Advanced Placement Credit and Chart
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Students who earn scores of 3, 4, or 5 on College Board Advanced Placement Examinations taken before high school graduation will receive 2, 4, or 8 units of credit toward graduation at UCSB for each such test completed with the required scores, provided official scores are submitted to the Office of Admissions.
Students should be advised that college courses taken before or after attending UC may duplicate AP, IB and/or A Level (GCE) examinations. Additionally, exams may duplicate each other (for example, and AP or IB exam in the same subject area). If the student does duplicate an exam with another exam of the same subject content, and/or an exam with a college course, we will award credit only once.
Note: Advanced Placement credit earned prior to entering the university will not be counted toward maximum unit limitations either for selection of a major or for graduation.
| Advanced Placement Exam with score of 3, 4, or 5 |
Units Awarded |
General Education Credit |
UCSB Course Equivalent
(You may not enroll in these courses for credit at UCSB.)
|
| *2D Art and Design |
8 |
None |
None |
| *3D Art and Design |
8 |
None |
None
|
| Art History |
8 |
F: 1 course |
Art History 1 |
| Biology |
8 |
**C: 1 course |
EEMB 22, MCDB 20 |
*Calculus AB
(or AB subscore of BC exam)
|
4 |
**C: 1 course# |
Mathematics 2A, 3A, 34A, or equivalent |
| *Calculus BC |
8 |
**C: 2 courses# |
Mathematics 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 34A, 34B, or equivalent |
| Chemistry |
8 |
**C: 1 course# |
None |
| Chinese Language and Culture |
8
|
**B |
See department for level placement
|
| Comparative Government and Politics |
4 |
D: 1 course |
None
|
| +Computer Science A (through S17) |
2 or 8 |
None |
None |
| +Computer Science A (beginning S18) |
|
|
With score of 3 |
8 |
**C: 1 course# |
None |
With score of 4 or 5 |
8 |
**C: 1 course#
|
Computer Science 8 |
| Computer Science Principles
(effective S17 and S18) |
|
|
With score of 3 |
8 |
**C: 1 course# |
None |
With score of 4 or 5 |
8 |
**C: 1 course#
|
Computer Science 8 |
| Computer Science Principles
(beginning S19) |
|
|
With score of 3 |
8 |
**C: 1 course |
None |
With score of 4 or 5 |
8 |
**C: 1 course
|
Computer Science 4 |
| *Drawing |
8 |
None |
Art 18
|
| *English – Language and Composition or Literature and Composition |
|
|
With score of 3 |
8 |
Entry Level Writing Requirement |
Writing 1, 1E |
With score of 4 |
8 |
A1
|
Writing 1, 1E, 2, 2E, 2LK |
With score of 5 |
8 |
A1, A2
|
Writing 1, 1E, 2, 2E, 2LK, 50, 50E |
| Environmental Science |
4 |
**C: 1 course |
Environmental Studies 2 |
| European History |
8 |
E: 1 course |
None |
| French Language and Culture |
|
|
|
With score of 3 |
8 |
**B
|
French 1-3 |
With score of 4 |
8 |
**B
|
French 1-4 |
With score of 5 |
8 |
**B
|
French 1-5 |
| German Language and Culture |
|
|
|
With score of 3 |
8 |
**B
|
German 1-3 |
With score of 4 |
8 |
**B
|
German 1-4 |
With score of 5 |
8 |
**B
|
German 1-5 |
| Human Geography |
4 |
D |
Geography 5 |
| Italian Language and Culture |
|
|
|
With score of 3 |
8 |
**B
|
Italian 1-3 |
With score of 4 |
8 |
**B
|
Italian 1-5 |
With score of 5 |
8 |
**B
|
Italian 1-6 |
| Japanese Language and Culture |
8
|
**B
|
See department for level placement
|
| Latin |
8 |
**B
|
Latin 1-3 |
| Macroeconomics |
4 |
D: 1 course |
None
|
| Microeconomics |
4 |
D: 1 course |
None |
| Music Theory |
8 |
F: 1 course |
Music 11 |
*Physics 1 (beginning S15)
| 8 | **C: 1 course#
| None
|
*Physics 2 (beginning S15)
| 8 | **C: 1 course#
| None
|
| *Physics – B (last offered S14) |
8 |
**C: 1 course# |
Physics 10 |
| *Physics C: Mechanics |
4 |
**C: 1 course# |
Physics 6A + 6AL
|
| *Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism |
4 |
**C: 1 course# |
Physics 6B + 6BL |
| Psychology |
4 |
D: 1 course |
Psychology 1 |
| Spanish Language and Culture |
|
|
|
With score of 3 |
8 |
**B
|
Spanish 1-3
|
With score of 4 |
8 |
**B
|
Spanish 1-4
|
With score of 5 |
8 |
**B
|
Spanish 1-5
|
| Spanish Literature and Culture |
|
|
|
With score of 3 |
8 |
**B
|
Spanish 1-4
|
With score of 4 |
8 |
**B
|
Spanish 1-5
|
With score of 5 |
8 |
**B
|
Spanish 1-6
|
| Statistics |
4 |
**C: 1 course# |
Communication 87, PSTAT 5AA-ZZ, Psychology 5
|
United States Government and Politics
|
4 |
D: 1 course |
Political Science 12 |
United States History
|
8 |
D: 1 course |
None |
| World History: Modern |
8 |
E: 1 course
|
None |
* A maximum of 8 units EACH in art studio, English, mathematics, and physics is allowed. (The Physics B exam is no longer offered.)
# Also satisfies the quantitative relationship requirement in Area C.
+ The change from 2 units to 8 units for AP Computer Science A was approved for students matriculating at a UC campus in fall 2018 or later. UCSB students who matriculated in fall 2018 may earn 8 units for the exam if it was taken in spring 2015 or later.
** College of Letters and Science only