Undergraduate

The School Dean or designee uses the following criteria to evaluate proposed transfer credits at the undergraduate level:

Completed at regionally or nationally accredited post-secondary institution
Do not exceed a maximum of 90 lower and upper division semester credits
Earned with a grade of “C” or better

Undergraduate Bachelor of Arts in Legal Studies and Paralegal Certificate Program

To be considered for transfer credit, general education courses must:

Be completed with a recorded grade of C or better at regionally or nationally accredited institution
Be equivalent to courses in the degree program requirements
Appear on an official transcript from the transfer institution

In order to assure that content of any Legal Specialty course submitted for transfer credit remains aligned with current law and academic practice, only courses from the prior five (5) academic years will be considered for transfer.

Be evaluated by the School of Law
Be equivalent in content, length and nature to the School of Law’s course
Carry upper division academic credit
Be from an ABA approved paralegal or legal studies program
Have been completed with a grade of C or better

No transfer credits will be accepted as substitutes for PLS-3001 Introduction to Law, PLS-3002 Legal Research, and PLS-3003 Legal Writing.

No credit will be awarded by course challenge, examination, portfolio or course sharing to meet the School of Law requirements.

Undergraduate Credit from Foreign Institutions

The University may accept transfer or waive credit if an official course-by-course evaluation from an approved credential evaluation agency is supplied. NCU will accept credential evaluations through any evaluation agency accredited by the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES). In addition, credential evaluations by the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) are also accepted.

Credit for Examinations

For the award of undergraduate academic credit, NCU will accept the minimum scores recommended by the American Council on Education (ACE) on all exams offered by:

Advanced Placement Credit
College Level Examination Program (CLEP)
Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support (DSST/DANTES)
Excelsior College (formerly Regents College) Exams

In addition, the University will accept the amount of academic credit and the academic level recommended by ACE for a passing score on each of the exams with the exception of Composition exams. A minimum score of 65 is required for the acceptance of a CLEP composition exam for transfer credit. NCU has sole discretion in determining which and how many of these credits will be accepted toward degree requirements. Credit is not given where (1) it duplicates credit previously earned at or accepted in transfer by NCU or (2) it is more elementary than a course for which the applicant has already received credit.

Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Programs

The School Dean or designee uses the following criteria to evaluate proposed transfer credits at the graduate-level:

Completed within five (5) years prior to acceptance at NCU, while enrolled at a regionally or nationally accredited institution
Credits must be earned with a grade of “B” or better or an equivalent satisfactory grade
A maximum of three (3) semester credits may be transferred from a graduate-level program to NCU’s Post-Baccalaureate certificate programs
Must be equivalent to NCU coursework as demonstrated by the transfer course description

Note: The Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Post-Baccalaureate Certificate may accept a maximum of 12 semester credit hours in transfer credit toward the certificate program for graduate coursework completed toward graduate degree at an accredited college or university with a grade of “B” or better. Transfer credit is only awarded for course work that is evaluated to be substantially equivalent in content to the required course work in the Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Post-Baccalaureate Certificate.

Note: Credits earned at NCU have the same time limits stated above for migration and application to current programs and degree plans, based on the date the corresponding course grade was posted.