Purpose:  To comply with Minnesota State undergraduate transfer credit policy and to ensure fair and consistent transfer credit evaluation practices.

Normandale Community College will grant credit for undergraduate coursework from regionally accredited colleges and universities and will consider for additional credit other collegiate and non-collegiate work in accordance with Minnesota State Board Policies 3.21, 3.35, and 3.39. 

Students who earn a score of 3 or higher on an Advanced Placement (AP) examination will be awarded credit upon submission of an official AP score report to the Office of Admissions. Course equivalencies and the MnTC goals satisfied by AP examinations are reflected at transferology.com. 

Upon completion of testing, students must submit an official score report to the Office of Admissions for consideration of credit.  For examinations completed July 2001 or later, the minimum CLEP score for acceptance of credit is 50, with higher scores required in level 2 foreign language examinations.  There is no limit to the number of credits a student may earn for CLEP examinations; however, students who are seeking a degree or certificate must meet the college residency requirement. Course equivalencies and the MnTC goals satisfied by CLEP examinations are reflected at transferology.com. 

Students shall be granted 6 semester credits for scores of 4 or higher on each higher-level examination, plus 2 credits for each standard level examination with a score of 4 or higher.  Course equivalencies and the MnTC goals satisfied by CLEP examinations are reflected at transferology.com. 

Articulation agreements between certain high schools and Normandale Community College allow students who have completed specific coursework with grades of B (85%) or higher and comprehensive college-level Project Lead the Way™ (PLTW) examinations with scores of 70% or higher to earn academic credit at Normandale.  Within three years of high school graduation, the student must enroll at Normandale and submit an official articulation certificate or high school transcript showing the course grades and corresponding PLTW end-of-course exam results to the Office of Admissions.  If the transcript does not reflect the results of the PLTW end-of-course examinations, an official score report, signed by the person responsible for the PLTW program in the student’s school district, must be sent with the transcript.  CTE and PLTW credits are accepted for enrolled students only.

Normandale Community College shall use transferology.com (and successor databases) housed within the System Office as the official repository of course equivalency data.  

Appeals of the transcript evaluation are done by completing the academic petition form, available from the Advising and Counseling Department.  The academic petition will be reviewed by an academic dean and, if appropriate, the academic department.  Notification of the outcome will be emailed to the student's my.normandale.edu account within three weeks of the date the petition was received.