Demonstrating College-Level Knowledge at Any Age

With the help of Corporation funding, the College Entrance Examination Board created the College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) in 1960. The aim of the 33 different CLEP examinations, each of which is ninety minutes long and consists entirely of multiple-choice questions, is to provide students of any age with the opportunity to demonstrate college-level achievement by earning qualifying scores in subject areas ranging from American Literature to Principles of Macroeconomics to Biology to Information Systems and Computer Applications. CLEP also offers international and home-schooled students a venue for demonstrating their proficiency in subject areas and bypass undergraduate coursework. Another valuable use of CLEP tests is that they can help students who are a few credits shy of graduation to complete their degree programs. In addition, there is wide access to the tests and significant acceptance of the results: CLEP exams are administered at 1,700 colleges and 2,900 colleges and universities grant credit for successful scores.