What counts
Credits from courses taken while enrolled at Porter, including Porter online courses and (usually) cross-registration and approved study-away that Porter records as resident credit. Transfer credit, credit by exam, and prior-learning credit generally do not count toward residency.
Planning around it
If you're a transfer student, make sure your remaining plan leaves at least the required resident credits — don't try to knock out your last semester entirely at another school. If you study away late, confirm whether that term counts as resident or transfer credit before you go, because it changes the math.
In and around Porter Falls
Curriculum decisions at Porter run through the departments that meet in Founders Hall and the Applied Arts Building, then to Faculty Senate, then to the Provost in Millwright Hall. The pace is deliberately slow and the review calendar is published.
The practical details
Typical rule: At least 30 of your final credits, and a minimum in the major, must be earned at Porter. Why: A Porter degree should reflect substantial work done at Porter, especially in the major field. Affects: Transfer students, students finishing with a study-away term, and anyone hoping to transfer in a large block of late credits. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Office of the Provost (Millwright Hall, Room 300). Call (715) 555–0130 or email provost@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.