ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

Section 316 Enrollment Safeguards for 90-Credit Programs              

Effective: 11/17/2025
Last Revised:
Responsible Office: Academic and Student Affairs

Policy Statement:

The following definition is adopted to establish enrollment safeguards for 90-credit applied bachelor’s degree programs:

  1. Students seeking to enroll in a 90-credit program must either:
    1. Already be enrolled in a program, certificate, or course(s) after having joined one of our universities as an adult degree completer, defined as (1) having some prior earned credit, and (2) having been away from one of our universities or another college or university for at least two years. This is consistent with our existing definition of adult degree completers for scholarship purposes. These qualifications will be checked bythe student’s academic advisor and cross-checked by the university registrar.  or
    2. If not already enrolled as a UMS adult degree completer, 90-credit program applicants must be guided through a transcript evaluation, including evaluation of CPL (credit for prior learning—i.e., work/life experience equivalent to earned academic credit), and must meet the away-for-two-years requirement as well. These students’ eligibility will be checked and cross-checked by the academic advisor and the registrar. 
  2. Students who do not meet the requirements of (a) or (b) above may not enroll in a 90- credit program. This includes all non-adult degree completion students currently enrolled, or planning to enroll, in a 120-credit UMS program, and community college transfers who entered a community college program within one year of graduating from high school and are seeking to move directly from community college to a 90- credit program.
  3. An exception may be granted for community college transfers who enrolled in their community college programs as adult degree completers— as defined by UMS— may be eligible for 90-credit program enrollment pending transcript review, CPL evaluation, and confirmation by the academic advisor and registrar.

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