Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate

Belmont Abbey College will ordinarily award course credit to students who have taken the Advanced Placement Tests of the College Entrance Examination Board and scored 3 or higher. The College also awards course credit for acceptable scores on the College Level Examination Program (CLEP), for Cambridge International Examinations (CIE), and for International Baccalaureate (IB) achievement.  For IB credits, only higher level exams with scores of 5 or higher are accepted. Credit is awarded only for courses in the College’s current curriculum. A maximum of thirty (30) academic credits will be offered for advanced placement and other college-level learning acquired in non-traditional settings. Please see the table below for AP, CLEP Examination, and IB course equivalencies awarded by Department. Duplicate credit will not be awarded in the event the AP, CLEP, and/or IB achievement recommend award of the same course or courses.

ADVANCED PLACEMENT EXAMINATION
Examination Name Score Credit Course Awarded
Biology 4 4 BI101
Calculus AB 3 3 MA201
Calculus BC 3 3 MA202
Chemistry 4 4 CH105
Computer Science 3 3 CS201
Economics/Macro 3 3 EC201
Economics/Micro 3 3 EC202
English Lang. & Comp. 5 5 RH104
English Lit. & Comp. 5 5 RH104
Environmental Science 4 4 EV 300 or BI 301
European History 3 6 HI101, HI102
French Language 3 3 FR101
Gov’t & US Policy 3 3 PO201
Human Geography 3 3 SC000
Italian 3 6 IT101, IT102
Physics 3 -- Departmental Evaluation
Precalculus 3 3 MA152
Psychology 3 3 PC201
Spanish 4 6 SP101 & SP102
Statistics 3 3 MA208 or MA304
US History 3 6 HI201, HI202
World History 3 3 HI000
COLLEGE LEVEL EXAMINATION PROGRAM
Examination Name Score Credits Course Awarded
Biology 50 4 BI101
English Lit. 50 3 EN211
Freshman Comp. 50 4 RH104
Intro. to Business Law 50 3 BU312
Prin. of Accounting 50 3 AC211
Prin. of Macro Econ 50 3 EC201
Prin. of Management 50 3 BU300
Prin. of Marketing 50 3 BU309
College Mathematics 50 3 MA135
Prin. of Micro Econ 50 3 EC202
Psychology 50 3 PC201
US History I 50 3 HI201
US History II 50 3 HI202
West Civ. I 50 3 HI101
West Civ. II 50 3 HI102
INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE
Examination Name Score Credits Course Awarded
Biology 5 4 BI101
Economics 5 6 EC201 & EC202
English 5 3 EN101
French 5 3 FR101
History 5 6 HI101, HI102, HI201, HI202 or HI000 elective
Mathematics Methods 5 3 MA151