AQB Degree Equivalencies
Applicant must satisfy at least one of the following five options:
- Bachelor’s Degree in any field of study
- Associate’s Degree in a field of study related to:
- Business Administration;
- Accounting;
- Finance;
- Economics; or
- Real Estate.
- Successful completion of 30 semester hours of college-level courses that cover each of the following specific topic area and hours:
- English Composition (3 semester hours);
- Microeconomics (3 semester hours);
- Macroeconomics (3 semester hours);
- Finance (3 semester hours);
- Algebra, Geometry, or higher mathematics (3 semester hours);
- Statistics (3 semester hours);
- Computer Science (3 semester hours);
- Business or Real Estate Law (3 semester hours); and
- Two elective courses in any of the topics listed above or in accounting, geography, agricultural economics, business management, or real estate (3 semester hours each).
- Successful completion of at least 30 hours of College Level Examination Program (CLEP) examinations from each of the following subject matter areas:
- College Algebra (3 semester hours);
- College Composition (6 semester hours);
- College Composition Modular (3 semester hours);
- College Mathematics (6 semester hours);
- Principles of Macroeconomics (3 semester hours);
- Principles of Microeconomics (3 semester hours);
- Introductory Business Law (3 semester hours); and
- Information Systems (3 semester hours).
- Any combination of III.B3. and III.B.4 that ensures coverage of all topics and hours identified in III.B.3.
Applicants for the Certified General credential must hold a Bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited college or university. The college or university must be a degree-granting institution accredited by the Commission on Colleges, a national or regional accreditation association, or by an accrediting agency that is recognized by the US Secretary of Education. Applicants with a college degree from a foreign country may have their education evaluated for “equivalency” by one of the following:
- An accredited, degree-granting domestic college or university;
- A foreign degree credential evaluation service company that is a member of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES); or
- A foreign degree credential evaluation service company that provides equivalency evaluation reports accepted by an accredited degree-granting domestic college or university or by a state licensing board that issues credentials in another discipline.