You can only transfer credits for a PhD if your masters work did not lend you a masters...ie. where I come from you can enter a masters program and before finishing it you can apply to transfer to the PhD program (without graduating the masters). You cannot by any means use you masters work as credit to a PhD in any other way. This would be seen as academic misconduct and CHEATING.
Would be nice if I could not have to take any courses in PhD or teach and tutor eh...
You'll find that the the situation varies quite a lot from field to field and country to country. What you state is true in some cases, but by no means true in all.
It's typically 30 credits for semester programs and 45 credits for quarter programs.
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