Degree Credit for Previous Work

Transfer Credit

See Residency and Transfer Credit Policy.

Military Credit

Students may have completed college-level courses offered by the military for which no college credit was earned. The Office of Academic Advisement evaluates these courses based on the recommendations of the American Council on Education and their applicability to MMC’s curriculum, to determine if credit can be awarded or if the student should make such a request through the Prior Learning Assessment process (see section below).

Conservatory Credit

Students may have completed college-level courses offered at conservatories that are not accredited by any of the regional agencies of the USCHE. The faculty in the division of Fine and Performing Arts evaluate these courses to determine if credit can be awarded or if the student should make such a request through the Prior Learning Assessment process (see section below).

Non-Traditional Credit

Marymount Manhattan College will consider the award of nontraditional credit in the following categories:

1. Advanced Placement (AP)
2. Prior Learning Assessment (PLA)
3. The College Level Examination Program (CLEP)
4. Foreign Language Credit
5. International Baccalaureate Credit (IBC)
6. Jerusalem Exams
7. Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE)

Acceptance of such credits is subject to the following conditions:

• Student may transfer a maximum of sixty (60) credits to MMC in order to meet the 60-credit Residency Requirement;

• No more than 30 combined non-traditional credits from the categories above are accepted toward degree requirements;
• Credits earned within the above categories may be applied to requirements at the 100 and 200 levels only;
• A maximum of 12 non-traditional credits can count towards a foreign language;
• Credits earned in these categories will not count toward the 30 credit residency requirement or toward the 12 credit minimum residency requirement in the field of concentration or major.