HAVE YOU RECEIVED ALL POSSIBLE TRANSFER CREDITS?
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Students may be awarded credit for prior educational experiences in which
college-level learning may be verified either through documentation or
through assessment. A maximum of 45 credit hours may be transferred for any
one degree—of which not more than 30 credits may have been earned through
nontraditional or noncollegiate sources.
These may include:
(1) transfer of credits from other colleges or universities (301-322-0803);
(2) nontraditional credits for various educational and training activities conducted by such noncollegiate organizations as the military, businesses and government agencies, and proprietary schools (301-322-0803);
(3) credit through examinations: College Board’s Advance Placement Program (AP) available to high school students as well as College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) available to adults with expertise in a subject matter area (301-322-0803);
(4) challenge examinations or students’ prior mastery of the content of certain courses as tested and graded by college faculty members and administered by the Testing Center (301-322-0652);
(5) Prior Learning Assessment Network (PLAN) by portfolio or evidence of adult learners’ personal and professional experiences that reflect a mastery of college-level subjects (301-322-0437); and
(6) Tech Prep Programs (including College and Career Transitions Institute Program) or county high school students’ successful completion of articulated tech prep programs while in high school (301-322-0803).