Pennsylvania's Public School Code of 1949 requires the colleges and universities that participate in the commonwealth's Statewide College Credit Transfer System to develop agreements that will allow students to transfer full Associate of Arts (AA) and Associate of Science (AS) degrees into parallel bachelor degree programs at the participating institutions with junior standing.

Once implemented, students will be able to transfer the equivalent of the first two years of a bachelor’s degree to a four-year university and complete the remainder of their degree program in just two more years of full-time study.

Development of these statewide program-to-program articulation agreements began April 30, 2010, with the launch of three pilot articulation projects in Mathematics, Psychology and PreK-4 Education. In February 2011, new committees consisting of faculty and personnel from the institutions were charged with developing similar agreements in ten additional fields of study. Representatives from the participating institutions will continue to develop agreements each semester until all of the programs of study identified by PDE parallel programs of study have an articulated pathway from an AA or AS degree into a bachelor degree.

The full transfer of associate degrees into bachelor degree programs into compatible fields of study will be realized by the fall semester of 2012.