Ozarks Technical Community College Transfer 2+2 Plans and Transfer Degree Guides
Our Transfer Plans let you start with the end in mind
Start planning your transfer to MSU now. Prepare for a seamless transition from associate’s degree to an MSU bachelor’s degree by using a Transfer 2+2 Plans or Transfer Degree Guides.
Do you already know what your major will be? Check to see if there is a Transfer 2+2 Plan for your major below. That will assist in planning your courses each semester. Talk to your community college Navigator about how to use this plan to guide your course selection.
Don't see a plan listed for your major? Our remaining degrees are available as a Transfer Degree Guide. Each major lists OTC specific courses that will transfer and apply toward your intended MSU major requirement. Talk to your community college Navigator about how to use this plan to guide your course selection or contact an MSU major advisors with questions.
Find your plan or Degree Guide
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Indicates accelerated graduate program available for students in this major.
Indicated program can be completed online.
Indicates a 2+2 Plan outlining eight semesters of coursework.
No icon indicates a Degree Plan that lists all OTC classes that directly transfer to MSU.
All Missouri State University policies regarding courses, programs, program accreditation, academic regulations and degree requirements are applicable regardless of delivery or location.
A
- Accounting
- Agricultural Business (Finance and Management option) (Comprehensive)
- Agricultural Business-Agricultural Enterprise Management (Comprehensive)
- Agricultural Business-Agricultural Marketing and Sales (Comprehensive)
- Agricultural Communications (Comprehensive)
- Agriculture Education (Certifiable Grades 9-12)
- Animal Science (Comprehensive)
- Animal Science for Pre-Veterinary Medicine (Comprehensive)
- Anthropology (Non-Comprehensive)
- Art-3D Studies (Ceramics, Metals and Jewelry, Sculpture) (Comprehensive)
- Art-Computer Animation (Comprehensive)
- Art-Drawing (Comprehensive)
- Art Education (Certifiable Grades K-12)
- Art-New Media (Comprehensive)
- Art-Painting (Comprehensive)
- Art-Photography (Comprehensive)
- Art-Printmaking (Comprehensive)
B
- Biology w/Chemistry Minor (Non-Comprehensive)
- Biology-Environmental Biology and Evolution (Comprehensive)
- Biology-Microbiology and Biotechnology (Comprehensive)
- Biology - Pre-Teacher Education (Comprehensive)
- Biology - Wildlife and Fisheries Biology (Comprehensive)
- Biomedical Sciences-Anatomy and Physiology (Comprehensive)
- Biomedical Sciences-Cell and Molecular Biology (Comprehensive)
- Biomedical Sciences-Human Health Science (Comprehensive)
C
- Career and Technical Education - Business Education (for AA BUS Students)
- Career and Technical Education - Business Education (for AATED students)
- Career and Technical Education - Family and Consumer Sciences Education Option
- Child and Family Development (Child Development option)
- Child and Family Development (Child Life option)
- Child and Family Development (Family Studies option)
- Child and Family Development (Youth Development option)
- Clinical Laboratory Sciences-Medical Technology (Comprehensive)
- Computer Science (Computer Science option with Mathematics minor) (Non-Comprehensive)
- Communication - Communication Studies (Non-Comprehensive)
- Communication Sciences and Disorders-Audiology (Comprehensive)
- Communication Sciences and Disorders-Speech Language Pathology (Comprehensive)
- Community and Regional Planning (Comprehensive)
- Computer Science with Cybersecurity minor (Software Development option)
- Construction Management (Comprehensive)
- Creative Writing (AA in English) (Non-Comprehensive)
- Creative Writing (Non-Comprehensive)
- Criminology (Comprehensive)
- Culture, Literature, and Media - Literature Option (Non-Comprehensive)
- Culture, Literature, and Media - Media Option (Non-Comprehensive)
D
- Dance (Non-Comprehensive major)
- Data Analytics (Comprehensive)
- Design-Graphic Design and Illustration (Comprehensive)
- Design-Graphic Design (Comprehensive)
- Design-Illustration (Comprehensive)
- Design-Sequential Art (Comprehensive)
- Digital Film and Television Production (Comprehensive)
E
- Early Childhood Education
- Economics (Non-Comprehensive)
- Electronic Arts-Audio Studies (Comprehensive)
- Electronic Arts-Computer Animation (Comprehensive)
- Electronic Arts-Interactive New Media Studies (Comprehensive)
- Electronic Arts-Video Studies (Comprehensive)
- Elementary Education
- English Education (Comprehensive)
- Entertainment Management
- Entrepreneurship
- Environmental Plant Science-Crop Science (Comprehensive)
- Environmental Plant Science-Horticulture (Comprehensive)
- Environmental Plant Science-Plant Breeding and Biotechnology (Comprehensive)
- Equine Science (Comprehensive)
F
- Finance (Corporate and Investments option)
- Finance-Financial Planning (Comprehensive)
- Finance-FinTech (Comprehensive)
G
- General Agriculture (Comprehensive)
- General Business
- General Studies
- Geography and Sustainability - Sustainable Development (Comprehensive)
- Geography and Sustainability - Sustainable Watershed Management (Comprehensive)
- Geography and Sustainability - Geography (Comprehensive)
- Geology (Comprehensive)
- Geospatial Sciences (Comprehensive)
- Gerontology (Comprehensive)
- Global Studies (Comprehensive)
H
- Health Services-Clinical Services (Comprehensive)
- Health Services-Health Services (Comprehensive)
- History
- History Education (Comprehensive)
- Hospitality Leadership (Comprehensive)
- Hospitality Leadership-Club Management (Comprehensive)
- Hospitality Leadership-Food and Beverage (Comprehensive)
- Hospitality Leadership-General Operations (Comprehensive)
- Hospitality Leadership-Lodging (Comprehensive)
- Hospitality Leadership-Senior Living (Comprehensive)
- Hospitality Leadership-Tourism (Comprehensive)
I
- Information Technology (Application Development option - AS in Information Technology)
- Information Technology (Cybersecurity option - AS in Information Technology)
- Information Technology (IT Infrastructure option - AS in Information Technology)
- Interior Design (Comprehensive)
- International Business (Comprehensive)
J
- Jazz Performance (Comprehensive)
- Journalism (Non-Comprehensive)
M
- Management (Management and Leadership Track)
- Management (Human Resources Track)
- Marketing (Advertising and Promotion Track)
- Marketing (Marketing Management Track)
- Mathematics
- Modern Language (Non-Comprehensive)
- Modern Language (Teacher Certification) (Non-Comprehensive)
N
- Nursing (Comprehensive)
- Nursing (Completion) (Comprehensive)
- Natural Resources (Comprehensive)
- Natural Resources-Forestry (Comprehensive)
- Nutrition and Dietetics (Comprehensive)
P
- Philosophy (Non-Comprehensive)
- Physical Education (Certifiable Grades K-12)
- Physics-Astronomy and Astrophysics (Comprehensive)
- Physics-Career Prep Physics (Comprehensive)
- Physics-Materials Physics (Comprehensive)
- Physics-Teaching Prep Physics (Comprehensive)
- Professional Writing (Comprehensive)
- Psychology (OTC AA in General Studies)
- Psychology (OTC AA in Behavioral Science)
- Public Relations (Comprehensive)
R
- Radiography-Management (Comprehensive)
- Radiography-Science (Comprehensive)
- Recreation, Sport, and Park Administration (Comprehensive)
- Religious Studies (Non-Comprehensive)
- Risk Management and Insurance-Enterprise Risk Management (Comprehensive)
- Risk Management and Insurance-Insurance (Comprehensive)
S
- Screenwriting and Film Studies (Non-Comprehensive)
- Social Work
- Sociology (Non-Comprehensive)
- Sociology (OTC AAS in Behavioral Health) (Non-Comprehensive)
- Special Education
- Speech and Theatre-Communication (Certifiable 9-12)
- Speech and Theatre-Theatre (Certifiable 9-12)
- Sports Medicine (Comprehensive)
- Supply Chain, Logistics and Operations Management (Comprehensive)
T
- Theatre-Acting
- Theatre-Dance
- Theatre-Design/Technology/Stage Management
- Theatre (Non-Comprehensive)
V
- Visual Art and Culture-Art History and Visual Culture (Non-Comprehensive)
- Visual Art and Culture-Museum Studies (Non-Comprehensive)
- Visual Art and Culture-Studio Art (Non-Comprehensive)
- Vocal Performance (Comprehensive)
W
- Wildlife Conservation and Management
- Wildlife Conservation and Management (Comprehensive)
Note: All College of Education programs are comprehensive, meaning that completion of a minor is not required.
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Please meet with your academic advisor to discuss accelerated graduate program options.
Indicates accelerated graduate program is available for students in this major.
Indicates program can be completed online.No icon indicates a Degree Plan that lists all OTC classes that directly transfer to MSU.
A
- Accounting
- Agricultural Business (Finance and Management option) (Comprehensive)
- Agricultural Business-Agricultural Enterprise Management (Comprehensive)
- Agricultural Business-Agricultural Marketing and Sales (Comprehensive)
- Agricultural Communications (Comprehensive)
- Agriculture Education (Certifiable Grades 9-12)
- Animal Science (Comprehensive)
- Animal Science for Pre-Veterinary Medicine (Comprehensive)
- Anthropology (Non-Comprehensive)
- Art-3D Studies (Ceramics, Metals and Jewelry, Sculpture) (Comprehensive)
- Art-Computer Animation (Comprehensive)
- Art-Drawing (Comprehensive)
- Art Education (Certifiable Grades K-12)
- Art-New Media (Comprehensive)
- Art-Painting (Comprehensive)
- Art-Photography (Comprehensive)
- Art-Printmaking (Comprehensive)
B
- Business Education (for AA BUS students)
- Business Education (for AATED students)
- Biology w/Chemistry Minor (Non-Comprehensive)
- Biology-Environmental Biology and Evolution (Comprehensive)
- Biology-Microbiology and Biotechnology (Comprehensive)
- Biology - Pre-Teacher Education (Comprehensive)
- Biology - Wildlife and Fisheries Biology (Comprehensive)
- Biomedical Sciences-Anatomy and Physiology (Comprehensive)
- Biomedical Sciences-Cell and Molecular Biology (Comprehensive)
- Biomedical Sciences-Human Health Science (Comprehensive)
C
- Child and Family Development (Child Development option)
- Child and Family Development (Child Life option)
- Child and Family Development (Family Studies option)
- Child and Family Development (Youth Development option)
- Clinical Laboratory Sciences-Medical Technology (Comprehensive)
- Communication - Communication Studies (Non-Comprehensive)
- Computer Science (Computer Science option with Mathematics minor) (Non-Comprehensive)
- Computer Science with Cybersecurity minor (Software Development option)
- Communication Sciences and Disorders-Audiology (Comprehensive)
- Communication Sciences and Disorders-Speech Language Pathology (Comprehensive)
- Community and Regional Planning (Comprehensive)
- Construction Management (Comprehensive)
- Creative Writing (AA in English) (Non-Comprehensive)
- Creative Writing (Non-Comprehensive)
- Criminology (Comprehensive)
- Culture, Literature, and Media - Literature Option (Non-Comprehensive)
- Culture, Literature, and Media - Media Option (Non-Comprehensive)
D
- Dance (Non-Comprehensive major)
- Data Analytics (Comprehensive)
- Design-Graphic Design and Illustration (Comprehensive)
- Design-Graphic Design (Comprehensive)
- Design-Illustration (Comprehensive)
- Design-Sequential Art (Comprehensive)
- Digital Film and Television Production (Comprehensive)
E
- Early Childhood Education
- Economics (Non-Comprehensive)
- Electronic Arts-Audio Studies (Comprehensive)
- Electronic Arts-Computer Animation (Comprehensive)
- Electronic Arts-Interactive New Media Studies (Comprehensive)
- Electronic Arts-Video Studies (Comprehensive)
- Elementary Education
- English Education (Comprehensive)
- Entertainment Management
- Entrepreneurship
- Environmental Plant Science-Crop Science (Comprehensive)
- Environmental Plant Science-Horticulture (Comprehensive)
- Environmental Plant Science-Plant Breeding and Biotechnology (Comprehensive)
- Equine Science (Comprehensive)
F
- Family and Consumer Science Education
- Finance (Corporate and Investments option)
- Finance-Financial Planning (Comprehensive)
- Finance-FinTech (Comprehensive)
G
- General Agriculture (Comprehensive)
- General Business
- General Studies
- Gerontology (Comprehensive)
- Geography and Sustainability (Comprehensive)
- Geology (Comprehensive)
- Geospatial Sciences (Comprehensive)
- Global Studies (Comprehensive)
H
- Health Services-Clinical Services (Comprehensive)
- Health Services-Health Services (Comprehensive)
- Hospitality Leadership (Comprehensive)
- Hospitality Leadership-Club Management (Comprehensive)
- Hospitality Leadership-Food and Beverage (Comprehensive)
- Hospitality Leadership-General Operations (Comprehensive)
- Hospitality Leadership-Lodging (Comprehensive)
- Hospitality Leadership-Senior Living (Comprehensive)
- Hospitality Leadership-Tourism (Comprehensive)
I
- Information Technology (Application Development option - AS in Information Technology)
- Information Technology (Cybersecurity option - AS in Information Technology)
- Information Technology (IT Infrastructure option - AS in Information Technology)
- Interior Design (Comprehensive)
- International Business (Comprehensive)
J
- Jazz Performance (Comprehensive)
- Journalism (Non-Comprehensive)
M
- Management (Management and Leadership Track)
- Management (Human Resources Track)
- Marketing (Advertising and Promotion Track)
- Marketing (Marketing Management Track)
- Marketing-Marketing Research (Comprehensive)
- Marketing-Professional Sales (Comprehensive)
- Mathematics
- Mathematics Education (Certifiable Grades 9-12)
- Mechanical Engineering Technology (Comprehensive)
- Merchandising and Fashion Product Development-Fashion Design (Comprehensive)
- Merchandising and Fashion Product Development-Merchandising (Comprehensive)
- Middle School Language Arts
- Middle School Mathematics
- Middle School Science
- Middle School Social Sciences
- Modern Language (Non-Comprehensive)
- Modern Language (Teacher Certification) (Non-Comprehensive)
- Modern Language-Applied Business (Comprehensive)
- Modern Language-Second Language (Comprehensive)
- Modern Language-Translation (Comprehensive)
- Music Composition (Comprehensive)
- Music Instrumental (Comprehensive)
- Music Keyboard (Comprehensive)
- Musical Theatre (Comprehensive)
- Music (Non-Comprehensive major)
- Music Education-Instrumental (Certifiable Grades K-12)
- Music Education-Vocal (Certifiable Grades K-12)
N
- Nursing (Comprehensive)
- Natural Resources (Comprehensive)
- Natural Resources-Forestry (Comprehensive)
- Nutrition and Dietetics (Comprehensive)
P
- Philosophy (Non-Comprehensive)
- Physical Education (Certifiable Grades K-12)
- Physics-Astronomy and Astrophysics (Comprehensive)
- Physics-Career Prep Physics (Comprehensive)
- Physics-Materials Physics (Comprehensive)
- Physics-Teaching Prep Physics (Comprehensive)
- Political Science (Non-Comprehensive)
- Professional Writing (Comprehensive)
- Psychology (OTC AA in General Studies)
- Psychology (OTC AA in Behavioral Science)
R
- Radiography-Management (Comprehensive)
- Radiography-Science (Comprehensive)
- Recreation, Sport, and Park Administration (Comprehensive)
- Religious Studies (Non-Comprehensive)
- Risk Management and Insurance-Enterprise Risk Management (Comprehensive)
- Risk Management and Insurance-Insurance (Comprehensive)
S
- Screenwriting and Film Studies (Non-Comprehensive)
- Sociology (Non-Comprehensive)
- Sociology (OTC AAS in Behavioral Health) (Non-Comprehensive)
- Social Work
- Special Education
- Speech and Theatre-Communication (Certifiable 9-12)
- Speech and Theatre-Theatre (Certifiable 9-12)
- Sports Medicine (Comprehensive)
- Supply Chain, Logistics and Operations Management (Comprehensive)
T
- Theatre-Acting
- Theatre-Dance
- Theatre-Design/Technology/Stage Management
- Theatre (Non-Comprehensive)
V
- Visual Art and Culture-Art History and Visual Culture (Non-Comprehensive)
- Visual Art and Culture-Museum Studies (Non-Comprehensive)
- Visual Art and Culture-Studio Art (Non-Comprehensive)
- Vocal Performance (Comprehensive)
W
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If you enter Missouri State having completed an Associate of Arts degree or the Missouri 42 credit hour general education block (Core 42), you will have met our general education requirements.
This information is provided as a guide only. Students are strongly encouraged to meet with their major-specific MSU transfer advisor early in their education to discuss the most appropriate coursework for their intended MSU major, MSU degree requirements, etc.
Resources
We’ve got resources to help you make the most of the transfer experience.
Need Assistance? We can help.
Located in OTC Student Services, on both the Springfield and Richwood Valley campuses, the MSU information desk is a great resource for learning more about transferring to Missouri State. Our OTC-MSU transfer specialist, Donna Rebmann, is on the Springfield campus every day and at Richwood Valley on Thursday morning.
Visit with Donna Rebmann at the start and throughout your OTC education to discuss MSU degree requirements, specific OTC courses that will transfer and help meet your intended MSU major, transfer scholarships, the application process and more.
Tips from the help desk
- You can apply to Missouri State up to a year in advance.
- Planning to start in summer or fall? Apply by February of your last semester at OTC.
- Planning to start in spring? Apply by September of your last semester at OTC.
- Review our academic scholarship deadlines.
- Establish a relationship with an OTC advisor and with an MSU advisor in your desired academic program.
Registration at MSU
As a transfer friendly institution, new transfer students are allowed to register with current MSU students based on the number of credit hours completed in transfer.