SUNY Empire
State College’s Get Credit program enables students who demonstrate and verify
their college-level learning the ability to earn and transfer in
college credit. This learning can be acquired outside the classroom through
previous life and work experience. Students at SUNY Empire can transfer credits in multiple
ways, including through professional learning evaluations (PLE), individualized
prior learning assessment (iPLA), and military training and occupations, as
well as different standardized college-level examinations (e.g., CLEP, AP,
DANTES).
To earn PLE
credit, SUNY Empire has already evaluated many experiences, such as
professional licensures, trainings, and apprenticeships. Students are able to
know in advance how much academic credit they would earn by completing those
experiences. Students can also earn credit via iPLA, which requires students to demonstrate college-level
learning gained through various experiences, such as work, volunteer
opportunities, hobbies, or military service, or independent study. Then, this
experience is evaluated by SUNY Empire for college credit that can be
transferred into the institution.
Another way that students receive credit is
through the military. SUNY Empire takes credit from the Joint Services
Transcript, which is a military transcript evaluated by the American Council on Education for college-level learning. The institution
also takes credit attained at the Community College of the Air Force.
