Advanced Placement Credit Awards

Advanced Placement tests are offered to high school students through College Board. With a sufficient score on the AP exam, students will be able to earn college credit and/or course equivalencies. High school students take Advanced Placement classes to prepare for the exams, as well as to earn high school credit. Matrices below list the college course equivalencies and credit hours awarded at each of Ohio's public institutions of higher education for the score of "3" or higher on the Advanced Placement exam.

These credit awards are current as of the 2009 examinations:

Definitions

If an institution does not offer a course corresponding to a specific AP exam, a student is still guaranteed to receive college credit, but not for a specific course or set of courses. Instead, he/she will receive either Transfer Module (OTM) Area Credit or General Electives." To find out the applicability of each credit, please contact each institution.

Transfer Module Area Credit - Credit that applies towards one of the five areas of the Ohio Transfer Module, a subset of each institution's General Education Requirements. This credit will count towards the completion of a Transfer Module in one or more of the following five areas – English Composition/Oral Communication, Mathematics, Arts & Humanities, Social & Behavioral Sciences, or Natural Sciences.

General Elective Credit - General Elective Credit counts towards the total number of college credit hour and may apply toward one's degree completion.

AP Score - The American Council on Education (ACE) has interpreted and ranked what each AP score meant and made recommendations on how students can be qualified to earn college credit in AP. The rankings, taken from the College Board's AP site, are as follows:

5	Extremely well-qualified
4	Well-qualified
3	Qualified
2	Possibly qualified
1	No recommendation

Students with exam scores of "3" or higher are guaranteed to receive college credit, mainly in general education areas, upon entrance to any of Ohio’s Public Institutions of Higher Education.

Additional Information

In some instances, two possible credit awards are listed for a test. In these situations, the credit awarded should benefit the student most for his/her chosen area of study. Students should contact the receiving institution to determine which credit they will be awarded.

If a student has taken multiple levels of a test in a single area, such as Calculus AB and BC, Computer Science A and AB, or a foreign language and literature, that student should contact the receiving institution to find out how this credit will be applied toward his or her major.

For Studio Art tests, all materials should be retained for possible evaluation by the receiving institution. Completion of the AP test does not guarantee admission into the Art major.