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Even before official acceptance, applying students are provided an opportunity to begin the initial course work required of all students. The advantage of this is that no time is lost while awaiting official transcripts and other reviews by academic committees, particularly where everything is likely to be confirmed in the end.

Upon official acceptance, an Enrollment Agreement is signed and the individualized Study Plan is designed and approved by faculty and student. Once approved, all expectations for the entire program are known and supplied to the student. Educational materials are sent to the student, support information is sent to the faculty or faculty mentor, and the matriculation process is underway.

Part of the instruction which occurs is directly between the student and his or her faculty reader or faculty mentor, with university advisement and support staff, and/or any combination of persons within the faculty pool of subject area experts outside the immediate family. Assessment of activities, evaluations of products and student-faculty interaction are on-going and do not end until the final thesis product has been officially accepted with either a Satisfactory (S), With Distinction (WD), or other pre-approved final grade.

Many older, mature, and self-directed students prefer to have their courses of study identified, then be permitted to be on with their individualized course work.

Bachelor Challenge Exam/tm and Certificate Students

Since 1976 older adults with three or more years of earned college credit, but with no degree, have been able to qualify for the Bachelor's Challenge Examination/tm, copyrighted and pioneered by CityUnivLA. The BA Challenge Exam must be taken in person by applicants who (a) have been accepted, (b) paid the Annual Tuition, and (c) report in a timely manner to sit for the 14 hour Examination. Students may request a major based on their "official transcripts" from other schools, and earn either one year's worth of college credit (30 sem/45 qtr credits), or "failing" to adequately demonstrate a sufficient level of competency, for any reason, are awarded only 22.5 credits and must complete a 'thesis paper' before the BA/BS degree will be awarded.

Certificate students complete the equivalent of 25% of a normal degree program over a period of from three months to one year.

Subject areas are also determined by prior transcript credits.  Can you qualify?