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2. General Education Requirements (credit hours will vary depending on transfer credits) Students must complete the General Education Curriculum (GEC) required by the university.

Maintains a flexible transfer of credits policy for the mobile, active-duty service member.

Credit For Advanced Standing (Advanced Placement/International Baccalaureate) Admissions | Special Students | Unclassified Admissions | International Students Admissions | Second Degree Undergraduates (Non-NCCU Graduates) Admissions | Second-Degree Undergraduates (NCCU Graduates) Admissions | Military Personnel and Veterans of the Armed Forces of the United States Credits from Military Schools and Experience Credit for Basic Health, Physical Education, Speech, and Military Science Electives Second-degree or Licensure-only Teachers General Requirements North Carolina Central University is committed to providing equal educational opportunities and does not discriminate against applicants, students, or employees based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, or handicap. Applicants are considered individually and in accordance with the following criteria: Evidence of MCR completion and academic achievement, with considerable facility in the use of the English language; Complete record from an accredited secondary or preparatory high school with graduation based upon no fewer than 20 units; Satisfactory class rank and required grade point average (GPA) established by General Administration’s and NCCU’s minimum admissions requirements (MAR) for in-state and out-of-state applicants; Evidence of participation in scholastic, community and civic organizations including leadership participation; and Submission of at least the minimum required standardized test score. Exceptions: Transfer applicants may be exempt from having to meet freshman requirements and from sending high school transcripts and/or standardized test scores if they fall in one of the following categories: Category 1: Applicants who were awarded their high school diploma prior to 1988 or are at least twenty four (24) years old prior to the beginning of classes and has a cumulative average of at least a “C” in the institution from which they are transferring and is eligible to return to that institution. NCCU does not accept transfer credit from challenge examinations or for course work where grades of Pass/Fail (P/F) have been given. The maximum number of transferable credits is (64) semester hours from a two-year college.

The transcript also includes semester and cumulative grade point information, transfer credit information and degree information.

Those seventy-two (72) hours include credit by examination, advanced placement credit, dual enrollment credit, early college credit, cooperative innovative high school credit, and transfer credits through programs officially sponsored by NCCU.

Accepted transfer credit will count as both attempted and earned hours.

Baccalaureate students will be granted college credit for each test in the battery (five tests) in the award of up to six semester hours of credit in the areas covered by the tests; the total amount of credit granted for all five tests will not exceed 30 semester hours of credit or the equivalent of one academic year. Credits awarded through CLEP by accredited institutions will be accepted on the same basis as other transfer credits from those institutions.

Credit For Advanced Standing (Advanced Placement/International Baccalaureate) Credit for advanced standing will be awarded according to the following regulations: The appropriate semester hours of credit will be awarded for all community college or university work in which the student has earned a grade of “C” or better, provided that the institution from which the credit is being transferred is accredited by its regional accrediting agency and/or its State Department of Education. Credit for formal advanced placement programs (AP/IB) and credit by formal examination programs are awarded in accordance with the appropriate national norms established for such programs. These norms and standards are available in the undergraduate Admissions Office and the University Testing Center. After matriculating at NCCU, a student may not pursue courses of any type at another institution without obtaining, in advance of registration for such courses, written permission from the dean of the school or college in which the student is registered at NCCU. Work taken without prior approval may not be accepted by NCCU.

Nursing courses completed at other institutions are not accepted as transfer credits.

Nursing Courses are not accepted as transfer credit.

Applicants with less than 24 transferable credit hours may be reviewed and may be asked to send SAT or ACT scores. The student must be in good standing and eligible to return to the last school attended and have earned 24 or more transferable credit hours. Under 21 Years Old 21 Years or Older AA or AS Degree Official HS Transcript Required Not Required Not Required Official College Transcript(s) Required Required Required 2.0 Cumulative GPA Required Required Required 24 Transferable Credits Required Required Required Good Standing with Most Recent Institution Required Required Required SAT or ACT Scores (less than 24 transferable credits) Required Not Required Not Required

Montgomery GI Bill® Active Duty (Chapter 30): An individual may be eligible if he/she entered the Military on or after July 1, 1985, served at least two years, contributed $100.00 a month for the first 12 months of service, and were honorably discharged. Veterans who are eligible for more than one VA education benefit must make an irrevocable choice giving up one benefit in order to receive Post 9/11 Chapter 33. Transfer of Entitlement : Service members can qualify for Transfer of Entitlement, or TOE, if they have completed at least six years of service and have a re-enlistment to serve four more, or 10 years of service time. Accepted transfer credit will count as both attempted and earned hours. All attempted hours are counted, including accepted transfer hours, whether or not financial aid was received, or the course work was successfully completed. Students pursuing a double major or a second degree are eligible to receive financial aid until their cumulative registered credits equal 150% of the required number of credits for their dual or second program.

The Dual Degree Program student will be required to complete a Georgia Tech, Duke or N.C. State for the Dual Degree candidate includes free electives and the candidate has excessive hours of credit at NCCU, he/she may petition that these excess hours be used as transfer credit to Georgia Tech, Duke or N.C. Such transfer credit shall not exceed more than one-half of the official study program at Georgia Tech, Duke or N.C.

Credit for courses taken at another institution, except through the inter-institutional program as outlined below, is treated the same as any other transfer credit.

Transfer of Credit All work accepted for transfer credit must be at least a “C” grade and will be treated as semester hours earned. The grades a student earned on transferred work will not be recorded on the academic transcript of the student’s work at NCCU and will not count toward the student’s grade point average (GPA). However, the transferred hours will count towards the maximum of 168 semester hours that a student may attempt as an undergraduate. Students transferring from a two-year institution may receive up to a total of 64 semester hours of academic credit from all institutions attended. Extension courses, advanced placement, CLEP credit, and military service credit are included in this maximum. Students who transfer from a four-year accredited institution may receive any number of semester hours of academic credit from all four-year institutions attended. These students, however, must meet the 30-semester hour residency requirement before receiving their degrees from North Carolina Central University. Students who transfer to NCCU and who request financial aid must also submit for evaluation an official financial aid transcript from all schools attended previously. Academic Support Services

Those 50 consecutive hours include credit by examination, advanced placement credit, dual enrollment credit, early college credit, cooperative innovative high school credit, and transfer credits through programs officially sponsored by NCCU.