Transfer Credit

Transfer credit is awarded by the CORE Institute according to the rules established by the Florida Board of Massage Therapy.

In order for you to receive transfer credit:

1. The CORE Institute must be provided with a certified official transcript of the courses taken by the student from a state licensed and approved school.
2. The Courses must parallel in content and intensity the courses presently offered at the CORE Institute, as judged by the Institute's Administration.
3. Transfer credit is granted only after the transfer credit candidate has been tested by the CORE Institute for competency in the transfer credit subject.
4. There is a $25 administrative/testing fee for each subject tested.
5. Transfer credit will be granted up to the total number of hours in the tested section.
6. Please note that in some cases, after conversion of the transfer credit hours, the transferred hours may not completely fill the CORE Institute requirement. If this is the case, you may still have to attend a certain number of class hours to fulfill the requirement.

Transfer Credit Conversion Information

Transfer credit reported as clock hours will be converted on an hour to hour basis.
Transfer credit reported as Semester/Quarter credit will be converted using the following formula:
One semester credit is equal to fifteen hours of lecture.
One quarter credit is equal to ten hours of lecture.

* The CORE Institute 650-Hour Professional Massage Therapy Program    currently requires:

To Receive Transfer Credit, you must follow this process:
To begin this process you must have your application already on file at the CORE Institute. Please state that you wish to transfer credit at the time the application is presented.

1. An official certified transcript from your previous school must be mailed directly to the CORE Institute. Please mail it to the attention of the Associate Director. The transcript will be evaluated shortly after receipt thereof.
2. You must meet with either the Associate Director or the Financial Director to receive the results of the transcript evaluation process. Sometimes a phone call may be enough.
3. Transfer credit for subject(s) tested will be placed in your student file. To arrange your test date and time you must call Student Services at (850) 222-8673 between the times of 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Friday, or between the times of 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday to schedule your time.
4. All administrative testing fees must be paid in full prior to taking the tests.
5. The testing results will be reported to you via phone within one week of taking the test.
6. If you receive a passing score on the tests, you will be granted transfer credit. If you do not pass the test, class attendance will be required for that section.

*Formulae provided by the Board of Independent Postsecondary, Vocational, Technical, Trade and Business Schools, Department of Education, The Florida Education Center, Tallahassee, Florida 32399.