Prior Learning Assessment

Prior Learning Assessment

You may be closer to earning a degree than you think! Wouldn’t it be great if your professional knowledge and certifications counted toward your degree, helping you earn it faster and saving you money in the process? Take your experience and all you have learned, and use it to earn college credit through Prior Learning Assessment.

Our University is convinced that learning does not take place exclusively in the classroom. A person's professional learning may be translated into college-level credit. This learning can be evaluated in terms of required and/or elective courses from specific degree programmes. At our nationally recognised private university, we value the college-level and university-level knowledge you may have acquired outside the traditional college classroom. You have already done the learning! Using the University’s Portfolio Assessment programme, students demonstrate that what they already know is equivalent to what they would have learned in an equivalent college course. Although you may have college level learning from multiple sources, you will only use those credits that best meet the degree that you have designed. To be eligible for prior learning credits, you must be enrolled in our degree programme. You will be asked to create a portfolio that describes and demonstrates how your previous learning equates to the learning outcomes of specific courses within the degree programme.

Degrees awarded:

Bachelors:

Bachelor of Professional Studies

Bachelor of Advanced Studies

Bachelor of Individual Studies

Bachelor of Business Administration

Bachelor of Science

Bachelor of Arts

The Bachelor comprising 3 full study years requires a EQF level 6 qualification. The Bachelor comprising 4 full study years requires a EQF level 7 qualification.

Graduates of our University grado propio Bachelor degree programmemes qualify for admission to grado propio Master programmemes of our University and selected partner universities.

Masters:

Master of Professional Studies

Master of Advanced Studies

Master of Individual Studies

Master of Business Administration

Master of Science

Master of Arts

The prior learning assessment grado propio Master programmes of our University are ideal for qualified professionals earning a university degree based on their qualifications, licenses, skills and experience and who do not need an accredited or recognised degree rather than a university own degree awarded by a recognised university to demonstrate their individual level of education in a given area or field of expertise. A grado propio or university own degree reflects that the graduate has earned a degree at postsecondary education level awarded by an officially recognised university. 

Graduates of our University grado propio Master degree programmemes qualify for admission to grado propio Doctor programmemes of our University and selected partner universities.

Doctorates:

Doctor of Professional Studies

Doctor of Advanced Studies

Doctor of Individual Studies

Doctor of Business Administration

Doctor of Science

Doctor of Letters

The University, seeking to differentiate between official and university own doctorates, has introduced the Doctor of the University (Dr.Univ), the Doctor of Science (Dr.Sc) and the Doctor of Letters (Dr.Litt) as well as the Doctor of Business Administration which are awarded, with the other higher official doctorates reserved for formally examined academic scholarship.

A Doctor of the University degree, awarded as grado propio by our University, is a terminal academic degree for which the University has waived the usual requirements, such as matriculation, residence or online-presence, study, and the passing of sit-examinations. The degree is a doctorate and often conferred as a way of honouring a distinguished person´s contributions to a specific field, or to society in general. The degree typically is not recognised in the same stature as the standard "earned" doctorate by employers, and should not be represented as such, it should rather be seen as an academic award.

The Doctor of the University is awarded by the University under the terms of its charter, may be considered to have technically the same standing as the official doctorate, and to grant the same privileges and style of address, except where explicitly stated that it is a university own degree without RVOE.

The degree is a doctorate and often conferred as a way of honouring a distinguished person´s contributions to a specific field, or to society in general. The degree typically is not recognised in the same stature as the standard "earned" doctorate by employers, and should not be represented as such, it should rather be seen as an award. The Doctor of the University is a professional recognition that provides an independent quality assurance reference for highly qualified professionals from all fields, for those who strive for personal excellence, and who become a motivating example in their communities. The Doctor of the University is a recognized mark of professional ability, outstanding professional career, services to the human kind and international achievements.

In practice, however, such degrees may not be considered of the same standing as doctoral degrees earned by the standard academic processes of courses and original research, nevertheless, based on the University´s evaluation, the recipient has demonstrated an appropriate level of academic scholarship that would ordinarily qualify him or her for the award of an official degree. The Doctor of the University degree is sometimes considered honorary, although it is only conferred on an individual who has already achieved a comparable qualification at another university or by attaining an office requiring the appropriate level of scholarship. Under certain circumstances a degree may be conferred on an individual for both the nature of the office they hold and the completion of a dissertation.

The university will appoint a panel of examiners who will consider the case and prepare a report recommending whether or not the degree be awarded. These, also, are properly considered substantive rather than honorary degrees. These ad eundem degrees are earned degrees, not honorary, because they recognise formal learning or contributions at doctoral level.