Credit Transfer

Why transfer credits to Cesar Vallejo College?

CVC welcomes applications from students who have attended or are currently attending other universities or colleges, that is why we offer a consistent policy with flexible transferability of credits based on comparability and applicability of specific courses.

Obtain your degree faster

Apply to have your relevant credits, work and life experience evaluated for earning credits.

Save money

For every earned credit, you save money on tuition and fees.

More flexibility

Flexible scheduling, including weekends.

Personalized support

Our admission staff will guide you through the transfer process.

Take the next step

Cesar Vallejo College offers three credit validation options:

Students transferring courses from a previously attended institution must maintain a 2.0 or above, on a 4.0 scale and must have received a minimum of “C” or its equivalent for acceptance. No credit is given for internship/co-op courses, or for academic courses with pass/fail or satisfactory/unsatisfactory grades. Student must obtain a minimum of 15 required general education credit hours at Cesar Vallejo College. These courses will be evaluated on course equivalency to determine relevancy and fulfillment of curriculum objective within Cesar Vallejo College. The institution from which the student is requesting the transfer must be accredited by the United States Department of Education.

If applicant attended or is a graduate of a foreign institution, all course work from the foreign institution must be evaluated for U.S. institutional equivalency. The official evaluation must be sent directly from the evaluation service. For evaluation, please contact a member agency of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services such as:

Josef Silny & Associates, Inc.
Consultores Internacionales de Educación
7101 SW Avenida 102a
Miami, FL 33173
(305) 273-1616
www.jsilny.com

The process to transfer credits must be completed and approved prior to the first day of class. Transfer of credit may not exceed 75% of any program’s total number of credits.

Conversion of Clock Hours for Credit Transfer

Courses in clock hours are evaluated using the following formulas:

15 lecture clock hours = 1 credit hour
30 laboratory clock hours = 1 credit hour
45 externship clock hours = 1 credit hour
The credit validation for prior learning is the academic credit granted for the knowledge or skills that you have acquired through your life experience, job training, workshops, seminars or other experiences. Your learning throughout life can translate into academic credits at CVC.

CVC offers the Challenge Exam and Portfolio Assessment, designed to translate your professional skills and life history into academic credits.

Through the Challenge Exams, you can take the equivalent of an end-of-course exam and receive credit if you pass. For the courses that apply, CVC prepares and administers an exam or evaluation appropriate for the subject. Some courses are excluded.

Through the CVC Portfolio evaluation, you can provide documentation and a written description of the experience and learning aligned to each outcome to validate your knowledge of the subjects covered by the course you are trying to get credits for. Documentation is understood as the specific evidence that learning was acquired through experience. Written documentation supplements this evidence. CVC provides guidelines for the preparation of the Portfolio of previous learning.

CVC determines on an individual basis the amount of credit based on prior learning that can be granted. This determination is based on an examination of the student’s previous learning portfolio. In no case will credit for prior learning be granted that exceeds 30 credits for a 120-credit program, or 15 credits for a 60-credit program. Credits earned for prior learning are in addition to any credits you may earn through transfer of credits from any other school

Credit validation by exam, or also known as College Level Examination Program (CLEP) is a way to obtain academic credits for subjects that have not been studied on the university campus, but have been mastered by other means (through of independent study, job training, internships, cultural activities, or previous courses) passing the exams offered by the College Board, which administers the CLEP tests.

Benefits:

CLEP exams provide an excellent opportunity to earn college credits.
It allows you to save money on tuition fees.
It is also an option for adults who have a very busy life. Through the flexibility that the CLEP program allows, they could obtain academic credits and shorten the time it would take them to obtain a university degree.

Almost 3,000 colleges and universities in the United States accept CLEP results, and students can earn three or more credits for each exam they pass.