Policies & Procedures

CLEP/DANTES

To receive credits by exams, the following rules apply:

• Only currently enrolled students receive these credits. No credits are awarded for an examination if the student has already earned credit in a duplicate course.
• College Level Exam Program (CLEP) and Defense Activity for Non- Traditional Educational Support (DANTES) exams will be evaluated by guidelines set by the American Council on Education (ACE). Examination performances are graded as pass or fail and are not computed into the student’s grade point average. Since some two- and four-year colleges and universities do not accept CLEP credit, students should contact the college to which they are transferring for more information.
• No credits from the CLEP General Examination are applied to the Associate of Arts degree, the Associate of Sciences degree or the Associate in Applied Science-T degree.
• Credits earned in the Freshman English Subject Examination are accepted at the discretion of individual academic divisions. Students should contact the appropriate dean before taking the examination.
• Subject to approval by the chief academic officer, up to 30 credits from the CLEP exam may be applied to any area of the Associate of General Studies Degree.
• Certain areas of the CLEP exam may be used as elective credit to fulfill requirements for the Associate of Technical Arts degree, including five credits of English Composition, Mathematics, Humanities and Social Science.