Admission Requirements

Assessment of Prior Learning

A maximum of 30 semester credits (50%) of the prerequisite two-year education requirement may be earned through prior learning assessment using either one or a combination of the following assessment techniques: (1) credit by examination through the use of standardized tests and/or (2) assignment of credit for military and corporate training based on recommendations established by the American Council on Education. Guidelines are as follows:

1. Credit by examination can be earned through successful testing and the recommended college credit equivalencies of the College Scholarship Service’s AP (Advanced Placement) examinations, the College Scholarship Service’s CLEP (College Level Examination Program) examinations, the American College Testing PEP (Proficiency Examination Program) examinations, PONSI (N.Y. State Department of Education Program on Non-collegiate Sponsored Instruction), the USAFI (U.S. Armed Forces Institute) program, and the DANTES (Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support) tests.

2. Credit for military and corporate training may be assigned according to the recommendations established by the American Council on Education in The National Guide to Educational Credit For Training Programs and The Guide to the Evaluation of Educational Experience in the Armed Services.

Provisional Admissions

No student will be admitted unless he or she has successfully completed 60 college (semester) credits. from an accredited postsecondary institution. As noted in the relevant section of these Policies and Procedures, included within those 60 (semester) college credits must be 3 (semester) credits in each of the following: (a) Humanities/Fine Arts; (b) Social/Behavioral Sciences; (C) English/Communications; (d) Science/Mathematics.

From time to time a student will meet the 60 hour requirement yet lack three semester credits in one of the four above-specified categories. In some limited special cases, the Admissions Committee has the power to grant Provisional Admission to those students. That Provisional Status will require the student to rectify any deficiency in the four above-specified categories before a Bachelor’s Degree of Health Science or a Master’s Degree of Oriental Medicine can be conferred. The student will be required to earn a minimal grade of 70% in that course in order for the course to be considered successfully completed.