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You Deserve Credit For Prior Learning

Fast-track your degree completion and save money. Get college credit for what you know.
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Turn Your Experience Into a Faster Degree

Do you have college-level knowledge that you’ve gained through life experience? SCOPE offers credit for life experience through prior learning assessment for adults enrolled in one of our degree completion programs. Credit for Prior Learning (CPL) is not just credit for years of experience. Rather, it is credit awarded for things you have learned in non-traditional ways such as on-the-job training, volunteer work, and other activities in which you have invested a great deal of time. CPL can save you money and help you earn your degree faster.

Recent CPL Recipients:

A pilot turned his license into 6 elective credits.

A student submitted her portfolio and received 6 credits.

A missionary to Germany submitted her portfolio, which became 6 credits. 

One of our students sent in her portfolio and received 3 credits.

Ways to Earn CPL at SCOPE

1. FORMAL Testing Options

  • Standardized testing such as AP, CLEP, IB, or Dantes/DSST
  • Excelsior/UExcel Examination
  • New York University Proficiency
  • Testing in Foreign Languages

2. Military training & experience

Military training and experience, based on the recommendations of the American Council on Education’s ACE Military Guide

3. certificates & licensures

Evaluation of non-credit certificates and licensures, based on the recommendations of the American Council on Education (ACE) or the National College Credit Recommendation Service (NCCRS)

4. submit a portfolio

If you have exhausted the testing and ACE/NCCRS options available to you but still believe you have knowledge, training, and/or experience that may lead to credit, you may submit a portfolio. A portfolio consists of the your explanation and related documentation (e.g., certificates/awards earned, recommendations of employers) for why you believe you have met the learning outcomes for a specific course offered by SCOPE.

Download the Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) Tool PDF for more information on our policies for prior learning assessment.

Download PLA PDF

Fees

SCOPE does not charge for prior learning assessment once a student has been admitted to a degree completion program offered through SCOPE. Prospective students may request a PLA evaluation prior to enrollment for a fee of $100. 

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Interested in getting credits for your prior learning? Schedule a call with one of our Pathway Partners or email us today at scope@bju.edu.

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