<p>Can/will a student receive college credit for completing a 2 year program at a technical school in computer programming? </p>
<p>These are the courses that will have been completed:
8207310 Introduction to Information Technology1 credit
9007210 Foundation of Programming 1 credit
9007220 Procedural Programming 1 credit
9007230 Object-Oriented Programming Fundamentals 1 credit
9007410 .NET Application Development Foundation 1 credit
9007420 .NET Application Development Applied 1 credit
9007430 .NET Application Development Capstone 1 credit</p>
<p>Can? Possibly. Will? Questionable. Colleges will typically award credit for such coursework only when either (a) the course has been evaluated by the college as equivalent to college-level work (rare), when (b) the student is a high schooler but the course itself is taught by a college to collegiate expectations (a little more common), or when (c) the student takes and passes an exam corresponding to the exit expectations for a college course (such as an AP exam).</p>
<p>I would guess that this particular series of courses may give you good preparation for college-level programming courses but will probably not translate directly into college credit. You may be able to convince a college advisor to let you skip a course or two, but you would have to replace those credits with technical electives. Alternately, some schools allow you to test out of ANY course for a fee - if your college allows this, you might be able to simply take a few tests and get credit for some courses.</p>
<p>So he could perhaps take a CLEP test. That’s a good idea.</p>
<p>I do not think that there are any national tests (like CLEP) for programming. I think he would need to check with his colleges of interest.</p>
<p>As a general rule I would be wary of such programs in high school - it is not that they are not doing their best, but without knowing which college will be attended it is all but impossible to know if they will pay off.</p>
<p>Most likely they won’t receive any credit for it, but the knowledge should be very useful on it’s own.</p>
<p>I’m assuming that the technical school counts credits differently, since most colleges would expect you to take at least 12 credits/semester full time.</p>
<p>You’d have better luck transferring credits from a community college than a technical school. Check with your high school if you have a dual-enrollment program in your local community college (if you have one).</p>
<p>The problem is that colleges/universities need to evaluate classes in order for them to receive transfer credits. Since there are a lot of people that go from community college to universities, they have already evaluated most of the courses at the CC and you can get a good idea of what will be transferred and can plan accordingly.</p>