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Advising & Registration Center General Education Requirements (GERs)

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Purpose of GERs

Courses that fulfill GERs

Lower-division GERs

The WSU lower-division General Education Requirements are considered fulfilled if you have successfully completed an approved direct transfer degree at a Washington community college or one of the following degrees outside Washington: an Oregon Associate of Arts Oregon Transfer (AAOT) degree, Arizona (AAGR degree), California (IGETC degree), Hawaii (transfer degree), and Idaho (Associate of Arts degree).

List of approved AA/AS Direct Transfer Degrees

If you plan to take a course at another institution to fulfill a General Education Requirement at Washington State University, contact your DDP academic advisor prior to enrolling in that course.

Upper-division GERs

The requirements for Writing in the Major, Tier III (capstone) courses, and the Writing Portfolio (considered upper-division GERs), and any college or program requirements must be met by all students at WSU; approved transfer degrees do not fulfill these requirements.

Your GERs

The specific general education requirements you must fulfill, depends on when you formally began your college education:

• Began college fall 1995 and after
• Began college fall 1993 through spring 1995
• Entered WSU as a freshman fall 1991 through spring 1993
• Began college before fall 1991 (or entered WSU as a transfer student before fall 1993)