Excelsior College Unofficial Guide to Credit by Exam Options

[KayV]

Hidden deep in the EC website, effective September 1, 2016, Excelsior College will accept CBE options such as CLEP and DSST according to the ACE recommendations regarding upper and lower level credit, and only with Pass/ Fail grades.

I really miss the guide they last published in 2013, but recommendations have changed since then. Also, Excelsior seems to be trying to make it as easy as possible to find their own UExcel options while making it difficult to find the credit value of other exams.

Even so, Excelsior remains a good option for certain people in certain situations, and its price is comparable to TESU and COSC for some degrees when you use the partnership pricing.

I have gone through the ACE website to check out the current credit values of CLEP and DSST exams and list them here for convenience.

CLEP
(Passing score is 50 unless otherwise noted)
American Government 3LL
American Literature 3LL (6LL if taken before 3/2015)
Analyzing and Interpreting Literature 3LL (6LL if taken before 3/2015)
Biology 6LL
Calculus 4LL
Chemistry 6LL
College Algebra 3LL
College Composition- not accepted
College Composition Modular- not accepted
College Mathematics 6LL
English Composition- not accepted
English Literature 3LL (6LL if taken before 3/2015)
Financial Accounting 3LL
French Language 6LL for 50+; 9LL for 59+ (before 3/ 2015, 6LL for 50+, 12LL for 59+)
Freshman College Composition- not accepted
German Language 6LL for 50+; 9LL for 59+ (before 3/ 2015, 6LL for 50+, 12LL for 60+)
History of the US I 3LL
History of the US II 3LL
Human Growth and Development 3LL
Humanities 3LL (6LL if taken before 3/2015)
Information Systems 3LL
Intro to Educational Psychology 3LL
Introductory Business Law 3LL
Introductory Psychology 3LL
Introductory Sociology 3LL
Natural Sciences 6LL
Precalculus 3LL
Principles of Accounting 6LL
Principles of Macroeconomics 3LL
Principles of Management 3LL
Principles of Marketing 3LL
Principles of Microeconomics 3LL
Social Sciences and History 6LL
Spanish Language 6LL for 50+; 9LL for 63+ (before 3/ 2015, 6LL for 50+, 12LL for 63+)
Trigonometry 3LL through 2/29/16; no longer offered
Western Civilization I 3LL
Western Civilization II 3LL


DSST
(passing score is 400)
A History of the Vietnam War 3UL (3LL if taken before 10/31/2013)
Art of the Western World 3LL
Astronomy 3LL
Business Ethics and Society 3UL
Business Mathematics 3LL
Computing and Information Technology 3LL
Criminal Justice 6LL (3UL before 12/31/2012)
Environment and Humanity 3LL (3UL before 6/30/2014)
Ethics in America 3LL (3UL before 12/31/2015)
Foundations of Education 3LL
Foundations of College Algebra 3LL
Fundamentals of Counseling 3LL
Fundamentals of Cybersecurity 3UL
General Anthropology 3LL
Health and Human Development (Here’s to Your Health) 3LL
History of the Soviet Union 3UL
Human/ Cultural Geography 3LL
Introduction to Business 3LL
Introduction to Law Enforcement 3UL
Introduction to the Modern Middle East 3LL (retired in 2013)
Introduction to World Religions 3LL (3UL before 12/31/2015)
Lifespan Developmental Psychology 3LL
Management Information Systems 3LL
Money and Banking 3UL
Organizational Behavior 3LL
Personal Finance 3LL
Personnel/ Human Resource Management 3LL
Principles of Finance 3UL
Principles of Physical Science I 3LL
Principles of Public Speaking 3LL
Principles of Statistics 3LL
Principles of Supervision 3LL
Substance Abuse 3UL
Technical Writing 3LL
The Civil War and Reconstruction 3UL