Undergraduate Credit Expiration?

[polly_mer]

Is the situation typically the same for Masters degree programs (let's say Masters in Education) or it is course/degree specific, like the history vs calc. example?

Transferring graduate credits between programs is often quite difficult. 

I don't know about credit expiration, but it's not rare to have a time limit on completing a given program.  Time out and you're starting over at some other institution with possibly zero transferred credits.

[wareagle]

Is the situation typically the same for Masters degree programs (let's say Masters in Education) or it is course/degree specific, like the history vs calc. example?

In my experience, grad credits have a definite shelf life, seven to ten years or so.  Then students must re-validate.

[Vkw10]

Is the situation typically the same for Masters degree programs (let's say Masters in Education) or it is course/degree specific, like the history vs calc. example?

I agree with Polly and wareagle, most programs are much less flexible about older graduate credits. Some programs will let you revalidate under very limited circumstances. For example, at my last university, credits toward a masters had to be taken within six years, but you could revalidate up to six credits that were not more than seven years old if you had been continuously enrolled by paying a fee and passing the final from most recent offering of the course.

[apl68]

Is the situation typically the same for Masters degree programs (let's say Masters in Education) or it is course/degree specific, like the history vs calc. example?

I agree with Polly and wareagle, most programs are much less flexible about older graduate credits. Some programs will let you revalidate under very limited circumstances. For example, at my last university, credits toward a masters had to be taken within six years, but you could revalidate up to six credits that were not more than seven years old if you had been continuously enrolled by paying a fee and passing the final from most recent offering of the course.

Sounds like the experience I ran into in library school.  I had completed my course work for an MLS, but was unable to do a practicum because there was nobody around to do a practicum with (I was already in charge of the largest public library for 40 miles around, such as it was).  Between that and personal matters I was out of school for a couple of years.  When I tried to come back, I found that my earlier course work was going out of date as fast as I would have been able to retake it.  I finally just started over from scratch at a different distance-ed program.