2024-2025 Catalog

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.