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CLEP Examinations


 

CLEP General Examinations

A student may obtain credit which will be assigned to one or more of the General Education Divisions by obtaining a satisfactory score on the appropriate College Level Examination Program (CLEP) for Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences and History. Washburn does not award credit for either the CLEP English or Mathematics General Examinations. The CLEP General Examinations are designed to award credit to students entering the University at the Freshman level. Therefore, a student must take the CLEP General Examination prior to his or her first collegiate semester of enrollment in any courses in that division. A student who has attempted credit in any one of the General Education Divisions-Humanities, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and History-either at Washburn or another university is not eligible to receive credit from the CLEP General Examination for that division.

Four semester hours of credit are awarded for each of the three CLEP General Examinations (Humanities, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and History) which is passed with a score at or above the 50th percentile. No credit is granted and no entry is made on the college transcript for scores below the 50th percentile. The CLEP General Examinations do not require prior departmental approval.

 

CLEP Subject Examinations

Some of the CLEP Subject Examinations are ac­cepted by Washburn as a means of obtaining credit for specific courses. These examinations require that the student gain approval of the appropriate Washburn de­partment prior to taking the CLEP Subject Examination. Each department determines if the examination is ac­ceptable and designates the score level which is required for awarding credit.

A student who has attempted credit in the course to be fulfilled by the CLEP Subject Examination either at Washburn or another university is not eligible to re­ceive credit with the CLEP Subject Examination for that course. There is no entry in the college transcript for scores which the appropriate academic department has determined to be unsatisfactory.