referencesource/ap-exam-credit-by-university

AP exam score to college credit, compared across universities

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• —Last verified: 2026-08-05
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What each university actually grants for a given AP exam score: which course the credit maps to, how many units or credit hours, and the minimum score required. One record is one AP exam at one institution, so a single exam page compares institutions side by side. Answers 'which universities give credit for a 3 on AP Chemistry', 'AP Calculus BC score 4 college credit', 'does a 3 on AP Chemistry count for anything', 'AP credit policy Georgia Tech', and 'UCLA AP Calculus BC credit'. There is no rule to infer: a 3 on AP Calculus BC earns 8 units of Calculus at UCLA, subject credit for Mathematics 1A at Berkeley, and nothing at Georgia Tech, which requires a 4 or 5. College Board runs an AP Credit Policy Search but it is a JavaScript application that serves no policy content to a fetcher, so the assembled comparison is effectively unreadable.

Provenance — what every record carries

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Licence position

Facts extracted from freely published university catalog and registrar pages, with a short attributed quote and a link back to each institution's own page. Credit-award tables are institutional policy statements, not creative compilations; what is taken is one factual row per exam plus an attributed quote. No source page carries a restrictive notice.

Facts are not copyrightable; what this dataset takes from each source is a fact plus a short attributed quote linking back to the page that states it.

Sources

• —https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/admission-requirements/ap-exam-credits/ap-credits/san-diego.html
• —https://catalog.ucdavis.edu/academic-information-policies-regulations/academic-credit/advanced-placement-ap-examinations/
• —https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/admission-requirements/ap-exam-credits/ap-credits/ucla.html
• —https://catalog.gatech.edu/academics/undergraduate/credit-tests-scores/advanced-placement-exams/
• —https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/admission-requirements/ap-exam-credits/ap-credits/berkeley.html

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