FROM DAY ONE WE SUPPORT OUR TRANSFER STUDENTS.

At UMBC, you’re a part of our community from the moment you arrive on campus. But we also know that our transfer students have unique needs. That’s why we’ve created a variety of services, events, and organizations tailor-made for transfer students.

Welcoming Transfer Students To Campus

We know that you’ll have needs and questions that are a bit different from entering first-year students, so we start your time at UMBC with a variety of special transfer programs, including:

Transfer-only Orientation programs

Dawg Days: Transfer Experience

Transfer Welcome Day

At each program, you’ll get the chance to get to know UMBC and your fellow transfer students, ensuring that you start your time here off on the right foot.

Transfer Seminars

At UMBC, we offer unique courses that help incoming transfer students in their first semester navigate a new university. Created at the request of our current transfer students, these courses will help you connect quickly with your major department and move forward with your academic and co-curricular planning to ensure you’re ready for the job market.

Transfer Student Network

Adjusting to a new campus can be difficult. Fortunately, the Transfer Student Network (TSN) is here to help you. Membership includes monthly 1:1 mentor check-ins, free events and trips, opportunities to meet other transfers, and access to campus resources. We also offer special transfer student workshops that cover topics like:

Transfer Hacks

Speed Networking

How Not to Waste Your Time

Travel Like a Transfer

Academic Advising 101

JOIN OUR T.E.A.M.

The Transfer Engagement and Mentoring (T.E.A.M.) program is dedicated to increasing the persistence and retention of underrepresented male students at UMBC, with emphasis on black men. T.E.A.M. emphasizes mentorship and creating a comfortable environment in which students of color can have fun, discuss important issues, motivate each other, and find success.

Tau Sigma National Honor Society

This honor society was created specifically for transfer students to recognize and promote their academic excellence and involvement. Our UMBC chapter provides a chance to bond with other transfer students through networking and social events.

Commuter Lounge

Many of our transfer students choose to live off-campus, so we‘ve created a lounge space to give you a home away from home while you’re on campus. We can also help you secure study space in the library or a locker in the Retriever Activities Center if you need a place to store your stuff while you’re here.

Nepali Student Association

At UMBC, you’ll find a wide array of student organizations focused on different activities and interests. The Nepali Student Organization is one of our many cultural student organizations. It’s focused on teaching people about and celebrating Nepal and Nepali culture at UMBC and beyond. Throughout the year, the NSA hosts events like Nepali festival celebrations and cultural nights.