Transfer Alignments and Guidelines
PLA provides an effective way to accelerate your degree completion time table, while also lowering the costs associated with obtaining a college degree. Below are links to several partner organizations that provide these high quality and well established PLA options for adult students. Please first refer to our Transfer Alignments and Guidelines to ensure that these course units will transfer to Concordia University. If you have any questions or for additional detailed information, please contact the OBD admissions counselor at 949-214-3657.
CLEP
The College-Level Examination Program® (CLEP) gives you the opportunity to receive college credit for what you already know by earning qualifying scores on any of 33 examinations. Earn credit for knowledge you've acquired through independent study, prior course work, on-the-job training, professional development, cultural pursuits, or internships.
DSST (Dantes)
DSST is an effective method to provide you evidence of prior learning. In fact, the 38 exams available at a competitive fee compliment other credit by exam programs such as CLEP. Prior learning assessment will help you accelerate your path to degree completion while saving you the time it takes to sit through a course, as well as the additional dollars spent on tuition.
LearningCounts.org
LearningCounts.org is CAEL's (Council for Adult & Experiential Learning) online service offering credible, third-party assessment of college-level learning acquired outside the college classroom.