Credit from Nontraditional Sources

Alabama State University will consider for advanced placement or advanced standing credit  appropriate service, coursework and examinations from nontraditional sources

such as active federal military service and service schools, the College Entrance Examination Board’s Advanced Placement Program, the College Level Examination Program (CLEP) and correspondence credits from fully accredited institutions.

No student will be advised or permitted to take either a departmental examination or a CLEP test and use the “passing’’ score as a substitute for enrolling in and satisfactorily completing prescribed curriculum courses unless prior approval to take the test for said purpose is granted by the relevant department chairperson, the dean and the Office of Academic Affairs. Approvals will be granted only in instances where proof can be presented that, by noncredit formal training (i.e., military service), the material prescribed for the course has been mastered by the student. A student may not attempt credit by examination in a field that the student has received college credit for a more advanced course or for a course in which a failing grade has been received.

The university will allow a maximum of 45 semester hours for nontraditional credit (AP, CLEP, etc.). “C’’ -level performance is required as a minimum for award of credit from any academic test.

All requests for credit by examination should be submitted to the Office of Records and Registration in the Student Services Center.