transferable with modifications.

• Teaching – If you’re an education student, you have special advising requirements. All education students — in our Associate of Science in Teaching, Early Childhood Education and General Transfer Degree programs — go to one place for advising. Contact Cindy Sauer for all the details.

• Nursing – To enter Pellissippi State’s Nursing program, you must apply to the competitive program after you’ve been accepted to Pellissippi State. Additionally, Nursing students have unique advising requirements once they’re accepted into the program. Most students must complete pre-nursing prerequisite courses before they apply for the Nursing program. Speak to an advisor for more details.

• Cohorts – Some Transfer degree programs are offered as Guided Pathway Cohorts, which means they are block-scheduled. If you’re a cohort student, you have special advising requirements. All cohort students go to one place for advising. Contact Celeste Evans for all the details.

If you have tried college before, with perhaps not-so-great results, Academic Fresh Start can help you start over by calculating your GPA and credit hours toward graduation only on courses for which you have earned a “C” or above. You have to meet certain qualifications and apply to take advantage of Academic Fresh Start.

Prior Learning Assessment, orPLA, means that you can earn college credit for your life experience, military service, previous career and even volunteer work.

Speak with your advisor if you’re interested in Academic Fresh Start or PLA.

Once you’ve met with an advisor, he or she will send you instructions for how to register for classes in myPellissippi. Your advisor will send you instructions for how to register through myPellissippi. Once you’re registered for classes, remember to confirm your schedule and pay any fees before the appropriate deadline each semester.

Everyone must confirm their attendance. Even if you receive financial aid that covers tuition and fees you must confirm your schedule, or it will be deleted.

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