Basic Skills Testing: Incoming students’ course placement for Math and English is based on placement tests in Math, Reading, and Writing. Felician also accepts SAT/ACT scores, if submitted. All incoming freshmen must be tested for reading, writing, and mathematics, unless they are exempt from all or part of this testing.
The criteria for exemption are as follows:
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Received Admission into the Honors Program
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Completed college-level English and Math (submit your official transcripts to the Admissions office for review)
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Completed an ACT (20 composite score) or SAT (560 EBRW, 550 Math) (submit your official scores to the Admissions office for review)
Placement Testing is available both on-site (at Felician University) as well as online through a Brightspace testing shell with Honorlock remote proctoring. To test remotely, you need to a computer with a webcam as well as the Honorlock Chrome extension (i.e. testing must be run through Google Chrome).
Challenge Examinations are graded on a pass/fail basis. Each academic department has its own criteria for determining passing grades for Challenge Examinations. Only passing grades for Challenge Examinations appear on a student’s transcript. Successfully completed examinations are listed on student transcripts under the name and number of the course challenged, followed by the word “CHALLENGE.”
Students applying to take a Challenge Examination must pay a fee of $25.00 per credit according to the number of credits normally awarded for the challenged course. For example, students challenging a 3-credit course will pay a fee of $75.00. Fees for clinical examinations are necessarily higher. Application forms may be obtained in the offices of the Deans of the Schools.
Upon passing the Challenge Examination students apply to have examination credits awarded by the University, and will be charged one-third the standard tuition rate for each Challenge Examination credit awarded. Credits granted for Challenge Examinations do not count toward Felician University’s 30-credit residency requirement. Any exam, once taken, cannot be repeated. Undergraduate students are allowed to earn up to 16 hours of credit through Challenge Examinations. Graduate students may earn up to 9 credits. Students are not permitted to take Challenge Examinations during their last semester of coursework.
Students are not allowed to earn credit by examination for courses that they have previously audited, failed, or from which they have withdrawn.
Academic departments are not required to offer these examinations.
College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) is a nationally recognized series of general and subject examinations that tests primarily the content and theory of freshman and sophomore level undergraduate courses. They are prepared, updated, and processed by the Educational Testing Service.
The University accepts the most recent recommendation of the Commission on Educational Credit of the American Council on Education regarding the minimum score required to earn credit. These scores appear in the CEEB publication, College Placement and Credit Examinations: Guide to Institutional Policies. A maximum of 30 CLEP credits will be accepted toward a Bachelor’s degree. A list of the CLEP examinations, course and credit equivalencies, accepted by Felician University is available in the Testing Office. Students should consult with their advisor(s) regarding program requirements before taking a CLEP exam.