Apply Earned Credit

As an adult, you’ve gained a great deal of real-world knowledge during the course of your career, including skills from job training, community involvement, or during your service in the military. You may also have transferable credit hours from colleges or universities you have previously attended.

Transfer Credit

Once your transcripts have been received, the Advising Office will evaluate your file for acceptance of transfer credits from:

  • Regionally accredited colleges or universities you’ve attended previously, regardless of how long ago you earned them. Your transcripts are never outdated at Regis.
  • Military DD-214 or DD-295 forms (or notarized copies) and training certificates.
  • Documentation of courses completed through your employer or professional organizations that have been recommended for academic credit by the American Council on Education (ACE).

Seamless Transfer

By taking up to 75% of your coursework through a community college (or up to 90-credit hours, depending on your major) and the remainder through Regis University, you can earn a Bachelor’s degree from Regis. When you plan early with the help of your Regis University faculty advisor, your credits from a community college will transfer-no repeat courses, no wasted credits, no surprises.

Assessing Prior Learning

Regis University is one of more than 1,500 schools nationwide that awards credit for learning achieved through prior experiences. CPS offers two methods of assessing your prior learning: Prior Learning Assessment (Portfolio) and Testing. Both allow you to demonstrate and document the extent of your knowledge and experience to earn college credit.

Prior Learning Assessment (Portfolio)

You may earn up to 45-credit hours (the equivalent of 15 college courses) through the Prior Learning Assessment program. In the 3-credit Prior Learning Assessment course (ED202), you will learn how to demonstrate your previous learning for college credit and produce your first portfolio. Facilitators will guide and assist you through the process of matching your learning experiences to college course descriptions. If needed, you will learn to use the Internet and other resources to locate equivalent course descriptions at regionally accredited colleges throughout the nation, so you are not limited solely to courses offered by Regis.

Students have earned Prior Learning Assessment credit by matching their experience to a wide variety of college courses such as:

Business

  • Customer Service
  • Managing a Small Business

Communication

  • Advanced Public Speaking
  • Intercultural Communication
  • Interpersonal Communication

Computer Science

  • Computer Science Fundamentals
  • Intro to Computing

Education

  • Children’s and Adolescents’ Literature
  • Technology in Education

English

  • Technical and Report Writing

Physical Education

  • Principles of Personal Fitness

Religious Studies

  • Adult Spiritual Life and Growth

The ED202 course is available in both the accelerated classroom format and online. If you are pursuing teacher licensure/certification, the Prior Learning Assessment option is also available to you.

Testing

You can also earn college credit through credit by-exam programs: CLEP, Dantes, and Challenge Exams. Most exams are pass/no pass and award 3 to 12 credit hours. The CLEP and Dantes national testing programs offer more than 65 exams that meet core, major, minor, prerequisite, and general elective degree requirements. National League of Nursing exams and Miller Analogies Tests are also offered.

Challenge Exams have been developed by Regis faculty and are based on specific Regis courses. Challenge Exams are designed to allow students to demonstrate mastery of a particular subject area gained through life or work experience. Some of the wide range of subject areas covered by these exams include:

  • Accounting
  • Computer science
  • Economics
  • Education foundations
  • English composition
  • Ethics
  • History
  • Languages: Spanish, German, or French
  • Law enforcement
  • Literature
  • Management
  • Marketing
  • Natural sciences
  • Personal finance
  • Psychology
  • Sociology
  • Statistics

We offer testing facilities at most of our Front Range campuses. Testing times include a choice of evenings and Saturdays. You may obtain test preparation information, the testing schedule, and registration information from our website at www.regis.edu/spstesting. You are also welcome to drop by, or call the Testing Center, where the staff will be glad to help you.

Prior Learning Assessment Office

Regis University
College for Professional Studies
3333 Regis Blvd., K-28
Adult Learning Center, Room 305
Denver, CO 80221
Toll-free: 800.568.8932, x3531
Fax: 303.964.3699
E-mail: portfolio@regis.edu
Website: www.regis.edu/sps/portfolio

Testing Center

Regis University
College for Professional Studies
3333 Regis Blvd., L-4
Adult Learning Center, Room 103
Denver, CO 80221
Toll-free: 800.568.8932
Fax: 303.964.5233
E-mail: spstest@regis.edu
Website: www.regis.edu/spstesting