CLEP credit lookup: what does your college accept?
Type your college to see every CLEP exam on its list, with the minimum score and the credits for each, from College Board's CLEP College Credit Policy Search College Board. Each college decides whether to award credit for a CLEP or DSST exam, so confirm with your registrar before you book an exam.
Source: College Board's CLEP College Credit Policy Search. Not on the list? Try Find My College.
How to use what you find
1. Find your exams
Each row is one CLEP exam the college lists: the minimum score it asks for and the credits it gives. “Not listed” means College Board's list has no figure for it.
2. Check with your registrar
Tick the exams you want. The email under the list asks the college to confirm the score, the credits and the course each exam counts as. Copy it and send it.
3. Prepare
One exam? Its $5 study guide. Two or more? A CLEP plan covers every CLEP study guide and prep course, from $29 a month.
Questions about the lookup
Where do these scores and credits come from?
From College Board's CLEP College Credit Policy Search, which shows, for each college that posts a CLEP policy, the exams it gives credit for, the score it requires and the credit hours it awards College Board. Each result links that college's own page there.
Are these policies up to date?
College Board says colleges may not have their latest policy posted on its site, and to check the college's own website College Board. Policies change, so confirm with your registrar before you book an exam: the email on this page asks the right questions.
Why does an exam say “Not listed”?
College Board's list has that exam for the college but no minimum score or no credits for it. We don't fill the gap with a guess: ask the college.
Does a higher score than 50 ever matter?
Yes. Each college has its own policy that says exactly what credit it gives College Board. In our list, 1,630 of the 2,239 colleges ask for more than 50 on at least one exam. The lookup shows each college's own minimum for each exam.
What if my college has closed or merged?
We mark the colleges we found closed or merged, with our source, and keep their exam list as a record. We don't offer prep for them. Use Find My College to look up another college.
Sources
Every fact on this page, the official page it comes from, the words it says there, and the day we read it.
- College Board: clep.collegeboard.org/colleges-that-recognize-clep/how-find-colleges-clep-policy
If you searched by college name and your college has a CLEP policy posted on the College Board's website, you should see the name, address, and phone number of your college appear in the results, followed by a table listing the exams it gives credit for, the scores it requires, and the credit hours awarded for that score.
Checked 7 Nov 2026 - College Board: clep.collegeboard.org/colleges-that-recognize-clep/how-find-colleges-clep-policy
Be sure to check your institution's website for the most up-to-date CLEP credit policy information. Institutions may not have the latest policies posted on the CLEP website.
Checked 7 Nov 2026 - College Board: clep.collegeboard.org/colleges-that-recognize-clep/how-find-colleges-clep-policy
each institution has its own policy describing exactly what credit they grant
Checked 7 Nov 2026
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Each college decides whether to award credit for a CLEP or DSST exam, so confirm with your registrar before you book an exam. CLEP® is a registered trademark of the College Board and DSST® is a registered trademark of Prometric; neither was involved in making these tools, and neither endorses TransferCredit.org. Terms