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Academic Credit

 

Credit for Military Education

SDSU awards credit for military education based on Military Occupational Specialties (MOS) Rankings and Military Experience. Using the American Council on Education (ACE) recommendation, SDSU awards lower and/or upper division units for associate, baccalaureate, or graduate degrees. SDSU does not award credit for any vocational, technical or certificate trainings. See also Academic Programs.

Joint Services Transcript (JST)

Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Coast Guard veterans and service members can access their JST's online. Your JST includes college credit recommendations from ACE regarding your military training, exam scores from CLEP, DSST, DLPT and Excelsior/Regents credit. 

Community College of the Air Force (CCAF)

Air Force service members and veterans can access their transcripts through Air University. 

Approved Military Education Credit

Approved military education ACE credit recommendations are used for lower division baccalaureate degree courses to fulfill the following select areas of the SDSU General Education pattern:

  • GE Oral Communication – 3 semester hours in oral communication, public speaking, speech, interpersonal communication must be specifically listed as part of the ACE Guide recommendation
  • GE Physical Science – 3 semester hours in solid physical science such as physics, chemistry, etc. must be specifically listed as part of the ACE Guide recommendation
  • GE Life Science – 3 semester hours in solid life science such as biology, anatomy, physiology, etc. must be specifically listed as part of the ACE Guide recommendation
  • GE Natural Science Lab – appropriate physical or life science lab must be specifically listed as part of the ACE Guide recommendation
  • GE Social Behavioral Science – 3 semester hours in appropriate social behavioral science course such as economics, psychology, sociology, etc. must be specifically listed as part of the ACE Guide recommendation
  • GE Humanities – 3 semester hours in appropriate humanities course such as jazz theory must be specifically listed as part of the ACE Guide recommendation 
  • GE Area E - Basic Training credit based on branch of service and military entrance date
    • Military credit for GE Area E is awarded as follows:
Branch Entrance Date Basic Training Units
Air Force 1/1976 - Present* --n/a-- 4 units
Army 12/1979 - 6/1985 AR-2201-0197 4 units
Army 7/1985 - 2/2000 AR-2201-0399 4 units
Army 3/2000-09/2005 AR-2201-0399 5 units
Army 10/2005 - present AR-2201-0399 6 units
Coast Guard 1/1978 - 12/1987 CG-2205-0011 4 units
Coast Guard 1/1988 - 7/2003 CG-2205-0035 4 units
Coast Guard 8/2003 - 5/2009 CG-2205-0035 6 units
Coast Guard 6/2009 - Present CG-2205-0035 7 units
Marine Corps 12/1976  - 5/1991 MC-2204-0038 8 units
Marine Corps 12/1979 - 3/1987 MC-2204-0046 4 units (women)
Marine Corps 6/1991 - 9/2000 MC-2204-0088 4 units
Marine Corps 10/2000 - 12/2010 MC-2204-0088 8 units
Marine Corps 01/2011 - Present MC-2204-0088 9 units
Navy 4/1979 - 9/1991 NV-2202-0014 4 units
Navy 10/1991 - 07/2002 NV-2202-0165 3 units
Navy 8/2002 - 10/2016 NV-2202-0165 2 units
Navy 11/2016 - Present NV-2202-0165 9 units

*Credit for basic training can be awarded from the DD-214 or the Community College of the Air Force (CCAF) transcript. SDSU only uses CCAF transcript to make a determination of credit awards for military education. Units are included in the 70 unit maximum allowed from community colleges.

 

See also: Academic Programs

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