You’ve already earned some college credits or an associate’s degree and have significant work experiences. Now you’ve decided to take the important step of finishing your bachelor’s degree. As an adult with family and work obligations, you need an efficient path to complete your degree that incorporates all of your prior learning in a way that works in your life.
We work with adult learners to establish credit for prior learning, including maximizing the number of credits you can transfer from other colleges and evaluating prior learning for credit. The more credits you receive, the more efficiently you can complete your degree.
You won’t have to figure all this out on your own. Once you enroll, you’ll develop a preliminary degree plan with your academic advisor. All credit options will be discussed with your advisor during the degree-planning process.
At Lesley, we provide 4 ways for you to earn credits toward your 120-credit degree:
Here’s How it Works
During your initial advising appointment, your advisor will provide you with a transfer credit evaluation. To determine which credits may transfer, every effort is made to match courses with their Lesley degree equivalents. Only college-level courses with grades of C- or better (D- or better if you have an Associates Degree conferred) are eligible for transfer credit. Courses taken for a pass/fail grade will be eligible for transfer credit only if the transcript indicates that the pass signifies at least a C- (or D- if you have an Associates Degree conferred).
The bottom line: We accept up to 90 credits in total from all sources toward a BA or BS (BFA requirements vary). Of those 90 credits, no more than 45 credits can come from Prior Learning Assessment.
Contact us at any time to talk about what your path might look like.