Information for Fontbonne University Students

Fontbonne University, our sister Catholic university in the St. Louis area, will cease operations in Summer 2025. At Saint Louis University, we share in the grief experienced by so many at this news. We also share in offering support — both immediate and long-term — to the Fontbonne community, especially its students who will need to finish their degrees at other institutions.

SLU Will Accept All Your Fontbonne Transfer Credit

SLU has committed to academic policy modifications in support of Fontbonne students who transfer to SLU. At an institutional level, SLU will make the following accommodations for students enrolled at Fontbonne in the Spring 2024 term and who transfer to SLU by the Spring 2026 term:

All earned Fontbonne credit will be accepted in transfer to SLU. How the transferred credit applies to SLU degrees will depend on individual transfer course articulations as well as the applicable SLU University Core and academic program requirements.
SLU will significantly reduce its “Academic Residency Requirement” for Fontbonne undergraduate transfers. For those Fontbonne students who transfer to SLU to complete any SLU program other than a designated “Teach Out Program” (see below), SLU will only require a minimum of 12 credits earned at SLU for Fontbonne undergraduate students to be eligible to earn their SLU bachelor’s degrees; all other SLU program and graduation requirements remain in place.
- - Note: Because graduate programs at SLU vary significantly in required credits, decisions about the minimum amount of credit that must be completed at SLU for Fontbonne transfers will be made on a program-by-program basis.

SLU Offers Fontbonne “Teach Out” Programs

SLU has signed a “Teach Out Agreement” with Fontbonne. That agreement contains additional provisions for current Fontbonne students (in good academic and conduct standing) who seek to complete their studies in select, corresponding SLU academic programs:

“Teach Out” students are guaranteed admission* to SLU and do not have to complete full applications.
The remaining degree requirements at SLU for students in “Teach Out” programs are governed by a predetermined program-level articulation agreement addressing all applicable transfer credit.

The following are the currently designated SLU “Teach Out” programs for current Fontbonne students. Links to the details for each "Teach Out" program are provided.

Undergraduate Programs

Current Fontbonne Major	Corresponding SLU "Teach Out" Major	SLU Teach Out Information
Criminal Justice	Criminology and Criminal Justice	Program Information
Dietetics	Nutrition and Dietetics	Program Information
Elementary Education	Elementary Education	Program Information
Medical Laboratory Sciences	Medical Laboratory Science	Program Information
Nutritional Sciences	Nutrition and Dietetics	Program Information
Social Work	Social Work	Program Information
Speech-Language Pathology	Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences	Program Information

Graduate Programs

Current Fontbonne Program	Corresponding SLU "Teach Out" Program	SLU Teach Out Information

Management & Leadership, M.M.L.	Leadership and Organizational Development, M.A.	Program Information

SLU Will Match Your Fontbonne Tuition

SLU guarantees that all students enrolled at Fontbonne in Spring 2024 will, upon initially transferring to SLU at any time through Spring 2026, pay no more per term (or per credit) tuition at SLU than they paid in their final term of enrollment at Fontbonne (after all applicable financial aid was applied, and excluding any summer term or discounted Fontbonne tuition resulting from the closure announcement).

SLU Will Permanently House Your Fontbonne Academic Records/Transcripts

Effective Summer 2025, SLU will be the permanent home of, and provider for, all Fontbonne student academic records. SLU will house all Fontbonne records necessary to produce, and provide all necessary access to, Fontbonne student academic transcripts in perpetuity. This includes the records necessary to support degree verification and related academic records requests. Please see the “Academic Records” FAQ at this Fontbonne web page for more details.

SLU is also now the permanent home for academic records of Cardinal Newman College, which closed in 1985 and for which Fontbonne itself had been the official records custodian. SLU’s Office of the University Registrar has already assumed this responsibility from Fontbonne.

SLU Welcomes You! Contact Us for More Info

We encourage you to schedule a campus visit or meet (in-person or virtually) with Transfer Admission Assistant Director Daniel Wood. Please contact him at 314-977-8273 or daniel.wood@slu.edu.

For additional information regarding the student experience at Saint Louis University, please visit the following web pages:

* For students with a background that includes any collegiate-level academic probation/dismissal or disciplinary dismissal, or for those with any prior adjudicated guilty status or conviction for a felony or misdemeanor, admission is only guaranteed after additional review.